15 megabytes of fame
nounEtymology
By analogy with 15 minutes of fame.
Definitions
A modest amount of fame achieved in the world of computing, as by inclusion on a popular…
A modest amount of fame achieved in the world of computing, as by inclusion on a popular video or audio clip available on the Internet.
- Culture is your friend who likes to draw[…]. / The web is an opportunity to make good our fifteen megabytes of fame. / The more widespread and grassroots the Internet, the more difficult it will be to dominate and control it.
- Even when the time commitment becomes incredible—some would say insane—they argue they’re “compensated” accordingly, whether in pleasure or new knowledge or what Scholz calls their “15 megabytes of fame.”
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for 15 megabytes of fame. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA