In RetroTech: NetLingo Blog

One of my favorite things about tracking internet terms for 30 years now (!) is seeing how the jargon morphs. There are so many words that a...

People ask me all the time, WTF is an NFT?  NFT stands for Non Fungible Token which is an individual, unique digital asset held on the   blo...

Zoom video conferencing software usage exploded in 2020, also known as the "year of the Covid-19 pandemic." It was many people...

It's always interesting to view history in retrospect. The year of 2019 brought about massive changes and in the minds of many people, y...

Brand new? I think not... I'm surprised the following terms were just added in 2019 to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary! According to M...

And like most things that end in "opoly" it's the consumers, who pay the price. What is an oligopoly you ask? It refers to a s...

Well they're finally asking the question: Does Big Tech abuse its power? The federal government has unleashed its full investigative pow...

What a fantastic book review, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, as seen on NPR.com ! I am super impressed with l...

The recent headline "France Approves Tax On Big Tech, And U.S. Threatens To Retaliate" generated  mixed emotions until I drilled ...

Lately I've received a huge influx of online dating jargon so I just had to compile this crazy new Top 50 List of Online Dating Terms!...

Every now and then an article in The Week comes along that feeds my passion for Internet history and ultimately shakes me to the core. And a...