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For some reason, this seems to be vanishingly scarce knowledge in Linux / Unix circles. There was someone on HN a couple of weeks ago who was astounded to lear
by reaperducer 5y ago
For some reason, this seems to be vanishingly scarce knowledge in Linux / Unix circles.
There was someone on HN a couple of weeks ago who was astounded to learn that "modem" means "modulator-demodulator." Like it was some kind of forbidden magic.
Things that you an I consider entry-level knowledge are like scrolls and rune stones to tech people these days.
- dharmab 5y agoI'm old enough to have used modems and never heard the long name before.
- imwillofficial 5y agoI remember when the internet used to scream at me. I remember the proper name of a modem from my ancient CompTIA A+ classes I took as a teenager.
- Stratoscope 5y agoYou don't have to be a certain age to have used modems. You used one today to send that comment! Likely more than one. Radio, cable, and fiber don't carry bits. They carry waves - analog signals - just like an old fashioned copper phone line. They all need a modulator-demodulator to convert between bits and waves.
- onetom 5y agoI had a similar experience, when ppl didn't know that codec comes from coder-decoder... It happened, when I called a Clojure namespace x.y.codec, with encode and decode functions in them. I've also noticed how some of my colleagues hasn't realized, that the Rust serde library is short for serialize-deserialize.