Another one that sometimes gets blank stares..clockwise..

Might be one of those phrases that we start using but no one know why.

Before clocks did they say "sundialwise"?

 

Contact wetting.

I remember seeing Cerenkov radiation in a high voltage vacuum tube in a PA amp.

 

Do phone techs still use the "butinski"?

 

The slide rule was mentioned earlier. The really cool guys owned a circular slide rule.

 

DCE - Data Communicating Equipment
DTE - Data Terminal Equipment

 

HyperTerminal

 

Thick ethernet
Thin ethernet

 

HyperTerminal

HyperDocs and HyperText

Wait, they're still in use. They're now called web pages and links.

 

Hello,

How about cheapernet or 10base2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2

Bertus

 

If this thread slows down, Maybe @#12 could start a thread about words/phrases that we wished would become antique - soon.

You can have that one. I'll start it off with, "Twerking".
The use of , "should of" instead of, "should have".

 

Null Modem.
DCE DTE.
Max.

 

Here's one I saw yesterday while reading an article, "bailiwick" I don't know if that word is antique or just rarely used.

Sure sounds funny though

 

DARPANET...

 

Fidonet.... How about IRC... internet relay chat ...

 

Hypertext is still used...after all http means hypertext transfer protocal....

 

Xmodem, ymodem, and other dialup transfer protocals

 

May already have been done.
Scope hood.
The thing you used to put on an analog scope to keep the light out so you could see a single trace.
I think I still have a crease in my forehead from one.

 

Xmodem, ymodem, and other dialup transfer protocals

I usually spell it 'protocols'.

 

Me too...except when im typing on this damm phone.....

 

Typing on a phone?

Seems like only 20 years ago I was typing on a typewriter.

Which reminds me...the qwerty keyboard was originally designed to make people so slow at typing that the machine could avoid jamming. It's still working for me.
I haven't had to pull the (metal things with letters on them) down for...decades.