@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months ago"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.message-square19fedilinkarrow-up1221arrow-down127
arrow-up1194arrow-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 • 11 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-square@gosling@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish85•11 months agoJust like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk
minus-square@kartonrealista@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink30•edit-211 months ago when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk This makes me feel old and I’m only in my mid twenties
minus-square@SGforce@lemmy.calinkfedilink10•11 months agoGive it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.
minus-squareValiantDustlinkfedilink22•11 months 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-square@NewEnglandRedshirt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink11•11 months 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-squareEuphoricPenguinlinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months 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Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded.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.