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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm just glad the term "talkies" didn't catch on.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix "ie" to anything when something new was invented

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We're not much better, we've had tends for -r and -io.

    Movr, movios.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on...

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  • Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies... wait .. oh no..

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Everyone still "video tapes" everything on their phones.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do they....?

    I'll be honest, I haven't heard anyone say that ever when using a phone.

    Maybe "videos" as a verb but generally "records" in my experience

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    I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.

    Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You're thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    You should take longer showers so that you can think a bit more.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Bird is the word

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