BUFFERING
Endlessly aggravating pauses that occurred onscreen while watching choppy playback of online clips and films, usually accompanied by an image of an hourglass, a rotating circle, or a colored horizontal bar; often resulted in basketball games that looked like groups of robots playing freeze tag; most common before high-speed Internet connections were available outside the workplace. Inspired bilious YouTube users to post proclamations like VideoSuperMaster's "One day Satan found out about buffering and said to himself, 'Even I think that is too evil.'"