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A complete aside, but I just realised that putty is named after the old fashioned adhesive clay used to cement window panes into the frames of windows. PuTTY…
by gorgoiler 3y ago
A complete aside, but I just realised that putty is named after the old fashioned adhesive clay used to cement window panes into the frames of windows.
PuTTY… Windows… gosh I feel dumb. I’ve used putty for almost 25 years but didn’t put two and two together until I just remembered how the pheasants in my garden would peck out the window putty to get at the ladybirds hibernating underneath.
- jwilk 3y agohttps://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#faq-meaning https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#... > What does ‘PuTTY’ mean? > It's the name of a popular SSH and Telnet client. Any other meaning is in the eye of the beholder. It's been rumoured that ‘PuTTY’ is the antonym of ‘getty’, or that it's the stuff that makes your Windows useful, or that it's a kind of plutonium Teletype. We couldn't possibly comment on such allegations.
- blueflow 3y agoThis is a human bias to assume that there must be some deeper meaning behind things.