• gosling@lemmy.world
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    Just like clicking on floppy disk save icons everyday when you’ve never held an actual floppy disk

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      Give it a few years and the term “computer” might be superseded. We’ll forget where the word originated.

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        Well, most people already forgot where it originated. That is from people whose job was to compute stuff by using tables, calculators and paper.

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          I’m a freaking history teacher whose father was a computer scientist in the 70s and I didn’t know this until I read Hidden Figures