The 1800s Had ‘Brainrot’ Too!
Techdirt. 2024-12-09
Summary:
The following is republished from the excellent Pessimist’s Archive, with permission. The Oxford Dictionary just added “brainrot” as its newest official word—a cynical, but tongue-in-cheek term for consuming too much short-form social media content. However, the word isn’t actually new – in the archives we found examples going back as far as a century and […]