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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

"Phones" were named after the Greek word for "sound", but modern phones are used in silence as often as not.

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"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 · 2 years ago
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    Just like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk

    • kartonrealista@lemmy.world
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      when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk

      This makes me feel old and I’m only in my mid twenties

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      Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.

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        Well, most people already forgot where it originated. That is from people whose job was to compute stuff by using tables, calculators and paper.

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          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

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      I feel like my obsession with Mavicas has just been dismissed as invalid.

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    Our phones are more like personal digital assistants than actual PDAs ever were.

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      I would argue that they are PDAs and smart phone is just an alternate branding. The name PDA just didn’t take off because it sounds dorky.

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        yep, PDAs became more widely attractive when phone functionality got added. or you have an iPod Touch.

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    That’s why I like the German word for them - “Handy.”

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      It would be weird asking my parents for a handy on my birthday

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        How are your arms?

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          Now that’s a classic.

    • TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world
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      So in Germany it’s not weird to ask someone for a handy?

      Cause that means a totally different thing around here

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      UK English they’re called phones, but cell phones are often called mobiles too.

      Maybe less so now that home phones (landlines) aren’t really a thing so all phones are generally mobiles.

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    There was a time where such multi devices was thought would come from watches, which would be much more telling.

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      My clumsyness would destroy a high tech watch. My phone is relatively safe in my pocket. Won’t be switching over to that.

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      Now we have snartwatches, but they’re much more limited, and often require a Bluetooth connection to a smartphone.

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