DEFINITION: n. An old media format that is no longer popular or easily accessible, such as floppy disks, VHS tapes or stone tablets. v. tr. To try to access data stored in an old-fashioned media format, especially it requires the use archaic technology and/or protocols.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Gadjettison: /gadg jettison/ Gadgets evolve so quickly, that those of today, are outdated tomorrow, and become gadjettisons. Etymology: GADGETS, JETTISON.
GADGETS – machines, objects, things. JETTISON – throw out, get rid of, abandon, discard, ditch, chuck, dump, chuck out Created by: silveryaspen.
Comments on Gadjettison:
galwaywegian, 2009-01-07: 12:05:00
Egad! another top word!Jabberwocky, 2009-01-07: 14:23:00
great combo
Yestersurf: /YES-tur-serf/ 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 Created by: Mustang.
Comments on Yestersurf:
Jabberwocky, 2009-01-07: 14:26:00
‘yestersurf – all my problems were on different turf’silveryaspen, 2009-01-07: 16:04:00
Oh the nostalgia … of yestersurf and the song “yesterday” … I’m off on another trip down memory lane!Nosila, 2009-01-07: 19:04:00
Yestersurf…all my nightmares looked like Smurf…Mustang, 2009-01-07: 22:11:00
Goes really good with yesterturf
Obsolution: /äbsÉ™loÅshÉ™n/ William loved old things. He loved books and vinyl records. He had the largest collection of 8-tracks of anybody he knew. When he snapped at one of his friends for teasing him he felt bad and decided to talk to his priest for guidance. After all who would understand him better than someone who’s job was based on a book. When he got to church, he found that the confessional was now a cyber-cafe with a library of inspirational CDs and lessons on how to text the priest. Instead of absolution he got obsolution. Etymology: obsolete (no longer produced or used; out of date)absolution (formal release from guilt, obligation, or punishment.) Created by: artr.
Comments on Obsolution:
Nosila, 2009-01-07: 19:00:00
Obsolutley fabulous!
Antiquatech: /AN ti KWAY tek/ This pile of old computers, calculators and beta and VHS players can all go in the trash because they are antiquatech. Etymology: ANTIQUATED: old-fashioned and no longer suitable for modern conditions.
TECH: short form of technology Created by: kateinkorea.
Comments on Antiquatech:
silveryaspen, 2009-01-07: 14:52:00
So fun to say “An tick wa teck” … sounds like the tick tock of the clock … evokes that feeling that time passes it all by!
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