this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
2579 points (98.0% liked)

Technology

59583 readers
3037 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By the way, "joystick" was kinda rude back in the day, but nobody even notices now.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

glad that changed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disco stick, as in

"Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Liking disco sticks don't make me gay

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia seems to suggest it was an original term, first recorded use in 1909, and mentions nothing about alternative terms or controversy. I call BS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it.

I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick.

We still laugh about it sometimes.