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DEFINITION: n. An old media format that is no longer popular or easily accessible, such as floppy disks, VHS tapes or stone tablets. v. To try to access data stored in an old-fashioned media format, especially it requires the use archaic technology and/or protocols.
Verboticisms
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Hitechniques
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: hīteknēks
Sentence: Rotary phones, transistor radios, 8-tracks, cassette players, VCRs, dial-up modems... Once the pinnacle of scientific genius, these marvels are now considered hitechniques, ancient relics of technology that has moved on. Some of them still function with a patchwork of adaptations. Most are only good for cannibalizing to keep others of their kind semi-functional.
Etymology: hitech (employing, requiring, or involved in high technology) + antiques (a collectible object such as a piece of furniture or work of art that has a high value because of its considerable age)
Antechque
Created by: justacrosshair
Pronunciation: an-tek
Sentence: "A cassette tape? Sorry, we don't stock antechques."
Etymology: antique (old); tech (man made)
Retronics
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: rhymes with electronics
Sentence: What's with the retronics? You need to get iPhone 17 already
Etymology: Retro + electronics
Retirosaur
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ree ty ro sar
Sentence: When Mary reached 65, she knew it was time to stop working. She had become a retirosaur. She no longer spoke the language of her younger boss and co-workers. She could remember working the teletype, a comptometer and her ancient Underwood typewriter had served her well. She had used a dictionary, a thesaurus, knew how to spell; remember people's names; compose grammatically correct sentences and do complex mathematical computations in her head. The staff loved her, but found her to be a quaint walking, talking museum on legs. Yes, Mary had worked for 45 years at the same place and the reason she had been kept on this long was because she knew how to do each job well and she knew where all the bodies were buried!
Etymology: Retire (Withdraw from circulation or participation; cease to work) & Dinosaur (any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era)
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COMMENTS:
"Retirosaur!" Just like the Little Red Hen, let Mary say "Not I!" It's sad we can't make the good things that are in the past, more a part of the good things in the present ... glean the best of the both! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-07: 15:48:00
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Antechwhatee
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ann teh wot eee
Sentence: the sound of the antechwhatee scratched along, every now and then receding so you could make out a strangulated voice crooning something about gramma.
Etymology: antiquity, tech, what
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COMMENTS:
What a witty clever pun! Nice one! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-14: 23:52:00
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Retrosurf
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ret - ro - surf
Sentence: Having only their granddad's discarded computer to rely on Delbert and Javier had no choice but to resort to retrosurfing method of finding information.
Etymology: Retro + surf
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COMMENTS:
What a lot of retrosurfing has been done here today! Great angle! Great word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-14: 18:41:00
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Betablock
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bay ta blok
Sentence: When Sammy tried to put his dvd in Grandpa's old video machine, he found it was in betablock mode. No wonder Grandpa had heart trouble. Sammy was confused and felt like someone travelling back in a time machine...Grandpa's videos were on Beta, his music on 8 Track, his movies were on 8 mm, his tv was in black & white and his telephone had a rotary dial. No wonder Grandpa was so old...it took him ages to get in contact with the outside world!
Etymology: Beta (old video format, before VHS) & Beta Blocker (any of various drugs used in treating hypertension or arrhythmia; decreases force and rate of heart contractions by blocking beta-adrenergic receptors of the autonomic nervous system)
Stereolith
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: ster'/e/o/lith
Sentence: Jacob cringed in embarrassment at every soccer game. When would his parents get rid of that stereolithic camera they had and get with the digital age? It was completely humiliating... especially when the flip flash blinded his teammates just as they tried to score a goal.
Etymology: stereo - three dimensional (as in stereoscopic photography & stereotype print); also stereophonic sound reproduction + monolith - something formed of a single slab of stone
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COMMENTS:
Innovative etymology and word. Well done! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-14: 18:03:00
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Protogram
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Pro-toe-gram
Sentence: Still using your brain to think? It's such a protogram. Try google, you Neanderthal.
Etymology: Proto(prefix meaning earliest form of something) + Program
Yestersurf
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: YES-tur-serf
Sentence: Having only a discarded very ancient computer, their father's first machine, to rely on Lyndal and Terrance had no choice but to resort to yestersurf methods of finding information.
Etymology: Blend of yesterday and surf
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COMMENTS:
'yestersurf - all my problems were on different turf' - Jabberwocky, 2009-01-07: 14:26:00
Oh the nostalgia ... of yestersurf and the song "yesterday" ... I'm off on another trip down memory lane! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-07: 16:04:00
Yestersurf...all my nightmares looked like Smurf... - Nosila, 2009-01-07: 19:04:00
Goes really good with yesterturf - Mustang, 2009-01-07: 22:11:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James
stache - 2008-03-14: 01:22:00
paleodata
stache - 2008-03-14: 01:32:00
oops-wrong box.
arrrteest - 2008-03-14: 11:20:00
A few years ago, while giving a state assessment to 5th graders, there was a passage about artifacts. Included with the clay pipes and broken pottery shards was a section on the record and the record player. I wasn't ready to accept that then, but now I'm somewhat resigned to the fact that it is so.
silveryaspen - 2008-03-14: 17:03:00
Congratulations, Yellowbird and James for the definition and cartoon, that has evoked a lot of deep thinking. Kudos to all you erudite deep-thinkers ... for your words, comments, and wonderful way of uplifting each other with these wonderful interchanges. You've expanded the horizons of my thinking!
silveryaspen - 2008-03-14: 18:43:00
Three cheers for all the fun words created, too! Three cheers for all the trips down the various memory lanes!
arrrteest - 2008-03-14: 20:24:00
Lol,, MEMORY lanes
Thank goodness our memory lanes are still working. I was afraid they may have become non-compatible due to the upgrade to Windows Vista. Thank you Silvery, for showing us the way. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James
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