Microspeak: traffic jams and engine trouble
bitstorm (Probably general industry usage) A volume of traffic on a service high enough to cause the digital equivalent of gridlock. gronk The sound of a computer embroiled in bandwidth issues. "I tried to reboot, but my computer just sat there gronking until I had to call Help Desk." Possibly more a generalised computer geek term than a specific item of Microspeak. © Ken Barnes	The increasing use of oil as energy, at the beginning of the 20th century, was arguably the last major communications revolution prior to the Internet; and what did it lead to? Commuters in gronking vehicles at every node in the motorized life equivalent of bandwith...

Microspeak: traffic jams and engine trouble

bitstorm: (Probably general industry usage) A volume of traffic on a service high enough to cause the digital equivalent of gridlock.
gronk: The sound of a computer embroiled in bandwidth issues. "I tried to reboot, but my computer just sat there gronking until I had to call Help Desk." Possibly more a generalised computer geek term than a specific item of Microspeak.

The increasing use of oil as energy, at the beginning of the 20th century, was arguably the last major communications revolution prior to the Internet; and what did it lead to? Commuters in gronking vehicles at every node in the motorized life equivalent of bandwith...

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