Feelings - Why you cannot win an argument on the internet - John Stuart Mill (1869)

[ChristineM]

It was, but computers had vacuum tubes.

Nope. Computers had gears

 

[Heyo]

Oh, you're right.
(The bear is right about something for once.)
Here is an 1860s WORM memory device.....

How many kids here know what "WORM" means?

Not only did we have WORM, we also had WOM.

 

[Heyo]

Feelings, IMO, are the feedback system by which the unconscious mind communicates to the conscious self, designed by evolution. So I try to set my feelings aside but it's not really that easy. Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution you're trying to defeat.

Year, stupid feelings, absolutely useless and usually bring only trouble. Or so I thought long ago. The secret is to listen to your feelings and analyse why you have them - and then discard them.

 

[ChristineM]

How many kids here know what "WORM" means?

Simple

Weed Only Random Memory ;-)

 

[BSM1]

Simple

Weed Only Random Memory ;-)

Dude! You had me at 'Weed Only"...

 

[Revoltingest]

WORM = Write Once, Read Many

 

[Milton Platt]

It was, but computers had vacuum tubes.

And if you let the fire go out, you had to reboot.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Oh gosh, if I took that advice, I wouldn't be growing gray hairs trying to distinguish facts, fiction, opinions, and waste.

 

[ChristineM]

WORM = Write Once, Read Many

Aww come on... thats not funny

 

[Revoltingest]

Aww come on... thats not funny

It was inconvenient & wasteful.
USB drives are so much better.

 

[ChristineM]

It was inconvenient & wasteful.
USB drives are so much better.

But it worked.

 

[Revoltingest]

But it worked.

Better than floppies anyway.

 

[Heyo]

But it worked.

One out of 10 was actually a WOM (Write Only Memory). You had to eject (to make sure the buffer got flushed) and run a verify.

 

[Harel13]

Was the internet around in 1869!

My thoughts exactly...