Just like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
This makes me feel old and I’m only in my mid twenties
I feel like my obsession with Mavicas has just been dismissed as invalid.
Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.
Well, most people already forgot where it originated. That is from people whose job was to compute stuff by using tables, calculators and paper.
I’m a freaking history teacher whose father was a computer scientist in the 70s and I didn’t know this until I read Hidden Figures
In my native language, the word for phone is an archaic word for wire. Which is also ironic.
There was a time where such multi devices was thought would come from watches, which would be much more telling.
Now we have snartwatches, but they’re much more limited, and often require a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone.
Our phones are more like personal digital assistants than actual PDAs ever were.
I would argue that they are PDAs and smart phone is just an alternate branding. The name PDA just didn’t take off because it sounds dorky.
yep, PDAs became more widely attractive when phone functionality got added. or you have an iPod Touch.
That’s why I like the German word for them - “Handy.”
UK English they’re called phones, but cell phones are often called mobiles too.
Maybe less so now that home phones (landlines) aren’t really a thing so all phones are generally mobiles.
