RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agoIt's been 13 years of "no, you can't do in the phone's webbrowser the thing you can do in a PC's webbrowser, you need to install a fucking app". People just accepted it. The fuckers accepted it.message-squaremessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1319arrow-down10
arrow-up1319arrow-down1message-squareIt's been 13 years of "no, you can't do in the phone's webbrowser the thing you can do in a PC's webbrowser, you need to install a fucking app". People just accepted it. The fuckers accepted it.RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square120fedilink
minus-squareStrayce@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·edit-21 year agoThe l33t w4r3z d00dz were calling applications ‘appz’ since at least the '90s. Then there was that brief period where Apple tried to claim “app store” was short for “apple store” so no one else could say it…
minus-squareculpritus [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·1 year agoActually the proper nomenclature of the time was ‘warez’.
minus-squarenat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 year agonot enough ascii in this comment tbh
minus-squareculpritus [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·1 year agomarkdown killed the ascii star
minus-squareStrayce@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoSorry, it’s a regional dialect.
minus-squareRai@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year ago“What region?” “…Usenet.” “I…RC.”
minus-squarestewie3128 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoThat is our word and you have no right to use it
minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoWhen I was a kid, I thought it was pronounced WHERE-AZ.
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year ago Then there was that brief period where Apple tried to claim “app store” was short for “apple store” so no one else could say it… I’m only surprised they didn’t succeed.
The l33t w4r3z d00dz were calling applications ‘appz’ since at least the '90s. Then there was that brief period where Apple tried to claim “app store” was short for “apple store” so no one else could say it…
Actually the proper nomenclature of the time was ‘warez’.
not enough ascii in this comment tbh
markdown killed the ascii star
Sorry, it’s a regional dialect.
“What region?”
“…Usenet.”
“I…RC.”
That is our word and you have no right to use it
When I was a kid, I thought it was pronounced WHERE-AZ.
I’m only surprised they didn’t succeed.