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If I showed you the email asking that the "go" light be green, and the people who control vehicle traffic on the entire earth were like "ok green it is", would
by andirk 10y ago
If I showed you the email asking that the "go" light be green, and the people who control vehicle traffic on the entire earth were like "ok green it is", would that be interesting to you?
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoI'm not really in to artefacts in that way. Somebody decided to use green, there might even have been a letter sent, but it's an expected part of creation of a traffic light colour; so no i would really find that of particular interest. (BTW it seems green was used in analogue to train signals, early traffic signals use semaphores, like train signals, which go back to use of signal flags). I've been using the internet since one could decide how to route the emails one sends, I've used SSH a lot: it's just not interesting as a story, it's barely a factoid. FWIW I think a better analogy is the adoption of CQD as the distress signal for Morse operators (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD). It's interesting, but the manner in which it was adopted has no story to it.