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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (11 children)

The "digital replacement" nonsense is also why we now have "folders" instead of "directories". This thing gave me so many awkward flashbacks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (8 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 5 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] 3 points 4 months ago
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