• groucho
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    6 days ago

    It’s good to see the old ways still being followed. We were calling them Microslop back when Windows ME released.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days ago

      I… don’t think that’s true. Google trends also confirms this is a new name invented now because of the word slop trending, but I welcome being proven wrong.

      I remember we had lots of variations like Micro$oft, Microshaft, Microhard, Microshit, Microsloth, etc.

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        6 days ago

        Concur, ‘slop’ as a common word is pretty new.

        We had the names for all the potentially frustating platforms, deserved or not. I recall:

        • AIX (just pronounce as ‘aches’)
        • PHUX
        • Slowlaris