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I am familiar with the term as it was used prior to computers. But the BBC's insistence on qualifying a database as a "cyber-database" in 2015 is gross anachro
by bhauer 11y ago
I am familiar with the term as it was used prior to computers. But the BBC's insistence on qualifying a database as a "cyber-database" in 2015 is gross anachronism the likes of using the phrases "touch-tone phone" or "world-wide web."
- chatmasta 11y agoA more accurate analogy would be using the phrases like "cell phone," which are certainly still commonplace. Adjectives tend to stick around longer than necessary for disambiguation, but that doesn't mean they are useless.
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