Cookies

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Definition

Small tracking files that websites place on your browser to monitor your behavior and prove that privacy is dead. Sweet surveillance baked right into your browsing experience.

Example Usage

I blocked all cookies and suddenly the internet became 30% slower but 99% more respectful of my privacy choices.

Source: Web technology terminology

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scrolling

The perpetual up-and-down or side-to-side motion you make to view content that doesn't fit on one screen, which is basically everything in the modern digital age. Before touch screens made it intuitive, we had scroll bars and mouse wheels; now we just swipe endlessly through social media feeds until we forget what we were looking for. In chat rooms, it also refers to the annoying practice of flooding conversations with text to push other messages out of view.

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robustness

Tech and business jargon for how well a system withstands stress, failures, or unexpected inputs without falling apart like a house of cards. A robust system keeps chugging along when things go wrong, whether that's handling bad data, server crashes, or users doing incredibly stupid things. It's the engineering equivalent of building a car that still runs after being driven through a zombie apocalypse.

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camcorder

A portable electronic device that combines a video camera and recorder into a single unit, allowing consumers to record their own video footage without separate equipment. Camcorders democratized personal video recording starting in the 1980s and remained popular until smartphones made them obsolete.

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Zip drive

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