Citations:necrobump

English citations of necrobump, necro-bump, and necro bump

Verb: "(Internet slang) to revive a dormant conversation by adding a message to it"

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• 2007 December 22, Ackis, “Re: Windows Media Player 11 Slow Sync”, in microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player‎^[1] (Usenet):

  Sorry for necro bumping this, however I've been experiencing this issue with WMP 11 for over a year on my Sansa C150... this was the first thing that came up with a google search.

• 2009 April 19, Derek Janssen, “Re: Tired media cliches”, in rec.arts.movies.current-films‎^[2] (Usenet):

  ...What, you mean, necro-bumping dead threads after a month?

• 2009 July 22, Derek Janssen, Re: Most heavy-handed political message movie?, in rec.arts.movies.past-films, Usenet:

  Can't remember whether it was mentioned in the old thread from before Avoid necro-bumped it, but now that it's back: Just TRY and find […]

• 2010 July 16, Tempest, “Re: Using an Amiga 1080 Monitor with the IIgs”, in comp.sys.apple2‎^[3] (Usenet):

  Sorry to necro-bump this, but does the 1080 have the same pinout asthe 1084?

• 2012 November 15, Tempest, “Re: IIe Games That Don't Work on the IIgs”, in comp.sys.apple2‎^[4] (Usenet):

  I hate to necrobump this, but has anyone ever figured out the cause of this?

• 2014 March 7, aaronortega007 [username], “Re: What is the lethal dose of LSD?”, in alt.drugs.psychedelics‎^[5] (Usenet):

  Necrobumping an 18 year old thread. O.o.

Probably verbal

• 2009 february 14, "Me" (username), RE: Release date for PC drivers for chatpad, in microsoft.public.mshardware.product, Usenet:

  "o12t14a86" wrote: > necro bump > > Its been more than a year... > > Microsoft, please release drivers for the chatpad.

• 2011 June 26, "Stroller", Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF, in linux.gentoo.user, Usenet:

  Necro bump! On 8 May 2011, at 02:31, luis jure wrote: […]

Noun: "(Internet slang) such a post made on a thread"

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• 2008 July 5, "Executive Function" (username), Re: Implicit Associations: Empirical Findings and Neuromagick Theory, in alt.magick, Usenet:

  - Interesting necrobump. It's July […]

• 2012 August 9, Tempest, “Re: Mockingboard Speech Games”, in comp.sys.apple2‎^[6] (Usenet):

  A bit of a necrobump. Did we ever find any other games that had Mockingboard speech support or are these it?

• 2015 April 8, R.Wieser, “Re: Nulls in Recordsets”, in microsoft.public.vc.mfc‎^[7] (Usenet):

  Thats^[sic] one mighty necro-bump you did there. :-) Look at the date of the post you responding to. Thats about 15 *years* ago.