Word: digerati
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Business cards are getting an upgrade for the digital age. Now image-conscious digerati can replace their old paper versions with plastic cards that pop into any CD-ROM drive and play a multimedia presentation. Sold by Digital Card in New York City, the wallet-size CD-ROMs can hold as much as 18 MB of data or 2 1/2 min. of video, and cost $1.50 to $3.50 apiece...
...year-old cofounder of Excite excite.com) the Web's No. 2, "we try harder" search engine, one of those immensely useful sites that search the Internet for pages that contain whatever words or phrases you type in. This week Excite unveils its latest incarnation, centered on what the digerati call "personalization." If you want to stick with Excite's standard service, that's fine. But the more personal data you're willing to feed the site, the more the Net's teeming world of data will come formatted to your individual specifications each time you pay a visit...
From that came the VAIO, an Intel-produced, Sony-designed line of computers introduced last year that hasn't exactly wowed the digerati. Some analysts complain that Sony's PC offers too little value and is priced too high to compete with established makers like Gateway 2000 and Compaq. Sony contends that the VAIO is simply spearheading a long-term attempt to get a lucrative piece of the multimedia home computer market. For that, Sony has much to offer. "The next growth market is digital imaging for PCs," says the Tokyo analyst. "And connecting digital cameras and computers...
...company's lawsuit against three Internet chat-room participants means trouble for the investment digerati (Money Daily...
News spreads quickly and efficiently via E-mail, and when the digerati got wind of Burning Man, something clicked. The pierced and tattooed young Netizens of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area spend their workdays and worknights making little decentralized theaters of do-it-yourself creativity on the World Wide Web. Burning Man and its temporary city are material manifestations of the same creative urge. It was a perfect fit, a perfect way to celebrate a year of laboring on the Internet...