Post #535700
2026-02-26 06:07 UTC
Once again, no they didn’t. Literally just look it up. You have the knowledge of the world at your fingertips.
The term “sideload” was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideloading
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@Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-26 07:02
Yep, and that definition was definitely what you meant lmfao. You’re obviously within spitting distance of the point, you basically spelled it out in your last sentence, just, I don’t know, reread your words slowly?
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-02-26 07:08
listen, I’ve been in technology for a long-ass time and I’ve never heard of i-drive nor should I care about the vocabulary they use. The first time I ever heard the term sideloading was when these mobile stores started using it to make other options sound illegitimate.