4 ms·
Yeah, we'd have to go through all sorts of books and documents on mechanics and electronics to whiteout (Doh! doing it again!!!) reference to those terms.
by JustSomeNobody 8y ago
Yeah, we'd have to go through all sorts of books and documents on mechanics and electronics to whiteout (Doh! doing it again!!!) reference to those terms.
- thecatspaw 8y agowhiteout is an interesting one though, I personally would have written blackout
- dkersten 8y agoIt’s whiteout because of tipp-ex/white-out/liquid paper style products.
- Jach 8y agoI like rub out (from the space cadet keyboard's backspace equivalent).
- greenyoda 8y agoActually, "rub out" goes all the way back to Teletype keyboards: > "This code was originally used to mark deleted characters on punched tape, since any character could be changed to all ones by punching holes everywhere. If a character was punched erroneously, punching out all seven bits caused this position to be ignored or deleted, a computer version of correction fluid." See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_character#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_character#History
- guitarbill 8y agomaybe we should change brownout, Brown noise, and Brownian motion while we're there /s