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Are you wired?

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To be wired. Well, if you're talking about that's not surprising I suppose, wires join electrical things. But, people being wired? If I say to you "are you wired?" or you say to me, "yes, you're wired"? Being wired is an expression that was born in the 1990s, and it was based on .

It really was referring to the I.T. world, the world where connect to the internet, and because your computer was now wired in through a cable into a line, people were said to be 'wired' meaning you were connected to the internet.

And so it developed a figurative use. People would say "are you wired?" and what they would mean is: can you talk to me in a reasonably way? 

Actually, all this is history now: in the last year or so, "wired" was replaced by "wireless" as the term to use, because "wireless fidelity technology", or "wi-fi" as it's called. W-i hyphen f-i, "wi-fi technology" is now in. Wireless is replacing wired. Now I say, "are you ?" meaning "are you ready for me?" I expect that'll be said in the near future. It hasn't happened yet, but it will!


 

 

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