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by crucialfelix 3y ago
Actual radio buttons in cars were for the most part rectangular
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There's a good explanation of how they worked here:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-do-old-timey-radio-buttons-work.956716/ https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-do-old-timey-radio...
- barnabee 3y agoIt's obvious with hindsight, but I had never realised that that is why they're called radio buttons!
- arcanemachiner 3y agoImagine the poor bastards in the future trying to comprehended the floppy-disk "save" icon.
- crucialfelix 3y agoThose poor bastards are here now. I'm teaching my 7 year old all these strange words and icons. We carry so much historical garbage.
- Izkata 3y agoI remember seeing a post like a decade or more ago of someone asking why you click on a little TV to save documents.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoMe too! I had assumed that 'radio button' was a bastardization of 'radial button', referring to the very shape which the author notes is conventionally used for them.