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Fairly sure we only use "My" at all due to iMacs being misinterpreted by computer illiterate people assuming the I as a possessive term, meaning "I Mac" and not
by homeonthemtn 1y ago
Fairly sure we only use "My" at all due to iMacs being misinterpreted by computer illiterate people assuming the I as a possessive term, meaning "I Mac" and not the correct truncation of "Internet Machine."
This blew up as an assumption at the time - the kids want identity! Customization! - and soon we got "My" tagged to everything, the most famous being myspace.com
So now we're stuck with these dumb assumptions of possession when we could just have "My Account" be "Account" and be done with it.
/rant
- tdeck 1y agoI seem to remember Windows 95 had "My Computer" and the iMac came out in 1998, so the "My" labeling was already underway.
- homeonthemtn 1y agoTechnically yes, but no one thought that was necessarily cool. iMacs were huge in the adoption of computers by families and kids though
- eloisant 1y agoThe first time I remember seeing "My" was "My Computer" on Windows 95. I hated then, still hate it now.