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I always think of the indexes in the back of books as the origin of the term in computing. The relationship to "index cards" never even occurred to me!
by tshaddox 1y ago
I always think of the indexes in the back of books as the origin of the term in computing. The relationship to "index cards" never even occurred to me!
- kgwgk 1y agoIndex cards are not different from index entries in a book. Index is “indicator” or “pointer” in Latin (hence the name of the finger).
- tshaddox 1y agoYeah, I've got the vocab, I just never associated index cards with that use case because growing up we only ever used index cards for labeling, note-taking, arts and crafts, and flash cards.