ScalziJust heard someone on a YouTube video tell viewers to "stay tuned" for something coming up later, and I'm struck by how some phrases outlive their initial context. Literally, it makes no sense to say "stay tuned" on YouTube, but everyone still knows what it means and thinks nothing of it, even people who have probably never actually watched a TV channel via terrestrial transmission.
Glenn Fleishman@scalzi Ask a kid for the hand gesture they use to indicate "call me"
elle mundy@exchgr So detailed, it even has the lock switch on it
@glennf fine work from microsoft lol
@exchgr My 16 y.o. and I were watching this amazing early 80s Commodore 64 instructional video—really, truly well done—and the guy pulls out a 5 1/4-inch floppy. I said, “Oh, I used even bigger ones—8 inch!” My 16 y.o. says, “Did they store more data?” Me: “No. Much less.” And we all laughed for about five minutes.
@glennf i remember the first time i saw one of those in person. it was in the overlapping era between 3 1/2” and flash drives, in my middle school’s computer lab. somebody had dragged a computer with an 8” drive one out of some supply closet, i think for data migration. it was, as the kids say, an absolute unit
@exchgr 8-inch chongus
Steven Heywood
Stygian Lizard@Stevenheywood @glennf @exchgr it blows my mind now to think that there were whole games on those 3½ disks. And then some were really data heavy and you had to insert disk B to keep playing.
Greg Pak