The Top Ten Internet Buzzwords of All Time

05/03/2006 by CNET.com
CNET.com has put together a list of the The Top Ten Internet Buzzwords of All Time. Check out the list below.
1

Dot-bomb

Dot-bomb
Dot-bombA Dot-com company, or simply a dot-com, is a company which does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that uses the popular top-level domain, '. ***


2

New economy

New economy
New economyNew Economy was a term coined in late 1990s by pundits to describe what some thought was an evolution of the United States and other developed countries from an industrial/manufacturing-based wealth producing economy into a service sector asset based economy from globalization and currency manipulation by governments and their central banks ***


3

Mindshare

Mindshare
MindshareMind share is the amount of attention required by something and the time spent thinking about something ***


4

Paradigm shift

Paradigm shift
Paradigm shiftParadigm shift is the term first used by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science ***


5

Bandwidth

Bandwidth
BandwidthBandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower cutoff frequencies of for example a filter, a communication channel or a signal spectrum, and is typically measured in hertz ***


6

Eyeballs

Eyeballs
EyeballsEyes are organs of vision that detect light ***


7

Offline

Offline
OfflineThe terms on-line and off-line have specific meanings with respect to computer technology and telecommunication ***


8

Brick-and-mortar

Brick-and-mortar
Brick-and-mortarBrick and mortar can simply refer to any company that possesses a building for operations ***


9

Y2K

Y2K
Y2KThe Year 2000 problem was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000 ***


10

Sync-up

Sync-up
Sync-upSync-up ***