Aug 30 2007
Bacn? WTF?
I have to admit that I don’t really have my ear on the pulse of the internet and any new term that comes my way has probably been around for at least 3.5 years so forgive me if this is seriously old news.
Well it’s not really even news, just a new term. Or maybe an old one. Who knows. Ok enough of me talking to myself… the term is ‘bacn’. It’s pronounced ‘bacon’ and I think the idea is that it’s better than spam or something witty and clever like that.
It refers to all those emails that you get that aren’t spam but aren’t from a living, breathing person either. Stuff like bills from your internet provider, notices that someone has just invited you to be a pirate on Facebook, a notice that someone has commented on your comment on a blog etc etc etc. All those emails that you’ll probably want to read at some point but never seem to have time for.
Do we really need to give this stuff a name? If we’re going to give it a name and it’s going to sound like bacon, why can’t we just call it bacon instead of the ridiculous looking bacn? Why does this even bother me?
I need to get out more.
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Definitely a sign of aging, the disain for the “new” way. In the way that Rock and Roll was to our parents, grandparents or even earlier ancestors…… Of course, I say this from experience. Best to just accept. And rememebr that, just like it was ghastly as a kid to hear an old geiser use phrasess like “I’m hip,” the new vernacular is age-appropriate. Nothing worse, wordswise anyway, than baby-talk pablum from 40-years old or more mouth…..
Oh crap. Is that what it is? I did turn 30 a mere two months ago… am I doomed to a life of getting aggrivated by all these rad new words, daddy-o? Say it ain’t so!
We should round-out the whole breakfast thing and coin thes terms too: Eggz, T0ast, and Graavy.
Haha, ya. I’ve heard this new ‘bacn’ term described as being ‘better than spam but not quite as good as sausage’.
Does that mean that we should be referring to regular emails as ’ssge’ or any other variation of 4 letters that looks remotely like sausage?
I’m not going to check my email anymore, I’m going to check my sausage. Sounds kinda dirty, I like it.
Don’t worry… it’s still a pretty new term. It was coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh a mere couple weeks ago!
Ages in Internet time, yes.