@bytebro

Not a trick, and you were right but for the wrong reason.

The BBC demonstrated a prototype Ceefax on Tomorrow's World in October 1972, and it was in field trials in 1973. The Internet was invented in 1973, and Stanford, BBN, UCL, et al. were pushing packets around by 1975.

New pence, Ceefax, ABBA, and (according to its inventor) the pronoun "xe" all pre-date the Internet.

https://jdebp.uk/FGA/sex-neutral-pronouns.html#ABBA

#history #Internet #Ceefax #ABBA #Decimalization #EnglishLanguage

@KentBylines @csibike1

I remember seeing a current affairs segment from the 1980s where a reporter ran an experiment of asking old people to reckon market stall grocery prices in pre-decimal currency. Before #decimalization it was held in the popular press that the old people would never get used to this new money.

Almost none of the old people coped, and even made comments about how difficult it was.

Old people actually do acclimate to these things.

#metric #measurements #Europe #Brexit