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I love that it's a 'tape' - I assume in reference to the early telegraph tapes/tickers: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co33749/stock-excha

I love that it's a 'tape' - I assume in reference to the early telegraph tapes/tickers: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co33749/stock-exchange-printing-telegraph-1907 https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co33749...

gjvc 4mo ago
standard terminology remains standard
- OJFord 4mo ago
  Sometimes. We still say 'terminals' (or pedantically 'terminal emulators') but we no longer 'dial up' webpages, we started 'loading' them instead.
  - gjvc 4mo ago
    anyone who said "dial-up" web pages didn't know how they worked.
HolyLampshade 4mo ago
Amusingly for the security information processors in the US (which handle US Equity consolidated quote and trade data) the trade feed is still referred to as the tape (one of the two governing bodies is called the Consolidated Tape Association). Securities are still associated by which ‘tape’ their trades print on (really which one of the two SIPs the trades will be found on).