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Carbon footprint
Meaning
A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted during an industrial or domestic process.
Examples
I just can’t junk my Ford Mustang. I know it’s a gas guzzling muscle car but I’ll try to improve my carbon footprint some other way.
Where did it originate?
UK – late 20th century.
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Click bait
Meaning
An eye catching word or image on a website.
Examples
Those half-price ads that keep popping up are annoying. They are intended as click bait to draw you into their website but they just put me off.
Where did it originate?
USA and UK, early 21st century.
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Its not rocket science
Meaning
Said of something that isn’t complex or difficult to understand.
Examples
A twenty page handbook of instructions to erect a tent! How difficult can it be? Its not exactly rocket science.
Where did it originate?
America, late 20th century.
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Link farm
Meaning
A website that exists primarily to display links to another website, with the intention of improving the search status of the second site.
Examples
That site is just a list of links to Jim’s Facebook page. Google will spot that as a link farm for sure.
Where did it originate?
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Mostly among the younger generation.
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Link rot
Meaning
The tendency of WWW addresses to become out of date and point to unavailable pages.
Examples
That website’s not been edited for years, there are dead link rot links all over it.
Where did it originate?
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Mostly among the younger generation.
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Pull the plug
Meaning
Bring something to an end.
Examples
The new government prefer to spend on defence. They’ve pulled the plug on all new welfare spending.
Where did it originate?
USA, early 20th century. The allusion was to pulling an electrical plug out of its socket.
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Silver surfer
Meaning
An older person who uses the World Wide Web.
Examples
Granny didn’t want the iPad we bought her but since we showed her how to Skype the kids in Australia she’s become a real silver surfer.
Where did it originate?
USA, late 20th century.
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