Button, Advertising
date: label: date made
content: c 1992
notes: label: Description
content: This square button has a background that is an image of a computer monitor with a blue screen. In white text on the screen it reads: "SNEAKERS We'd tell you about it, but then we'd have to kill you." A mark in black ink on the reverse reads: "PC EXPO NY 6/92."
label: Description
content: Sneakernet is computer jargon for the method of moving electronic data by personally carrying it from one place to another on removable media such as floppy disk, compact disk, flash drive, etc. The term was coined in the early days of computing before networks were common.
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content: References:
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content: [Last accessed 2019-07-18]
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content: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/51585/sneakernet
label: Description
content: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/sneakernet
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Advertising
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: David DeJean
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.3071.624
label: catalog number
content: 2009.3071.624
label: nonaccession number
content: 2009.3071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, advertising
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 2 1/8 in x 5/16 in; 5.334 cm x 5.334 cm x .762 cm