Yeah, to me, "applications" are PC software programs and "apps" are small applications for mobile or embedded devices. But the difference is getting more hazy by the day as mobile apps get more powerful in their functionality and even Microsoft calls their Windows 10 desktop programs "apps".
@@Aranimda no. Pc products have mostly always been called programs especially from mid 90s to like 2010. Phone programs began to be called apps by iPhone. Also app is short for application. Idk how you can't fking realize that and treat it like app and application are two different things
During the early years, I learned that a computer program is software that is used to enable the user to use it with the hardware. An application [program] is a kind of program used to perform a specific task or some tasks, like the bundled business productivity suite of programs. People changed the names of microcomputer hardware and software, just like the English language.
Wasn't aware of its existence but it seems to me that it fills a big gap that Windows didn't offer compared to other GUIs like MacOS, GEM, Amiga WB, Atari TOS..., simply icons for accessing the drives and printers, drag and drop.
As far as I am concerned, it is bad that I cannot use Microsoft Windows XP Professional and Microsoft Office XP Professional. My first computer caught a dead motherboard several times from 2002 until 2017. Now I have a different brand Windows microcomputer with Microsoft Windows 11 Professional, running Microsoft Office 2021, and I feel not to look backward anymore.
I wish I would have known and seen The Computer Chronicles in 2002 when I bought my first microcomputer, [color laser] printer and scanner. I enjoy watching people use computers.
12:55 -- My dad had that same monitor! It was a Zenith flat screen CRT monitor from 1988, which was very unusual back then. Flat screen CRTs didn't really become normal until around the late 90s/early 2000s. That monitor was a heavy son-of-a-bitch. It was 14" but it seemed to weigh as much as a 24" monitor...
I had bought my Pentium MMX Windows 95 PC in 1997 and I had Microsoft Office 97 (e.g. MS Word 97, MS Publisher 97, MS Excell 97) installed. But this earlier edition of Windows 3.1 one had to buy each application tools and software separately.
I was 1 yr old in 1991 and at the origin of computers that Windows 3.1 was launched in 1990 Windows applets were astonishingly big to people learning the newest software and how to use them proficiently.
jkadoodle Because they heard of it and were intrigued and wanted to see what it was all about. They wanted her to perfect it because they wanted to send it out to the whole company.
Look at how warped those windows are on those CRT monitors. Nice CRT monitors didn't come about until those expensive Sony Trinitrons and the professional Hitachi Superscans. Now for just a few hundred dollars we buy LCD monitors with superb displays.
When they show the close ups, those cameras aren't aimed at monitors (unless you can see the monitors bezel). Usually back then they'd use a CRT based projector onto a matte screen and film off that in a dark room (connected by a video splitter). This allows good contrast while filming it, and also prevents moire patterns from a shadow mask, as the projectors back then were 3 separate black and white CRT's colored by gels. The monitors themselves could be just fine, as is a lot of my 80's computer monitors with great geometry.
Yea, screen display technology change has been huge. Those large screen CRTs were also super heavy and had huge physical space requirements. They also got hot and the cheap or older ones would give off high frequency pitches over time.
I am starting to think this use of "apps" is some kind of Mandela effect. I started using computers in the early 90s and i NEVER heard anyone use that expression. They were programs...ALWAYS programs. but as i look back now it actually seemed using "application" were not that uncommon at all? Maybe it was just around me then huh? I never heard anyone using "app" or "application" until those god damn smartphones came along....
wrong actually, if you were addicted to downloading warez on a 56k dialup like i was, u would know that warez = gamez & appz... i used appz/apps ever since then
@@Psidawg Now that you mention it i actually do remember seing "appz" with z being used back then. I guess its just one of those things the memory aint bothering to keep track of.
I also don't remember using apps although I was born in 1998 so I'm a 2000s kid lol. Anyway, most of my computer teachers then use the term program rather than apps.
Or this even, take a look at the top left corner of the screen. osnews.com/img/24882/apps.PNG I think that easily prove's your error, and that the title is "obviously" correct.
@Andrew Tarrant The official title of this episode was "Windows applications". Check the title screen at the beginning. So the RU-vid title is clearly wrong.
It was a common abbreviation -- I remember using it all the time when chatting with other computer users on local BBSes. We abbreviated a lot of things to make typing quicker.
@@Play-jv3oi Wow... I remember communion. My Papa (Grandpa) would buy the juice for the communion I think. I liked the gold-colored trays with the tiny cups in them. And our Church had actual *bread*. :O He died shortly before I turned 10... To this day, I know he watches over me.... :D God bless you, my friend. :)
@@blackneos940 My Granma Died when you were born, right after my first communion. and The person I loved the most My grandpa died 11 years after you were born. 2002. I remember him all the time. my dear Grandpa, so I understand you
Imagine, if you will, a guest on the show that Stewart doesn’t feel the overwhelming urge to cut short, and talk over, time and time again. That guest, simply does not exist.
Actually they did. Here's "Apps" being used in an old program from the mid 80's: osnews.com/img/24882/apps.PNG Checkmate. Also, Apple was doing it with MacApp back in '85 as well.
Sure we did. We abbreviated everything on early computer BBSes, and later, on Usenet bulletin boards and IRC chat networks. Maybe it wasn't in the popular mainstream lexicon yet, but computers weren't as widely used back then either.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q7AQVdmnZi4.html There is a folder right there in the bottom left called "Windows Apps" in this very episode.