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prime time: n. [from TV programming] Normal high-usage hours on a system or
network. Back in the days of big timesharing machines ‘prime
time’ was when lots of people were competing for limited cycles,
usually the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as
a major reason for night mode hacking. The term
fell into disuse during the early PC era, but has been revived to refer to
times of day or evening at which the Internet tends to be heavily loaded,
making Web access slow. The hackish tendency to late-night
hacking runs has changed not a bit.
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