• Chozo@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    For some reason, this reminds me of the origin of the term “footage”, when referring to filming something. In ye olden days, film was measured in feet. So to capture video on film, you were using up a certain amount of footage/length of film.

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    9 months ago

    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”.