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Like a few other tech terms, it's got a jocular etymology. People saw something developing that wasn't "hard" and it wasn't "soft" so it was "firm". Likewise,
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Like a few other tech terms, it's got a jocular etymology. People saw something developing that wasn't "hard" and it wasn't "soft" so it was "firm".
Likewise, we began to "load" stuff, not "up" or "down", but to the "side".
A googol (the number) is something uttered by a mathematician's toddler.
I'm sure that programmers were chuckling when we went from "bits" to "bytes" but we hardly even think about that anymore.
So why not, let's have squishyware, and viscousware, and stickyware, and put them next to our vaporware?
- sidpatil 3y ago> Likewise, we began to "load" stuff, not "up" or "down", but to the "side". In the early or mid 2000s, I remember using a file hosting service which advertised sideloading as a feature — by that, they meant you could paste in a URL of a file on the Web, and the service would download the file directly into your storage space, skipping the need to download to disk first then upload from there.
- FroshKiller 3y agoI think the more common term for that is transloading.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoSeems to be primarily a warehouse/shipping term, but OK. "File transfer" -- too generic?