| ▲ | KPGv2 2 hours ago | |
We might've been caught on different parts of the wave. I checked Ngrams out of curiosity https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=TUI&year_start... Basically it was never used, then it was heavily used, and then never used, and then in the early 00s it took off again. That'd explain why you used it, I never did, and now young kids are. | ||
| ▲ | rjmunro 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
I don't think that search is very valid - the TUI group travel companies are likely much more mentioned than Terminal User Interface. They are pretty big around the world and have an airline, cruises, hotels etc. | ||
| ▲ | marssaxman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Thanks for looking that up! It makes sense, of course - the line starts to drop in 1984, with the release of the Macintosh, and hits a trough around the launch of Windows 95. It's not a term I recall hearing at all when I started using computers in the mid-'80s - all that mattered back then was "shiny new GUI, or the clunky old thing?" I really thought it was a retroneologism when I first heard it, maybe twenty years ago. | ||