the.com/interactive
software that pretends to listen, then acts like it cares what you clicked.
means describes anything that responds to user input in real time, rather than just sitting there being looked at.
from from latin inter- (between) plus agere (to act) — literally action happening between two parties, coined in computing circa 1960s to distinguish live systems from batch processing that just crunched data overnight and told you tomorrow.
opposite termbatch processing, the polite word for waiting
first use1960s mainframes replying instead of queuing
buzzword era1990s cd-roms slapped it on everything
modern flexnow just means the website works