{"id":9302,"date":"2006-11-09T22:01:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2006-11-09T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:01:39","slug":"word-on-the-street-november-9-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9302","title":{"rendered":"Word on the Street. November 9, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/WotS3.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> <b>The Cloud<\/b> &#8211; Synonym for the Internet. Coined because of all those network illustrations in books that frequently show the Internet in a network topology as one of those grade-school-simple clouds. <\/p>\n<p> <b>AMVs<\/b> &#8211; Short for &#8220;Anime Music Videos,&#8221; amateur videos that take excerpts from Japanese anime and mash them together with a popular piece of music. The term has been around for a while but YouTube has made them all the rage. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Ratpacking<\/b> &#8211; Gangbanger term for swarming the target of a gang assault using mobile phones and two-way pagers to coordinate the attack. <\/p>\n<p> <b>Floats<\/b> &#8211; The latest in painfully annoying advertising; those little ad boxes that hover above the content and won&#8217;t go away until you dismiss them. Especially insidious because they&#8217;re not separate windows but part of the Javascript code within the underlying page (thereby bypassing pop-up blocking tech). <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cloud &#8211; Synonym for the Internet. Coined because of all those network illustrations in books that frequently show the Internet in a network topology as one of those grade-school-simple clouds. AMVs &#8211; Short for &#8220;Anime Music Videos,&#8221; amateur videos that take excerpts from Japanese anime and mash them together with a popular piece of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word on the Street. November 9, 2006&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}