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To me "Surfing the internet" is a bit formal but "surfing the net" or "surfing the web" is still a non-cringe thing said at the office and we're a bunch of comp
by zamadatix 3y ago
To me "Surfing the internet" is a bit formal but "surfing the net" or "surfing the web" is still a non-cringe thing said at the office and we're a bunch of computer networking engineers. "Information superhighway" has always been a cliche for me though... but I was quite young in the 90s and it had really died off by the 2000s anyways. Cyber- largely depends on the thing to me. E.g. cyberspace - about neutral, cybersecurity - not at all cringe, cyberculture - cringey, cyberbullying - neutral (as in the term, not the act), cybernetics - usually cringey, cybercafe - cringey/outdated, and so on.
- woooooo 3y ago"Information superhighway" has stuck around for 30 years as the perfect specimen of cringe. If it were less bad, we'd have forgotten it.
- Findecanor 3y ago"Cybernetics" has an actual meaning distinct from anything to do with the Internet, and precedes it by decades. It is about using feedback from sensors to control something. It was based on observations of biological control systems, and creating principles from them for machines. For example using a gyroscope reading in a PID-loop that runs motors to keep a robot steady. The word comes from "Kuber" in Greek, which means "to steer". The Internet-connotation comes from the "Cyberspace" in William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer", where it was supposed to be jacked into the brain: thereby the connection to biological control systems, and thus cybernetics. I personally cringe at most modern uses of "cyber-". The only I don't to is "cyberpunk", which refers to environments and aesthetics as in novels such as Neuromancer.