Technology develops fast, products are packaged up with an image and name we "get" and feel comfy with. Airbrush is another one. How many can you name?
2007-03-22 23:54:58 · 10 answers · asked by CT 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
cookies
trojan
bug
notepad
monitor (i thought thats what hospitals did to patients)
home (on interent)
refresh
wallet
shopping basket
checkout
cut
paste
2007-03-23 00:05:00 · answer #1 · answered by dollymixture 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These names are analogies that abstract away from the underlying complexity of the things they describe. They have become useful, popular and numerous because they allow non-technically minded people to understand the general function or utility of a tool, object or system by relating it to something that they already understand and feel comfortable with.
A window is a logical area of the computer display that displays information about a particular data source. The window can be manipulated to allow or terminate access to the information that it represents on the display. Try explaining that to your gran. But if we just say "it's a window, it shows you things and you can open and close it, just like a window" then suddenly she can understand.
Computers are massively complex, it almost beggars belief that they exist and work at all. The decades of development, innovation and technical mastery by huge numbers of the most intelligent people on the planet has created machines that are so complex that no single person can understand them from top to bottom.
Until the early 90's, computers were scary, specialist tools; not for use by the general public. Now they are integrated into western society completely, and this is mostly due to people creating ways for lay persons to understand them. These "borrowed" words are one, important form of this.
2007-03-23 00:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by silicon_rain 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Folder
File
Button
Document
2007-03-22 23:58:24 · answer #3 · answered by Marky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Web
Chip
memory (nearly forgot that one)
Drive
Pc
Tower
surf
ID
Multi - task
Mail
search
on
off
boot
log
help
2007-03-23 00:08:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Log on.
Virus.
2007-03-22 23:57:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"PC Load Letter"? What the **** does that mean?
2007-03-23 00:00:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
file, folder, keyboard, link, site, memory...
2007-03-22 23:58:02 · answer #7 · answered by ehc11 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
port
2007-03-22 23:57:09 · answer #8 · answered by Narky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
heres 2 more:
WEB
NET
2007-03-22 23:59:30 · answer #9 · answered by MellowMan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chip,byte,bus
2007-03-23 00:05:10 · answer #10 · answered by warr31 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋