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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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@chunes@lemmy.world · Feb 26
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.
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