_number8_@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoThe music usage "album" refers to the original practice of creating an album book of several 78s bound as separate pages, like a stamp or photo album.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1imageThe music usage "album" refers to the original practice of creating an album book of several 78s bound as separate pages, like a stamp or photo album.lemmy.world_number8_@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year agoPut another way: The fields of modern digital audio file metadata contain keys descended from the specific features of data-storage technology from 1912. And people think it’s odd that we still use the floppy disk icon to mean “save”.
minus-squareSatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoHell, it has to be a steadily increasing number of people who don’t know what the phone icon is supposed to represent.
minus-squareDdhuud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoMotion to make this the telephone icon https://static.thenounproject.com/png/543415-200.png
minus-squareJo Miran@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoMom: “Your phone is ringing.” Son: “Could you answer it real quick while I wash my hands?” Mom: “How do I answer it?” Son: “Hit the buttplug.”
Put another way: The fields of modern digital audio file metadata contain keys descended from the specific features of data-storage technology from 1912.
And people think it’s odd that we still use the floppy disk icon to mean “save”.
Hell, it has to be a steadily increasing number of people who don’t know what the phone icon is supposed to represent.
Motion to make this the telephone icon
https://static.thenounproject.com/png/543415-200.png
Mom: “Your phone is ringing.”
Son: “Could you answer it real quick while I wash my hands?”
Mom: “How do I answer it?”
Son: “Hit the buttplug.”