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To echo what others have said, the practice of big data has become so normalized that the language term "big data" -- as a new thing to call attention to itself
by jasode 4y ago
To echo what others have said, the practice of big data has become so normalized that the language term "big data" -- as a new thing to call attention to itself -- is not needed as much as before.
Similar language history that happened to terms like "dynamic web" or "interactive web". In the late 1990s when Javascript started to be heavily used, we called attention to that new trend the "dynamic web". Today, the "interactive web" phrase has mostly gone away. But that doesn't mean that Javascript-enabled web pages were a fad. On the contrary, we're using more Javascript than ever before. We just take it as a given that the web is interactive.
Examples of rise & fall of "interactive web" in language use that peaked around 2004:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dynamic+web&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdynamic%20web%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cdynamic%20web%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dynamic+web&ye...
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=interactive+web&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cinteractive%20web%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cinteractive%20web%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=interactive+we...
- ghaff 4y agoThat's a big part. It's also the case that a lot of (but not all) of the technologies associated with Big Data were found to be less than broadly useful (many of the NoSQL database technologies, arguably Hadoop, etc.)
- rg111 4y agoI am too young to remember "information superhighway". But just the transfer of text files over HTTP or some other protocol was a buzzword some day!
- pentagrama 4y agoResponsive web design is other of those.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoResponsive web design, mobile-first design, progressive web-app, there's a lot of phrases that have done the rounds over the past decade or so. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) was a thing for a while too, early drag-and-drop and other such interactive things on a website.
- yen223 4y agoRemember "multimedia" computers? Those were the days