AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3年前"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.message-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-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 · 3年前message-square13fedilink
minus-squaregosling@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3年前Just like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
minus-squareEuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3年前I feel like my obsession with Mavicas has just been dismissed as invalid.
minus-squareSGforce@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3年前Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3年前Well, 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-up1·3年前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
minus-squarekartonrealista@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23年前 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Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded.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