On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Jeff Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>        Thank you. But I think it's only recently become common. I've been
> online since...I don't remember when, maybe 93'. And only in the last few
> months have I seen this term posted all over the place.


I have only seen it used commonly in the past two or three years.  But then
I read magazines and blogs about this kind of thing.


> But I guess every so often computer users get bored and have to either make
> things up or resurrect old terms. The last time I was confused about a
> search term was the "Bolian"(sp) search.


Man, Boolean searches are older than computers.  I did Boolean searches in
college in 1978.  And Boolean algebra is much, much older.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own


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