In RetroTech: NetLingo Blog
Tracking tech trends and how the internet is changing our lives.
June 27, 2025
NetLingo featured on TechPluto - Tech Talk Demystified: The Ultimate Guide to Online Terms
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The internet’s a wild, chaotic jungle, and if you don’t speak its language, you’re just a lost tourist getting eaten alive. From cryptic acr...
November 30, 2024
NETLINGO 2024 WORD OF THE YEAR: BRAT
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The year 2024 was quite the spectacle! From the Summer Olympics and Taylor Swift to the Solar Eclipse and the Ongoing Wars... still, one thi...
December 15, 2023
NETLINGO 2023 WORD OF THE YEAR: AI
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It's inevitable. Robots are going to take over. In addition to hardware bots, software algorithms have now infiltrated our online lives....
December 15, 2022
NetLingo 2022 Word of the Year: Hybrid Work
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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...
December 18, 2021
NetLingo 2021 Word of the Year: NFT
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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...
December 22, 2020
NetLingo 2020 Word of the Year: Zoom
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Zoom video conferencing software usage exploded in 2020, also known as the "year of the Covid-19 pandemic." It was many people...
December 21, 2019
NetLingo 2019 Word of the Year: woke
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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...
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