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I just explained to someone in the office what CC means and what carbon copy meant back in the day.

Like the icon for saving (floppy disk) no longer is relevant, I had to laugh at another abbreviation in the office that while it still means “make a copy” it no longer uses the methodology it once did.

And yes, we have an ancient box of carbon paper still in our office.

Old.  Dried out. Probably should throw it away.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Yes, “Old.  Dried out. Probably should throw it away.”

Probably applies to yours truly and many others who post on this site as well as the leadership and candidates for leadership positions in the US government.

But then again I probably should not go there.

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I don’t think we should go to a Logan’s run sort of utopia where when you hit 30 you are over the hill.  SOME people may need to retire, but there is also something said about having older folks around that know the legacy and history of a company and of technology.   Now carbon paper, probably can throw that away.

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Can we also throw away the:

• Desk blotter,
• Fountain Penn and ink well,
• Mechanical desk top adding machine with a paper tape,
• Rolodex (a rotating card file used to store contact information),
• String, with a spring clip attached, hanging down the dumbwaiter shaft from the second-floor business office to the sales floor for moving paper documents around,
• Mechanical cash register,
• Washboard,
• Incandescent light bulbs,
• Trips to the bank, on the way home from work, to deposit the days cash receipts,
• Mechanical Typewriter or for that matter an IBM Selectric (electric) typewriter,
• Bottle of whiteout used to make corrections to typed pages,
• Telegraph key (The front end of the communications system that transmitted and received simple unmodulated electric impulses (messages) between two points directly connected by wires), and
• Private rail car with a staff of three, living room, dining room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms with showers, galley kitchen, and staff quarters used for first class travel  https://live.staticflickr.com/5332/30907877145_7ed4b85f5d_b.jpg

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Like “hanging up” the phone. Kids would have no idea we did that literally. Or why pressing the numbers to call someone is called “dialing.”

People still use “filming” when taking videos with a cell phone sometimes. It’s somehow even funnier when they say videotaping… just as incorrect, but somehow more deliberately wrong.

Downloading and uploading have gotten completely twisted. When I see a PDF I want to save in Firefox, I have to press the button “download this document” or something like that. It quite obviously has already been downloaded, or I would not be seeing it on my screen. I want to save that copy that is in the browser cache, not download it again. “Save” is not “Download!”

I have at least one program that is worse, and it is in the same family as Firefox. It’s BlueGriffon, the rusting remains of what used to be the HTML editor in the Mozilla suite (Composer). The save button uses an upload icon (a generic page icon with an arrow pointing up), while the load button uses a download icon– exactly opposite of how most other programs use the download icon to mean save.

If I were downloading the document directly from a server, then publishing it to that server without ever saving it locally (!), the icons would make more sense, but the document-with-down-arrow icon brings up a file load dialog, not a URL entry dialog, while the document-with-up-arrow icon saves in the location where the file was initially loaded.

These icons make no sense.

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Or why the character at the end of a line of text is called a “carriage return”.

And don’t forget how us old geezers told the time using old “analog” clocks with actual hands on them.

Most young’uns likely have no idea why we say “quarter past”, “half past” or “quarter til” even when they know we mean 15 mins after, 30 mins after and 15 mins til.

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People still use “filming” when taking videos with a cell phone sometimes.

I also hear “footage” being used in place of video, and and I love this:

Merriam-Webster defines “footage” many different ways as it applies, but the first definition  at the top of the list on the web site is:

1: recorded video material

What’s old is new again.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/footage

 

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I seem to remember a long time ago,  prior to Windows when I used to use Carbon paper to keep track of the, shall we say, “economies with the truth” in resumes.

Now of course its all electronic, just don’t “attach” the unexpurgated version, let”s just say it may be detrimental to longevity of Employment. Now it can be told  lol 😉

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In our household, we still talk about “taping” TV shows and movies from cable channels onto the DVR or PC.

I have a VHS/DVD combo player-recorder and a Sony Betamax in my office, all in working order.  🙂

 

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Kathy Stevens wrote:

Incandescent light bulbs,

No no still need them. LEDS just not there yet. Waiting for a 150 Watt equivalent that fits in a regular lamp socket. Still not finding a 300 watt equivalent torchiere floor lamp that suits me.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

And yes, we have an ancient box of carbon paper still in our office.

Old. Dried out. Probably should throw it away.

No No
Is it museum quality??

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