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**steevytraunse** · 03-29-2011, 06:23 PM

The other day a kid asked me what a floppy disk was. I felt really old then, which is weird because I'm NOT. Kinda surprised he didn't know what they were.

Other anachronisms I've had to explain to underclassmen (a lot of these are a bit before my time):
1. Where "punching in numbers" comes from (punchcards, right?)
2. "Dialing" a telephone
3. Which came first, spam the canned food or spam the junk emails? (this one is my favorite)
4. Why floppy disks are called "floppy" disks
5. Why they are called "screensavers"
6. Why the command to display text in many programming languages is "print"

03-29-2011, 06:23 PM	#4
steevytraunse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 467 Senior Member	The other day a kid asked me what a floppy disk was. I felt really old then, which is weird because I'm NOT. Kinda surprised he didn't know what they were. Other anachronisms I've had to explain to underclassmen (a lot of these are a bit before my time): 1. Where "punching in numbers" comes from (punchcards, right?) 2. "Dialing" a telephone 3. Which came first, spam the canned food or spam the junk emails? (this one is my favorite) 4. Why floppy disks are called "floppy" disks 5. Why they are called "screensavers" 6. Why the command to display text in many programming languages is "print"
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