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The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always thought zip drives were another term for flash drives because so many people just used the terms interchangably.

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

Reminds me of how everyone is now misusing the term "ROM" to mean "Storage" when it actually means "Read-Only Memory". Drives me nuts every time I see it in advertising.

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

It's funny to me that things like EEPROM are considered ROM. Like, ok, I can write to it? Read only, huh?