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-square21fedilinkarrow-up1222arrow-down126
arrow-up1196arrow-down1message-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-square21fedilink
minus-squaregosling@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·1 year agoJust like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
minus-squarekartonrealista@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·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
minus-squareSGforce@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoGive it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.
minus-squareValiantDust@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 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-up11·1 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-squareEuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI feel like my obsession with Mavicas has just been dismissed as invalid.
Just like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
This makes me feel old and I’m only in my mid twenties
Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded.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
I feel like my obsession with Mavicas has just been dismissed as invalid.