Editor’s note: Internet 2025 became the perfect context for our Co-Founder to unveil a list of internet terminology he has been keeping in secret for many years. He has been quietly adding to this document since a conversation about Webmasters dragged on in the year 2007. We expect to add more items as we continue with this issue. Let us know if we are missing anything by writing here.

Extinct

  • Webmaster
  • Digital Jesus
  • Interactive dept & agency 
  • Blogs
  • Chat rooms

Extinct

  • Webmaster
  • Digital Jesus
  • Interactive dept & agency 
  • Blogs
  • Chat rooms
  • Social media war room
  • AOL keyword
  • Utility
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Code Ninja/Wizard
  • Prompt engineer (dead on arrival)
  • Tweets
  • iPad-only magazine
  • Social networks (replaced by social media)
  • BBM
  • AIM
  • ROFL
  • Facebook apps
  • DAO
  • Portal
  • The World Wide Web
  • Social media war room
  • AOL keyword
  • Utility
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Code Ninja/Wizard
  • Prompt engineer (dead on arrival)
  • Tweets
  • iPad-only magazine
  • Social networks (replaced by social media)
  • BBM
  • AIM
  • ROFL
  • Facebook apps
  • DAO
  • Portal
  • The World Wide Web

Endangered

Hall

of

Fame

  • NFTs
  • Metaverse
  • Cookies
  • Hashtags
  • Hamburger menu
  • Digital Transformation
  • Digital-First
  • Crypto
  • Web3
  • Decentralized
  • ONChain
  • Newsletter
  • podcasts
  • Email
  • LOL

Resurrected

Should

be

Extinct

  • Webinars(??)
  • Dry Powder (referring to VC liquid capital to be deployed)
  • Human Capital
  • Digital