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Popular science coined the severing internesia: the growing tendency to forget exactly where in cyberspace you saw a particular piece of information. Internesia is an online forgetfulness appeased by high offline tolerance.
Hold on. “Popular science” did not coin this term, I did.
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Jargon Scout is an irregular TBTF feature that aims to give you advance warning — preferably before Wired Magazine picks it up — of jargon that is just about ready to hatch into the Net’s language. The feature first appeared in TBTF for 1996-02-27 [7]. Dave Birch dropped a useful term, immediately recognizable by even tyro Net surfers, on the e$ mailing list:
> Internesia — the growing tendency to forget exactly where in Cyberspace
> you saw a particular bit of information.From Tasty Bits from the Technology Front: TBTF for 1996-07-21: Internesia:
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