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This song and video, Ice Resurfacing Machine, is popular with a young boy I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqci9VCugLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s

This song and video, Ice Resurfacing Machine, is popular with a young boy I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqci9VCugLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqci9VCugLs

dylan604 1y ago
Ugh, it's like they went out of their way to not use the word Zamboni. Like when people say inline skates instead of Rollerblades or facial tissue instead of Kleenex. Yes, I know generic term versus a specific company. blah blah blah. But I feel like the UK has it okay when they say Hoovering instead of vacuuming. Same thing here.
- bitwize 1y ago
  This is to avoid trademark dilution, which in the USA can invalidate a trademark. Aspirin, for instance, used to be a trademark of Bayer, but these days is generic. I did not regularly hear the term "game console" until the late 90s. I used to think the promotion of this term was done by Nintendo in a trademark-protective maneuver to avoid rival systems being called "Nintendos" by granny, but it seems I was mistaken. Nevertheless, in the 80s we called them systems. Which system do you have, Nintendo or Sega? Recently in my retrogaming media habit I've heard "console" used occasionally to describe video game consoles in advertisements dating back to the early 80s, but at that time it was also used by Texas Instruments to refer to the TI-99/4A computer. TI was naming all of their home products to give a space-age technical feel to them. They marketed joysticks as "Wired Remote Controllers", and cartridges for the TI-99/4A as "Command Modules" or "Solid State Software". So I don't think "console" referring to a gaming device specifically was a term of art back then.
  - mikestaas 1y ago
    Oh man, time to fire up my TI-99/4A again.
  - eichin 1y ago
    Aspirin is kind of a special case - while it had become generic in the usual way, the actual loss of trademark status was part of the Treaty of Versailles as a punishment for world war 1. (So while there are various trademark-protection strategies, "don't lose a world war" might be difficult to pull off :-)
mauvehaus 1y ago
Have I got a treat for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5oBHGmes8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5oBHGmes8
Animats 1y ago
Oh, a Zamboni. Here's a video someone should make into a music video.[1] Same concept as a Zamboni, but for sand. [1] https://youtu.be/UKHLG1iOBUA https://youtu.be/UKHLG1iOBUA
- jaapz 1y ago
  That's a really cool device, but I'm kind of sad that it needs to exist

This song and video, Ice Resurfacing Machine, is popular with a young boy I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqci9VCugLs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqci9VCugLs

dylan604 1y ago

Ugh, it's like they went out of their way to not use the word Zamboni. Like when people say inline skates instead of Rollerblades or facial tissue instead of Kleenex. Yes, I know generic term versus a specific company. blah blah blah. But I feel like the UK has it okay when they say Hoovering instead of vacuuming. Same thing here.

bitwize 1y ago
This is to avoid trademark dilution, which in the USA can invalidate a trademark. Aspirin, for instance, used to be a trademark of Bayer, but these days is generic. I did not regularly hear the term "game console" until the late 90s. I used to think the promotion of this term was done by Nintendo in a trademark-protective maneuver to avoid rival systems being called "Nintendos" by granny, but it seems I was mistaken. Nevertheless, in the 80s we called them systems. Which system do you have, Nintendo or Sega? Recently in my retrogaming media habit I've heard "console" used occasionally to describe video game consoles in advertisements dating back to the early 80s, but at that time it was also used by Texas Instruments to refer to the TI-99/4A computer. TI was naming all of their home products to give a space-age technical feel to them. They marketed joysticks as "Wired Remote Controllers", and cartridges for the TI-99/4A as "Command Modules" or "Solid State Software". So I don't think "console" referring to a gaming device specifically was a term of art back then.
- mikestaas 1y ago
  Oh man, time to fire up my TI-99/4A again.
- eichin 1y ago
  Aspirin is kind of a special case - while it had become generic in the usual way, the actual loss of trademark status was part of the Treaty of Versailles as a punishment for world war 1. (So while there are various trademark-protection strategies, "don't lose a world war" might be difficult to pull off :-)

mauvehaus 1y ago

Have I got a treat for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5oBHGmes8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5oBHGmes8

Animats 1y ago

Oh, a Zamboni. Here's a video someone should make into a music video.[1] Same concept as a Zamboni, but for sand. [1] https://youtu.be/UKHLG1iOBUA https://youtu.be/UKHLG1iOBUA

jaapz 1y ago
That's a really cool device, but I'm kind of sad that it needs to exist