Cloud, stream, net and web how nature words have been taken over by tech

Where might you find a cloud and a stream, accompanied by tweeting? If those words make you think of nature and birdsong, you are one of a dying breed.New research has found that the language of the natural world is being lost or overtaken by references to technology.
Comparative analysis of conversation in the 1990s and the current decade showed that nature-related definitions have fallen dramatically.Modern usage of the word ‘tweet’ now refers to social media rather than birdsong in 99 per cent of cases.In the 1990s, a stream was a small river and a net was something you used to catch things. Now, those definitions have fallen to 36 per cent and 63 per cent respectively a stream is how your audio and video are played online, and the net is the internet.Nature usage of the word web has fallen from 71 per cent in the 1990s to seven per cent now. And while 100 per cent of references to a cloud in the 1990s were about the sky, the figure has fallen to 77 per cent as the remaining 23 per cent think of it as a place to store online data.