What is a newspaper delivered physically and so more slowly compared to online news called?
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PAUL MCFREDIES at WORDSPY dishes the dirt:
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PAUL MCFREDIES at WORDSPY dishes the dirt:
n. A newspaper delivered physically and so more slowly compared to online news; the print edition of a newspaper. Also: snail-paper.
Example Citations:
It's 2013. The screens are winning adherents left and right. Print newspapers are turning into "snailpapers" that arrive at our doorsteps with news that is 12 hours late.
—Dan Bloom, "Scissors, Paper, Screen: The Future of Reading," TeleRead, June 8, 2013
—Dan Bloom, "Scissors, Paper, Screen: The Future of Reading," TeleRead, June 8, 2013
April 7 is International Snailpapers Day, celebrating hard-copy media.
—Bruce Spotleson, "Every day is a celebration," Las Vegas Sun, February 11, 2013
—Bruce Spotleson, "Every day is a celebration," Las Vegas Sun, February 11, 2013
Earliest Citation:
Those of us reading your snail-paper version of the BtB column this Sunday got a jolt when we turned from the front page of Style to the jump page 3.
—"Chatological Humor," The Washington Post, January 11, 2005
—"Chatological Humor," The Washington Post, January 11, 2005
Notes:
Many thanks to Dan Bloom for passing along this word, which is a play on snail mail: letters, bills, and other mail delivered physically and therefore much more slowly than e-mail. Slightly surprisingly, snail mail entered the language as far back as 1982 (h/t OED):
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It’s all online, digital, webbed, iPadded, Googled, Nooked. Print newspapers have ceased to exist since 2020. Everyone gets their N&O online now, from the Web-only New York Times to the digital Boston Globe. Even the Boulder Daily Camera is a camera to the online world now. Goodbye, paper. Sayonara newsprint.
Meanwhile, there’s this song titled ”I Just Can’t Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)”. It’s a novelty song about newspapers sung by J. Gale Kilgore of Big Spring, Texas. It’s on YouTube now, where it’ll probably still be in 2025. Carl Bernstein, whose name appears in the words to the song, along with old print gods like Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward, watched the video and told this writer: “That says it all.”
Watch it here:
![newspapers]( "newspapers")
It’s all online, digital, webbed, iPadded, Googled, Nooked. Print newspapers have ceased to exist since 2020. Everyone gets their N&O online now, from the Web-only New York Times to the digital Boston Globe. Even the Boulder Daily Camera is a camera to the online world now. Goodbye, paper. Sayonara newsprint.
Meanwhile, there’s this song titled ”I Just Can’t Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)”. It’s a novelty song about newspapers sung by J. Gale Kilgore of Big Spring, Texas. It’s on YouTube now, where it’ll probably still be in 2025. Carl Bernstein, whose name appears in the words to the song, along with old print gods like Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward, watched the video and told this writer: “That says it all.”
Watch it here:
Someone else may have answered this for you by now (our Unix-Wizard mail is slower than snail mail these days) but I'll give it a shot.
—Bill Lee, "Reply to: yacc wizardry sought," net.unix-wizards, June 2, 1982
—Bill Lee, "Reply to: yacc wizardry sought," net.unix-wizards, June 2, 1982
VIDEO HERE
It’s 2025 and print newspapers have disappeared…
June 17, 2013 | 8:02 pm
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By Dan Bloom
Imagine this:It’s 2025 and print newspapers have disappeared, except for a few big city tabloids and free give-away shopping papers. So how do you get your news and opinion [N&O] broadsheets now?
It’s all online, digital, webbed, iPadded, Googled, Nooked. Print newspapers have ceased to exist since 2020. Everyone gets their N&O online now, from the Web-only New York Times to the digital Boston Globe. Even the Boulder Daily Camera is a camera to the online world now. Goodbye, paper. Sayonara newsprint.TeleRead? Still here and appearing daily.
By 2025, print is finally dead. Digital reigns supreme.
Any holdouts? A few. Inconsequential.
Screens have taken over. “Screening” has replaced “reading.” (Take note, Nick Bilton.)
In short, it’s a very different world from the one we live in now, in 2013. People are still adjusting. The younger generation doesn’t know the difference. Call them ‘”Generation Forget.”
It’s an entirely new ballgame now. Better? Worse? We won’t know for another 100 years.
Meanwhile, MRI and PET scan studies on the brain show that reading on screens is just as good, brain-wise, in terms of brain chemistry, as reading on paper. We shall adapt. We always do.Meanwhile, there’s this song titled ”I Just Can’t Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)”. It’s a novelty song about newspapers sung by J. Gale Kilgore of Big Spring, Texas. It’s on YouTube now, where it’ll probably still be in 2025. Carl Bernstein, whose name appears in the words to the song, along with old print gods like Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward, watched the video and told this writer: “That says it all.”
Watch it here:
It’s 2025 and print newspapers have disappeared…
June 17, 2013 | 8:02 pm
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By Dan Bloom
Imagine this:It’s 2025 and print newspapers have disappeared, except for a few big city tabloids and free give-away shopping papers. So how do you get your news and opinion [N&O] broadsheets now?
It’s all online, digital, webbed, iPadded, Googled, Nooked. Print newspapers have ceased to exist since 2020. Everyone gets their N&O online now, from the Web-only New York Times to the digital Boston Globe. Even the Boulder Daily Camera is a camera to the online world now. Goodbye, paper. Sayonara newsprint.TeleRead? Still here and appearing daily.
By 2025, print is finally dead. Digital reigns supreme.
Any holdouts? A few. Inconsequential.
Screens have taken over. “Screening” has replaced “reading.” (Take note, Nick Bilton.)
In short, it’s a very different world from the one we live in now, in 2013. People are still adjusting. The younger generation doesn’t know the difference. Call them ‘”Generation Forget.”
It’s an entirely new ballgame now. Better? Worse? We won’t know for another 100 years.
Meanwhile, MRI and PET scan studies on the brain show that reading on screens is just as good, brain-wise, in terms of brain chemistry, as reading on paper. We shall adapt. We always do.Meanwhile, there’s this song titled ”I Just Can’t Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)”. It’s a novelty song about newspapers sung by J. Gale Kilgore of Big Spring, Texas. It’s on YouTube now, where it’ll probably still be in 2025. Carl Bernstein, whose name appears in the words to the song, along with old print gods like Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward, watched the video and told this writer: “That says it all.”
Watch it here: