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See also "Wi-Fi" meaning any Internet access now. Or "screen saver" meaning the desktop wallpaper.
by function_seven 4y ago
See also "Wi-Fi" meaning any Internet access now. Or "screen saver" meaning the desktop wallpaper.
- treeman79 4y agoInternet is down! Umm no it’s fine. Shows me Facebook not working. Umm that’s just Facebook down. So the internet is down! After a few rounds sure. The entire Internet is down. I’m going to go play an online game.
- netsharc 4y agoA pet peeve I've had to grow out of is the missing word "connection" when people say "The Internet is down".
- fijiaarone 4y agoSo you don’t believe in technological solipsism?
- planede 4y agoThe web server is down! - Sales guy
- Handytinge 4y agoI think you mean "the website is down!" https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
- hosteur 4y agoHuh? I have never encountered those.
- xen2xen1 4y agoMy children complain the wifi is down when their ethernet cable is broken. They say that AFTER THEY TELL ME IT'S BROKEN. This is not just a meme, they should know better, and are very unhappy on WiFi, but still tend to call all internet Wi-Fi.
- sp332 4y agoThere was an incident years ago with a library offering wired Ethernet for laptops, and the sign said "wired wifi connection". I'm not sure it's really that common.
- naniwaduni 4y agowifi but the wi stands for wired
- drdec 4y agoAnd what does the "fi" stand for?
- krallja 4y agoThe same thing it stands for in "WiFi."
- whatshisface 4y agoWIres For Information
- nocman 4y agoFrom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi > The name Wi-Fi, commercially used at least as early as August 1999, was coined by the brand-consulting firm Interbrand. The Wi-Fi Alliance had hired Interbrand to create a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." > The Wi-Fi Alliance used the advertising slogan "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" for a short time after the brand name was created, and the Wi-Fi Alliance was also called the "Wireless Fidelity Alliance Inc" in some publications. Elsewhere I've seen that it was chosen because of its similarity to HiFi - which is short for "High Fidelity" (regarding audio equipment): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fidelity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fidelity > High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound. It is important to audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has inaudible noise and distortion, and a flat (neutral, uncolored) frequency response within the human hearing range. However, there seems to be a lot of debate as to whether the 'Fi' in WiFi was ever fully accepted to mean "Fidelity". So pretty much it seems marketing people liked the way "WiFi" sounded, so they used it.
- LeoPanthera 4y agoI have. Often. It's probably not common in tech circles but "desktop", "wallpaper", and "screen saver" are often used interchangeably. "Menu bar", "dock", "toolbar", "menu", and other similar terms are used more or less at random. It's simply not common for the average user to know the names of UI components.
- darkerside 4y agoI'm clear on the first set but will cop to not having thought much about which of those is which in the second set.
- marcosdumay 4y agoI've seen the ones on the second set meaning completely different things from one application or environment to another. Even switching the meaning between themselves.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoI was about to say that confusing the first two makes perfect sense because it's been a long time since the Desktop has had any real purpose beyond displaying a background image. Then I realised that the kind of people we're talking about probably have a shortcut for every single application they've ever installed on their desktop and have no idea how to delete them.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoIt's been an equally long period since screensavers had any actual purpose, being replaced by power saving features and screens without burn-in.
- dontlaugh 4y agoThey're still somewhat useful with OLEDs, although even there turning the screen off is sometimes better.
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- dspillett 4y agoI've certainly heard both. For a lot of people all their connected devices at home are wireless: smart devices, phones, many have laptops rather than desktops, tablets, …, and while out the connect to other wi-fi networks. It is easy to circulate WiFi and cellular data access, and if you don't use much or any wired networking at home all your normal network access is therefore WiFi. Screensaver as wallpaper is more rare but I have heard it, and have done for some time (I know non-technical people who have used wallpaper and screen saver wrong for many years, going back to when fancy screen savers were more common than simply powering off, either calling both by one name or just using them randomly). More common these days though is people simply not knowing the term, except to confuse it with a physical screen protector.
- madamelic 4y agoMy favorite one was somewhere on Reddit where someone bought a house and was asking how to rip out the Ethernet so they could install Wi-Fi. Thankfully everyone was like "NO. Don't do that, here's how to install a wireless router to your ethernet setup"
- NikolaNovak 4y agoYour family must be very different than mine! (and coworkers too:) I Have frequently heard phrase at work "you plug into here to get wifi". My family and in laws absolutely positively do not understand the difference between wifi and internet. In particular, the idea that they may be connected to wifi but not have internet is an alien, incomprehensible notion. It depends who you hang around with. Computer professionals understand the difference. Most others do not as they don't need to - empirically, to majority of population, wifi IS internet (as opposed to cell phones, of course, which use "data":)
- fijiaarone 4y agoWiFi is the blue ‘e’ on my screensaver.
- foobarbecue 4y agoAaaugh. You just summarized all the frustration of trying to help my family with technology.
- willcipriano 4y agoI hear stuff like "Comcast offers the fastest wifi for your gaming needs" anytime I am accidentally exposed to ads.
- raisin_churn 4y agoAssuming most people use the combo modem/router (WAP, technically, since this entire thread is an exercise in pedantry) provided by their ISP, this makes sense from a non-technical user's perspective, if Comcast always ships hardware with the latest Wifi spec. Of course, you need a whole mess of asterisks after that, because I don't think I own a single client device with Wifi 6E, plus network contention, time sharing, etc. Gamers should do what I do and plug a wire thingy from their computer to their Wifi thingy.
- chaxor 4y agoOk, I found a hanger wire in my closet and have plugged one end to my computer power hole and the other into my wifi thingy power hole. Now what? - someone in a much to near future
- HankB99 4y agoThe CPU is that box that the monitor and keyboard connect to. :-/
- 13of40 4y agoI could be wrong, but I think back in the day the computer monitor was the whole system for debugging and viewing the state of a running computer (which is why the debugger on an Apple II is called a monitor, for example) but now we just use it to mean the physical screen.
- Eleison23 4y agoI'm not sure about that. CRT monitor were a relatively late addition to terminal devices. Traditional terminals were hardcopy printers; they printed the output you received onto paper.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoJust three days ago, professional streamer Hakos Baelz made this exact mistake. ...and then had to be told that the cable you plug into the back of a landline telephone isn't just a power connector. Sadly, I doubt we'll ever know how she thought telephones actually worked.
- Cyberdog 4y agoI think she was playing up most of her zoomerisms during that stream to play off Vesper's boomer character. I think. But who knows.
- vincent-manis 4y ago20mA current loop?