As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Goizueta Business School, the business librarians thought it might be fun to explore the evolution of business terminology between 1919 and 2019. So each month we will post a blog identifying business words and concepts that were captured in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for the decades that GBS has been in operation. Here is our eighth entry, business-speak from 1989-1998!
1989 Cybersecurity / Generation X / Viral marketing
1990 Cryptocurrency / McMansion / World Wide Web
1991 3-D printer / Cybercrime / Mission creep
1992 3-D printing / Augmented reality / Auto-complete / Flash drive / Generation Y / Personal digital assistant
1993 Access provider / Click through / E-commerce / Game changer / Uniform resource locator / Universal resource locator / Webmaster / Web page / Website
1994 Cybercitizen / Digital divide / Dot-com / Web crawler
1995 Anti-globalization / Click-through / Microfinance / Page view / Webcast
1996 Ad server / Big data / Cloud computing / Cyberattack / Cybersafety / NDA / Smartphone
1997 Cube farm / Dot-commer / M-commerce
1998 Open-source / Social networking / Webinar