Why do people now call programs and software, apps?

[Rozzy]

And when did this dumb shit start?

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

smartphone niggers started this

 

[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

It all started in 2007...

 

[hl2_linux]

When iOS 2 was released.

 

[Catler]

You can tell someone's age by what the call things, so it's useful in that sense.

Someone calls it a PM? Chances are they remember forums from ye' olden days. They call it a DM? They're younger and infected with Twitter brain rot.

 

[OrionBalls]

Since Visi-Calc. Or, if looking at the history of Jobs, since NeXT.

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

I'd guess that using the word "apps" is so that it's more understandable to the smartphone normies.

 

[SandyCat]

And anything that's uploaded to a server is now called "the cloud"

 

[SmallKiwi]

https://www.eurogamer.net/r-mksc-gba

This review of Mario Kart: Super Circuit from 2001 seems to call the game a "killer app" for the GBA (end of the page). But yeah I've never seen any normies use that term until the 2010's

 

[Night Crawler]

I think about the time smartphones became popular. So the late 2000's early 2010's. I still remember seeing people using flip phones back in like 2010 and 2011. They also call movies and games IP's now. IP stands for intellectual property.

You can tell someone's age by what the call things, so it's useful in that sense.

Someone calls it a PM? Chances are they remember forums from ye' olden days. They call it a DM? They're younger and infected with Twitter brain rot.

What about IM's? They used to be called instant messages back in the AIM and Yahoo chat days.

 

[Catler]

What about IM's? They used to be called instant messages back in the AIM and Yahoo chat days.

An IM is technically different, but I think the same logic generally applies.

 

[Night Crawler]

An IM is technically different, but I think the same logic generally applies.

Not really. It was a way to instantly message people while also being private. It worked the same way as PM's.

 

[Catler]

Not really. It was a way to instantly message people while also being private. It worked the same way as PM's.

Dedicated chat platform vs built in site feature.

 

[Night Crawler]

Dedicated chat platform vs built in site feature.

It's the same thing. There is no difference between messaging someone on Yahoo chat and messaging someone on Twitter. That's all Twitter is. It's a chat platform.

 

[Catler]

It's the same thing. There is no difference between messaging someone on Yahoo chat and messaging someone on Twitter. That's all Twitter is. It's a chat platform.

Strongly disagree, twitter's main selling point is microblogging, not chat.

 

[Meat Target]

You can tell someone's age by what the call things, so it's useful in that sense.

Someone calls it a PM? Chances are they remember forums from ye' olden days. They call it a DM? They're younger and infected with Twitter brain rot.

They're not PMs because they're not private anymore.

 

[Absolutego]

I hate pocket computers and what they've done to the industry so much bros...

 

[Arcade Gannon]

It's short for "application", you fucking posers.

 

[Dan of Steel]

it sounds more appetizing

 

[Tiny Chinaman]

Neuro-linguistic programming