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so computer papers don't fall out i think (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Go back 40/50 years, and most people then thought of directories as an index (see telephone directory), and folders were thing that contained/were files within a filing cabinet.

I still have a hard time calling them folders, it gives me a little eye twitch to say "folder", though I know the icon is a folder, and it makes it easier for the average person to grok.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck the icon. You don’t mkfold you mkdir. You don’t cf you cd. They’re obviously directories.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Lol, preach!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeeeah, I'm there, too. It helps that in my native language people still use "directory" frequently. It's an obscure enough word that it just took on that primary meaning smoothly. Folder is more confusing.

I always felt that way, even at the time. All the skeuomorphism seems silly now, but it felt even sillier coming from DOS and being used to things being very abstract before.

[–] person420 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did you just throw grok in there? That's awesome. I've never seen anyone do that before.

After looking, not only does Webster's Dictionary list it as a real word, it lists it as the only English word derived from Martian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s definitely a word you get exposed to the deeper into Unix shit you get, until you inevitably wind up using it yourself.