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ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 6 days ago

Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

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Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

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ShowerthoughtsEnglish • 6 days ago

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I think video is still referred to as “footage”. That is, how many feet long the tape is.

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