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the receipt no one thought they'd need until everything got deleted.
means A still image captured from a screen — a saved snapshot of whatever was displayed, whether a webpage, app, video, or conversation.
from A clipping of 'screen capture,' itself built from 'screen' (the display, from Old French 'escren,' a shield against heat or wind) plus 'capture' (Latin 'capere,' to seize). The verb 'to capture a screen' goes back to early computing; the snappy noun 'screencap' surfaced with internet culture, where seizing an image of what you saw — before it vanished or got edited — became its own reflex.
- first key
- PrtScn dates back to 1980s IBM keyboards
- courtroom power
- timestamped screenshots are admissible legal evidence
- the loophole
- Snapchat caps notify; sneaky users photograph the screen instead
- meme fuel
- nearly every viral tweet spreads as a screenshot
- hidden data
- shots can leak location and device metadata
for instance
print screen key — standard keyboard key present on ibm pc keyboards since 1981 for screenshot capture