A strange thought occured to me lately. (I know, what else is new?) Despite all the bizarre l33t-speak being created all the time, I think computing technology may soon put us in a minor "crisis of slang."
It's all about storage space. For a while, megabytes were the "impossibly huge standard you'll never fill." And we could easily call them "megs" for short. Then came gigabytes, or "gigs" for short -- the new "impossibly huge standard you'll never fill." But of course, we will. (Would something about More's Law be appropriate here?)
Well, next comes terrabytes, and I'm probably making too much out of too little here, but I don't feel the shorthand works here. What do we call them for short? "Terras?" "Terrs?"
"Man, that data went on a terr!"
3 comments:
how about TB's (TeeBees?) or just T's?
this is the type of thing that somebody will probably try to copyright, like "Y2K" or "TCG" just to lord it over everybody who wants to use an abreviation...
the mole
I think the moleis right (hi Mole), it could really come down to the short hand for Terrabites
To be pedantic, Moore's law is technically only about the amount of transistors in a microchip doubling every 18 months. But it has been adapted to more generally refer to rate of technological development.
No Veronica Mars commentary this week?
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