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News broke over the weekend of a new entity in cyberspace — something called “The Grid” — that’s likely to render today’s internet obsolete. After reading articles like this one and this one. I thought about how this superfast web replacement might change the world’s vocabulary. Below are the Top 10 words and phrases that came to mind related to The Grid:
1. Grid Reaper — The name one gives to any person or organization that causes you to lose access to The Grid ( i.e., “The Grid Reaper strikes again!);
2. Grid Strength — Describes the signal strength of a connection to The Grid;
3. Gridiron — Describes the hardware used to access The Grid;
4. Gridlock — Describes a supposedly-rare instance when The Grid becomes overloaded with traffic;
5. Grid Site — Replaces “web site” to describe an individual’s or group’s presence on The Grid;
6. Gram — The new name given to “spam” on The Grid;
7. GSP — Grid Service Provider;
8. Off The Grid — Describes an instance when someone is disconnected from The Grid;
9. The Griddle’s Hot - Describes a lightning-fast or white-hot connection to The Grid; and
10. Grid ‘n’ Bear It — What one will have to do if promises made by developers of The Grid fail to materialize.
If you have any contributions to make to this list, please do so in the comments section below.
13 responses so far ↓
1 nuke // Apr 7, 2008 at 1:34 pm
gr0n: holgraphic grid pr0n
/mind in the gutter
2 hotoffthepress2 // Apr 7, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Huh?
3 nuke // Apr 7, 2008 at 1:45 pm
just thinking about the number of products and services that will become obsolete overnight makes my mind spin.
An entire new group of grid gazillionaires (”grizillionaire”) will come on to the scene as their companies emerge, causing an investment “bubble” (”gribble”).
Not to be outdone, Bill Gates introduces “micro-grid” licensing software, while open-source developers, or “free-gridders” struggle to keep access and development of the grid free to the public.
4 nuke // Apr 7, 2008 at 1:59 pm
from the Fox article:
“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said.
“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.
Since well over half the web is taken up by sites specializing in porn, or as we call it “pr0n”, I would expect the holographic pron market to thrive on a grid-based system, or “Gron”
5 When the internet becomes obsolete « nuke gingrich // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:05 pm
[...] See also: “The Grid Destined to Change the Language” for the Top Ten words and phrases to expect as “The Grid” emerges and replaces the [...]
6 hotoffthepress2 // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Nuke — Good input!
7 locomotivebreath1901 // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Dang.
I like this. I like this!
I think you’re on to something.
~God bless the English language.
8 robert roels // Apr 7, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Holy Grid! Batman what will they think of next?
A little bit of fun in lingo land.
9 Chris Pallé // Apr 7, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Heh, funny stuff. Internet Addiction will have a new name, it’ll be “The Grip”
As in, “huh, yeah man… I was like, going to go to work today, but like, the grid has the grip on me.”
When you finally get Off-The-Grid, you start to have “gripbacks” in which you’re thinking about your next tweet or email or blog post or 40TB video download.
Of course, extended exposure to the Grid can result in Gridbites- the sores you get from ignoring personal hygiene while trippin’ on the Grid for too long…
Okay, that’s enough. Seriously, though. IMO, it’s just hype. Remember Internet 2? For what need will average consumers have of this kind of bandwidth? Any hardware (e.g. gaming platforms) that will actually be able to take any advantage won’t be available for years.
10 hotoffthepress2 // Apr 7, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Good stuff, Chris!
11 Jay @ OFR // Apr 7, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I’m just curious if Al Gore invented this too?
Some kind of highly complex “Al”gridithm?
12 hotoffthepress2 // Apr 7, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Good one, Jay!
13 Frank Hinton // Apr 8, 2008 at 5:47 am
Out Grid- Referring to ebay
McGriddled- A corporate sellout site
Over-Gridded- From the overload of so much massive and easy downloading power
Grid-Skid or Grid-Head- Grid addict, i.e nerd 4.0
Grid-Rock- grid 1.0 streaming music
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