[WorldMaker]

That's the mistake that USB 2.0 made calling 480 Mbps "High Speed". Now it seems incredibly slow by today's standards.

[mananaysiempre]

Or even USB 1.1, which called the faster of its two modes (12 Mbit, or perhaps more honestly Mbaud, per second) “Full Speed”, at which point anything you name an even-faster one is going to be confusing.

[Tijdreiziger]

See also: high definition TV

[alias_neo]

Am I right in thinking that 4K and 8K are UHD 4K and UHD 8K?

I guess this debacle goes even further back with VHF and UHF.

Why do we insist on using such words when they don't clearly have an order?

Is "very" larger than "ultra" and where would "super" fit in there?

[anikom15]

Usable frequency is just on one axis, and is bound by the physical properties of the atmosphere, so there is at least a limit.