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Off topic but … > Most people have heard of files and documents in real life I don’t think so. I’m late 30s and I learned of files and folders on windows long
by wodenokoto 4y ago
Off topic but …
> Most people have heard of files and documents in real life
I don’t think so. I’m late 30s and I learned of files and folders on windows long before I was introduced to the physical concept.
I still feel a small tickle in my funny bone when I see a real life version of the folder icon in an office.
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoHave you seen the little 3d-printed versions of the “save” icon? Some people call them “floppy disks” for unknown reasons. :)
- mananaysiempre 4y agoFunny how there’s two levels of obsolescence here: I’ve used plenty of floppies, but none of them were actually floppy; I’ve had 8-inch floppies waved at me but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a powered-on 8-inch drive. (Yes, I’ve heard the nuclear launch story.)
- fipar 4y agoI only used 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppy disks, and I assume you refer to the 3 1/2 ones as the cover on those was hard. I always thought the 'floppy' part was to refer to the disk itself, which, even on the 3 1/2 ones was flexible, but now you make me question that and perhaps they name just stuck even if they stopped being floppy? I never thought of this because in my country they were referred to as "diskettes" , a word that didn't imply (to me anyway) any flexibility on them.
- escape_goat 4y agoIt was indeed a reference to the physical substrate of the disk, not the bendability of the media per se. They were still truly floppy.
- jacobsenscott 4y agoI think I stopped calling them floppies when we started using 3.5" disks and just called them disks. Because the 5.25's were floppy on the outside, but the 3.5's weren't.
- rightbyte 4y agoThe inside is floppy though. Disk implies solid in my world.
- kkylin 4y agoI'd venture to guess everyone here knows what YouTube is even if they never use it. I wonder how many (even on this list) have seen a CRT? (I'm guessing the answer is "more than I think...")
- golergka 4y ago> even if they never use it Who would that be?
- dkarl 4y agoI catch myself asking questions like this, but then I remember how much tech from before my lifetime I can identify. Carriages, crank-started automobiles, biplanes, muskets, fire-starting bows, spinning wheels, washboards, etc. How do I know what it looks like to press a wax seal with a ring? Or send a message with a telegraph, or climb the rigging of a square-rigged ship? I know there are people who carefully avoid any media that isn't obviously by and about the present moment, and they'll continue to be clueless about the past like they always have been, but there will also be plenty of people who can identify a CRT into the 22nd century.
- unregistereddev 4y agoI was going to agree "more than you think", but in tech years I'm also old. Maybe people have seen CRT tv's in parents' or grandparents' houses. As someone who has used multiple CRT's and both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks, this thread makes me feel old.
- xdennis 4y agoI'm 33. The first time I felt truly old is when in Grown Ups (a comedy) the kid sees a CRT TV and asks "Dad, what is the box behind the TV for?".
- wodenokoto 4y agoIs that what the tube in youtube refers to? I've grown up with CRT's but never made the connection.
- nomoreusernames 4y agoas you can see ive lost a case. have you seen my upper case by chance?
- mananaysiempre 4y agoMust have been pretty hard to carry around a type case the weight of a wardrobe.
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