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What’s one word to prove you lived trough the 90’s? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Krulsprietje@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mom@nom.mom 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Baud. Maybe kilobauds.. That and "da bomb" are very memorable to me from then...

[–] Krulsprietje@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

For a age of pre internet (for the masses) we sure had a lot of unique words :)

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't remember kilobaud being a word. I only remember it being a word that was misused for some reason. Or maybe just disfavored against an actual unit. Like it was equivalent to like some small unit, and got outgrown quickly.

Like when going from bits per second to kilobits per second, I think hair was a single word that meant bits per second, but was not a literal unit, so kilobaud didn't make sense, whereas kilobits did.

At least that's how I remember it off hand, could be wrong.

[–] mom@nom.mom 1 points 1 year ago

It may have been misused at some point, but "baud" was a word long before the internet, and I distinctly remember my modem at the time using the word baud on the box. I was just a teenager, so I'm sure I was missing key information. It was used, tho.

Here, this is proving us both right:

If your modem-to-modem connection is at 14400 bps, it's going to be sending 6 bits per signal transition (or symbol) at 2400 baud. A speed of 28800 bps is obtained by 3200 baud at 9 bits/baud. When people misuse the word baud, they may mean the modem speed (such as 33.6k).

Kilobaud is definitely a word that means a thing. Baud is a literal unit of measure that uses the metric prefixes.

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