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Ask HN: Where does the phrase "Fast" originate from?

7 点作者 jskherman超过 1 年前
I've been hearing this term A LOT in companies' marketing, in various YouTube videos, and sometimes used in memes. Where is it actually from? Search engines, Bing, nor ChatGPT don't give a proper answer.

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jskherman超过 1 年前
Update: Did the title not save properly? Sorry about the ambiguous title.<p>What I meant to ask was: &quot;Where does the phrase &#x27;Blazingly Fast&#x27; come from?&quot;
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nickm12超过 1 年前
The phrase &quot;blazingly fast&quot; is tightly associated with Apple in my mind. Some searching finds that it was part of the marketing of the Power Mac G4 in 1999. No idea if it was used earlier, but The Forbes article even puts the phrase in quotes, perhaps indicating that it was uncommon at the time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;1999&#x2F;08&#x2F;31&#x2F;mu4.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;1999&#x2F;08&#x2F;31&#x2F;mu4.html</a>
throwaway154超过 1 年前
Motor racing perhaps. As in, the wheels are on fire.<p>I believe I&#x27;ve heard it in relation to the internet since broadband rollout. But who knows, perhaps that&#x27;s just past experience fallacy.<p>To see whether or not, try the Wayback Machine. Here&#x27;s a search for this phrase: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;*&#x2F;blazingly%20fast" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;*&#x2F;blazingly%20fast</a>
Jensson超过 1 年前
Fast food maybe, you get what you want immediately instead of having to wait like you do at a normal restaurant.<p>So FastX would mean that you want to be McDonalds of X.
PaulHoule超过 1 年前
Fast is better than slow. I&#x27;m not going to take any guff about &quot;fast fashion&quot; or &quot;slow food&quot;. My #1 problem w&#x2F; McDonald&#x27;s is that it fails to deliver on the &quot;fast&quot; part of the brand promise.
smoldesu超过 1 年前
If you&#x27;re talking about the long-term history of the term: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etymonline.com&#x2F;word&#x2F;fast" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etymonline.com&#x2F;word&#x2F;fast</a>
weare138超过 1 年前
All I know is it&#x27;s pretty old. I&#x27;m from GenX and I remember hearing it when I was a kid.