A Requiem for the Bookmark: Refresh That, Favor This
From time to time, when teaching students about the Internet, I catch myself telling students to “hit reload” or suggesting that they “bookmark that.”
These are Netscape-era terms, and while Internet Explorer is dominant now, I can’t seem to unlearn those terms.
It’s a simple matter to correct myself and say, “Sorry, I meant, ‘hit refresh,'” but saying ‘Add it to My Favorites” is clunky, and telling them to “favor it” is meaningless.
Microsoft uses “bookmark” to refer to something completely different.
Similar:
A masked, socially distant museum visit. So nice to get away from syllabuses and email for...
Ford built about a half dozen of the...
Aesthetics
Haiku'da Been a Spam Filter
Latest weapon against junk e-mail: poetr...
Cyberculture
What Can You Do With An English Degree? | Seton Hill University
One of our seniors interviewed recent gr...
Academia
“I don’t know how that Jerz guy thinks he’s going to procure an entire library in the midd...
“I don’t know how that Jerz guy thinks h...
Academia
U.S.S. Requin -- Extended Tour of the Cold War Submarine at the Carnegie Science Center
Soon after WWII began, the USS Requin be...
Culture
Dead metaphor alert, as far as the Associated Press is concerned
Other signs of the digital age: we don't...
Books
My students who never used Netscape respond with blank stares when I say “bookmark.” I do think it’s a better term than. Favoritize?
For some reason, “bookmark” has stuck as the term for saving the url of a page, perhaps partially because saying it’s a “favorite” is to vague, and “Add it to your favorites” is to clunky and to vague (favorites? what does that have to do with a web page?) Perhaps you should just always use “bookmark” – everyone seems to know what that means. :-)