AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up112
arrow-up112message-square"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squaregosling@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoJust like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
minus-squareEuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI feel like my obsession with Mavicas has just been dismissed as invalid.
minus-squareSGforce@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoGive it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoWell, most people already forgot where it originated. That is from people whose job was to compute stuff by using tables, calculators and paper.
minus-squareNewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI’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
minus-squarekartonrealista@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk This makes me feel old and I’m only in my mid twenties
Just like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
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Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded.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
This makes me feel old and I’m only in my mid twenties