the.com/bandwidth
the invisible river everyone drinks from until someone starts a video call
means The capacity of a communication channel to carry data—or, by extension, a person's available time and mental energy to handle tasks.
from A compound of 'band' and 'width,' born in early 20th-century radio and telephone engineering. 'Band' here means a range of frequencies (think of a band on a dial), and the 'width' of that band measured how much signal it could carry. As computing and networks rose, the word migrated to digital data rates, then leapt the species barrier into office slang—where 'I don't have the bandwidth' turns a human brain into a strained network cable.
- word origin
- Literally the width of a band of frequencies
- human use
- Now means your mental capacity to care
- speed king
- Fiber moves data near light speed
- hidden hog
- Streaming video eats most of the internet
- old trick
- Mailing hard drives once beat the network
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