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Which words originated in your birth year?
- colinbartlett 13y ago1982: "downloadable". This word already seems dead. Who says that?
- ryanbrunner 13y agoI was shocked to see "text messaging" and "smartphone" as words introduced in the 80's. I would have thought those were 90's words at least (for "smartphone" i would have guessed the 00's in fact.)
- jaredsohn 13y agovia some wikipedia research on "smart phone": The first smartphone (available in 1994) was the Simon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon), although the term was coined a little later. It could send and receive faxes, e-mails and cellular pages through its touch screen display and included many applications such as address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, games, electronic note pad, handwritten annotations and standard and predictive touchscreen keyboards. It had exactly one third-party app (which cost $3K). :)
- leif 13y agobeatbox couldn't be more thrilled by that
- solistice 13y agoyou beatbox?
- kroger 13y agoGeez I'm old. My word is "Internet".
- pge 13y agoI was surprised to see that in 1974 - earlier than I expected.
- DrewRWx 13y agoWoo, crowd-surfing!
- ArekDymalski 13y ago"gazillion" well, that explains a lot of things in my life ;)
- Angostura 13y agoCyberculture - 1963, amazingly.
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- adventured 13y agoFoodie - 1980
- A1kmm 13y agoIt looks like some of them are only the way the word was used in that particular part of speech. For example, orbit is listed as 1946 as a verb - but the word was used for much longer as a noun.
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- protomyth 13y agolaugh-out-loud for 1970 Yep, that explains quite a bit.
- bhrgunatha 13y agoI'm a computernik, my wife is a megastar.
- arocks 13y agoWouldn't a table have been a much better way of presenting this information? Also the user interface is a horrible timeline that gives no feedback while you mouse-over.
- scotty79 13y agoFirst! ... I mean: bagsy! 1979
- NAFV_P 13y agoWhat, nobody take a chill pill till '81?