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Did you get your Limewire Wrapped? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what to tell you. It certainly wasn't a word I or any one I spoke to used to describe programs.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    No one you knew read PC Magazine? There was an article from 1989 (and quite a few more in the early to mid 90s).

    OTOH, I do agree that "program" was more common than "application".

    Mostly -- your comment about "no apps" dredged up the phrase "killer apps" in my brain somehow.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Nope. I was a kid around the 80s/90s and we had no dedicated computer teachers; although universities probably had access to those types of publications. That information was pretty niche in Australia for regular people, especially kids, and we were always at least 2 years behind the US on everything.

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