[Ads-l] Word: obsoleted

[Emily Gordon]

Coders and tech writers use it to describe features (e.g., on social
networks) that have been discontinued. Curious to know how far back it
goes.

[begim excerpt]

*How has ChatGPT obsoleted search*, when hallucination and the token limits
are major problems?
It's (sort of) obviated search for certain kinds of queries engineers make,
but not normies.

[End excerpt. Assuming everyone here knows about normies!]

Website: Hacker News [owned by Y Combinator]
Date: May 4, 2023
Comment on this thread: Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35822613

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[begin excerpt]

Earlier, Facebook poll was allowed to be created [sic] on your newsfeed and
timeline, which is no longer an option.... Facebook introduced some
personal profile features to ask questions *but later obsoleted them.*

[end excerpt]

Website: statusbrew.com
Date: Aug 4, 2023
Title: How To Create A Poll On Facebook In 2024
https://statusbrew.com/insights/facebook-poll/

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[begin excerpt]

I really think you'd better serve yourself learning software development.
Hardware design has reached a peak and manufacturing is done in China,
so *everything
is disposable before it's obsoleted*.

[end excerpt]

Website: gearspace.com
Date: April 3, 2010
Comment on this thread: How Can I Learn Electronics?
https://gearspace.com/board/geekzone/480392-how-can-i-learn-electronics.html

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[begin excerpt]

I was shocked to learn that hardly anyone uses google reader these days.
Why? One word: facebook. Apparently, we can add google reader to *the long
list of things that facebook has obsoleted* via the sheer numbers of people
it’s sucked into its network.

[end excerpt]

Website: quietlife.net
Date: March 9, 2011
Title: rss is dead. long live RSS!
https://quietlife.net/2011/03/09/rss-is-dead-long-live-rss/

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