• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    Once again, no they didn’t. Literally just look it up. You have the knowledge of the world at your fingertips.

    The term “sideload” was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically

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

    Had I said “downloading” it wouldn’t have made much sense, would it?

    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Yep, and that definition was definitely what you meant lmfao.

      You’re obviously within spitting distance of the point, you basically spelled it out in your last sentence, just, I don’t know, reread your words slowly?

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      2 hours ago

      listen, I’ve been in technology since before i-drive existed and I’ve never heard of i-drive nor do I care about the vocabulary they used.

      The first time I ever heard the term sideloading was when these mobile stores started using it to make other options sound illegitimate.