The term time-sharing is no longer commonly used, having been replaced by simply multitasking, and by the advent of personal computers and workstations rather than shared interactive systems.

Although the present-day, loose use of the term " cyberspace " no longer implies or suggests immersion in a virtual reality, current technology allows the integration of a number of capabilities ( sensors, signals, connections, transmissions, processors, and controllers ) sufficient to generate a virtual interactive experience that is accessible regardless of a geographic location.

The term represented a contrast with the tape-based systems of the past, allowing shared interactive use rather than daily batch processing.

Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language ( such as HTML ), a client-side scripting language ( such as JavaScript ), a presentation definition language ( such as CSS ), and the Document Object Model.

" An alternative term suggested " as a more descriptive name for the discipline " is interactive decision theory.

Instead they use the strange term " interactive multimedia ": this is four syllables longer, and does not express the idea of extending hypertext.

The term " rich media " is synonymous for interactive multimedia.

** New media, a broad term encompassing the amalgamation of traditional media with the interactive power of computer and communications technology

The term Set-Back Box is used in the digital TV industry to describe a piece of consumer hardware that enables them to access both linear broadcast and internet-based video content, plus a range of interactive services like Electronic Programme Guides ( EPG ), Pay Per View ( PPV ) and Video on Demand ( VOD ) as well as internet browsing, and view them on a large screen television set.

More recently the term storyboard has been used in the fields of web development, software development and instructional design to present and describe, in written, interactive events as well as audio and motion, particularly on user interfaces and electronic pages.

The term " concrete ," in this theory, has been further specified by Lakoff and Johnson as more closely related to the developmental, physical neural, and interactive body ( see embodied philosophy ).

Nonetheless, the term DBS is often used interchangeably with DTH to cover both analog and digital video and audio services ( including video-on-demand and interactive features ) received by relatively small dishes ( less than 1 meter ).

* Videotex: The generic term used, but not formally approved ( at the end of 1979 ), by CCITT for a two-way interactive service emphasizing information retrieved, and capable of displaying pages of text and pictorial material on the screens of adapted TVs.

Though interactive, Isabelle also features efficient automatic reasoning tools, such as a term rewriting engine and a tableaux prover, as well as various decision procedures.

While the term " electronic publishing " is primarily used today to refer to the current offerings of online and web-based publishers, the term has a history of being used to describe the development of new forms of production, distribution, and user interaction in regard to computer-based production of text and other interactive media.

* Digital Course Components, general term for images, video, interactive activities, etc.

The sensibility, if not the term itself, almost certainly dates back to the early years of time-sharing computer systems in the 1960s when it was common for a single institutional mainframe to control many interactive terminals.

New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century which refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content.

The term " interactive television " is used to refer to a variety of rather different kinds of interactivity ( both as to usage and as to technology ), and this can lead to considerable misunderstanding.

( Note: " Enhanced TV " originated in the mid-late 1990s as a term that some hoped would replace the umbrella term of " interactive TV " due to the negative associations " interactive TV " carried because of the way companies and the news media over-hyped its potential in the early 90's.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e. g., Robert Nye's Memoirs of Lord Byron.

However, with robust error correction, and the possibility of external intervention, the common science fiction theme of robotic life run amok is unlikely in the near term.

In the original Japanese version, these three ( along with the rest of Dr. Gero's artificial creations ) are referred to as jinzouningen, which is a blanket term in Japanese science fiction applying to robots and androids, as well as cyborgs.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, from whom it was adopted by others.

* 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R. U. R., that coined the term " robot ".

Dyson conceived that such structures would be clouds of asteroid-sized space habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere, although Dyson himself used the term " shell ".

The term itself is an oblique reference to Olaf Stapledon's classic science fiction epic Last and First Men.

The term grimoire commonly serves as an alternative name for a spell-book or tome of magical knowledge in such genres as fantasy fiction and role-playing games.

German gothic fiction is usually described by the term Schauerroman („ shudder novel “).

From these, the Gothic genre per se gave way to modern horror fiction, regarded by some literary critics as a branch of the Gothic although others use the term to cover the entire genre.

Other science fiction authors, such as David Brin or Greg Cox, have borrowed the term over the years as an homage.

He also created the term “ science fiction ”, though he preferred the term " scientifiction ".

The complementary term soft science fiction ( formed by analogy to " hard science fiction ") first appeared in the late 1970s.

Today the term " Soft Science Fiction " is often used to refer to science fiction stories which lack a scientific focus or rigorous adherence to known science.

There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as " poetic painting " ( poesia ), or wanted to make a distinction between the " true " istoria, covering history including biblical and religious scenes, and the fabula, covering pagan myth, allegory, and scenes from fiction, which could not be regarded as true.

In literature, the term irrealism was first used extensively in the United States in the 1970s to describe the post-realist " new fiction " of writers such as Donald Barthelme or John Barth.