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antirube n. A sophisticated computer user, particularly a user willing to be among the first to adopt a new technology.

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"[Computer industry] customers are shamed for not being sophisticated enough to recognize that at some unspecified point in the future, the industry will perfect its latest technology and a need for it will reveal itself. While it is shaming rubes, it's also abusing the early adopters of technology—the antirubes." —Geoffrey Rowan

Related Words:
cultural cringe
flyover country
hillbillying
rube-aphobia

Subject Categories:
Computers - General
Sociology - People

Posted on September 17, 1997
Updated on September 17, 1997


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