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673 points bluebirdfirewin | 4 comments | 06 Feb 25 07:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Edd314159 ◴[06 Feb 25 13:40 UTC] No.42962182[source]▶
“Paper Apps” seems like an overly snobby and infantilizing term for something we already had a term for: Puzzle Books / Notebooks.
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1. addandsubtract ◴[06 Feb 25 13:56 UTC] No.42962330[source]▶
"Apps" is just our current Zeitgeist term for products. Facebook, Reddit, newspaper... are now "apps". You don't have to like it (I don't either), but just like the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept, "app" has transcended the phone realm.
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2. zmgsabst ◴[06 Feb 25 14:04 UTC] No.42962409[source]▶
“Meme” predates the internet, with both animal/comic captions as a means of culture and popular jokes/concepts being examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

3. Retr0id ◴[06 Feb 25 14:07 UTC] No.42962434[source]▶
> the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept

It's actually the other way around, "meme" existed in the general sense for many years before internet-image-macro-memes became a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Dawkins

4. floydnoel ◴[06 Feb 25 14:13 UTC] No.42962490[source]▶
sure, let's take advice about words from the person who doesn't know the definition of the ones they are using.