Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...room, hunched over Virtual Boy, Nintendo's long-awaited, low-cost virtual-reality rig for Everyman. Or Everyboy. Or Everygirl. Whatever. The women are learning how to demonstrate it, fooling around with a prototype of a boxing video game. ("Face down in the goggles, please. That's it. Click here to throw a right, there to throw a left, and don't forget to duck!") But hurry. It's 7:30 a.m., and the wide glass doors are about to swing open on the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, the equivalent of opening night for the $56 billion home-electronics industry...
...hands-on tests, the system rarely tests your patience. Click on a selection, and the network responds almost immediately. It feels "alive" -- almost too much so. Whatever category you select starts promoting itself immediately, pitching a product or showing a movie trailer. But if you don't like what you see, you can always move on. Hitting the "carousel" button, for example, takes you back to the main menu. There's also a handy "skip forward 10 minutes" button, which turned out to be perfect for finding Elle MacPherson's nude scenes in Sirens -- without having to sit through...
...find your way around the Internet if you don't have a clue? The creators of NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois provided the map -- and the compass -- for anyone who can point and click a mouse. The Mosaic team then went private. Its latest, improved version, called Netscape, has quickly become the navigator of choice for dedicated Net surfers. Speedier and more responsive (users love the big red Stop button), it can also be used to order goods from many budding online shopping centers...
...masks the complexities of the underlying protocols, removing the need for users to know the difference between ftp, HTTP, gopher, and WAIS, for example," he says. "All the user has to know how to do is click...
Similarly, if a user were to click on the hypertext word "chickwich," the computer might bring up a picture of a chickwich or perhaps the sound of a Harvard student saying "Mmm...good...