What Does This Mean?

Lag

[ NETWORK CULTURE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Network CultureCLUSTER: Technical Folklore

A perceptible delay between an action and its effect showing up on screen, caused by network latency or device processing slowdown — the fundamental technical annoyance that a huge amount of gaming/network culture vocabulary is built around.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"I got killed instantly, there's no way that wasn't lag."

LORE & ORIGIN

Standard networking and gaming term dating to the earliest days of online multiplayer gaming and dial-up internet, when connection delay was a constant, visible part of the experience.

FIRST SEEN

1993

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

Not established

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

Related To:Lagging Lag Spike Lag Switch

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESlag →Français fr-FRlag →日本語 ja-JPラグ →한국어 ko-KR렉 →Português pt-BRlag →中文 zh-CN延迟 →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

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EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ NETWORK CULTURE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

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