I ran across this blog post recently and it reminded me of something else I had observed a while back. Thought I’d share both: 11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard”
I was noticing there are quite a few old school items and terminology that made their way into today’s technology, the origins of which the next generation will not understand:
- Carbon Copy – CC on an email vs the old dye coated sheet sandwiched between two sheets of paper and ran through a typewriter
- Floppy Disk – what in the world is that little save symbol on most editing tools (word processing, image editors, etc)?
- Cut-n-Paste – scissors? what does that have to do with a computer? Use to have to really cut from one piece of paper and paste/tape it onto another piece of paper
- Clipboard – that really was a place you put your work in process until you were ready to file it away in a folder, which brings up… Folders
- Clip Art – had to really clip those little pictures out of magazines and newspapers
- Filmstrip – use to be a series of still frame photos attached together
These are just a few I see in the toolbars of some readily available applications.