Digital Howard

An obscure magician’s misdirect. Dates back to the late 1800’s, invented by William Radley and named after famed magician Howard Thurston. Involved creating a spectacle to draw people’s attention, and then using deft pickpocketing skills (digits) to nick as many valuables as possible while people were distracted.

If I tap you on the right shoulder so you look right, and then steal your wallet out of your left pocket, that's a Digital Howard

by Henry Trusseau June 4, 2013

digital shyness

defined as the abnormal, out-of-character, timid behavior exhibited by students online in which they seem to fear speaking

a term coined by Dr. Mark Tarpley on November 20, 2020 while observing the behavior of his students as they switched to online Zoom schooling due to the coronavirus

“digital shyness of digital natives” - DSDN

Today’s virtual class time was not very interactive and productive, due to the digital shyness my students displayed.

by cheyennnee November 20, 2020

Daddy Digital

Your go to person who knows all the latest and most interesting news. The person you always call to fix all of your computer problems. And kn Also a pun on Wu Tang's RZA's BOBBY DIGITAL album from 1998.

Leo Laporte is my Daddy Digital. Dude always knows what's up with Google and everything tech related.

by wheelzr April 10, 2010

digital transformation

A word used by sales people with limited knowledge of technology to define the movement from an older type of technology to something newer, sparkly and expensive but not necessarily better.

Do you want help with digital transformation of your current set-up to the cloud, all it takes is money, poor project management, staff re-training and if you are lucky, you might have something that is less secure, a pain to administer and at best as awful as what you had before but on someone else's computer

by Utterly Delightful March 27, 2018

Digital Renaissance

The era where information and ideas were easily accessible in the age of computers that started with the beginning of the Internet in 1995. A new enlightenment age, like the original Renaissance era of the 14th to 17th centuries, where art and culture thrive. A time where old and new ideas are revisited and reshaped to lead humanity into the next era all across the world.

We are living in the Digital Renaissance.

"Hopefully, after the Digital Renaissance era, people wouldn't be as stupid."

"Sorry Dave, you're wrong."

by samgw September 27, 2019

Digital penetration

Basically fingering

“Last night was the first time I experienced digital penetration”
“Please just say they fingered you”

by Be.gay.do.crime January 16, 2022

digital-axe

Used by people like Bill Gates to stop other programmers from creating a better running, more efficient operating system/software. Also see microsoft.

1. Homer Simpson's internet company, compuglobalhypermeganet got the digital axe by Bill Gates.
2. Apple computers got the digital axe by IBM

by MinDPhuK April 5, 2003