the.com/beta
the version that admits it might break your computer, honestly.
means a pre-release stage of software (or a person's dominance ranking, in the internet's dumber usage) that's functional but still being tested.
from from early engineering testing phases labeled alpha, beta, gamma; software adopted alpha for internal testing and beta for testing with outside users before public release.
gmail's betagmail stayed officially in beta for five years.
greek letter, twicebeta males named after the second greek letter, not biology.
beta fish ironybetta fish are spelled differently, unrelated to the term.
for instance
gmail beta — launched 2004, kept the beta tag until 2009.
windows insider builds — microsoft's rolling public beta program since 2014.