@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minus-square@SGforce@lemmy.calinkfedilink10•11 months agoGive it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded.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
Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded.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