Define realtime on the web for business

Question

It drives me nuts to hear business proponents using the term realtime for web-based systems. I\'m becoming the crazy in the room, chanting, \"There is no such thing as real

Answer 1

It's a marketing term that means "really fast", like maybe < 1 second.

Obviously it can't mean the same thing as when people talk about real-time embedded systems, real-time operating systems, etc. The web is too big and heterogeneous for that.