@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-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
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