19 Apr
2013
19 Apr
'13
2:49 p.m.
That's the reason why I have 18,131 unread
messages in my classiccmp
folder* :-)
* what did we call things before they were folders? I
always think
of it as a [MS] Windows term, but I can't think what the convention
for "a group of related stuff" was (aside from directories for files
on disk, of course)
As far as I can recall, there was no domain-independent term. For
filesystem objects, they were "directories". For saved email,
"mailboxes". Etc. Presenting them all as basically the same thing
visually, which is closely related to using the same word for them, I
too think of as Windows damage, but I don't know whether they invented
it or merely popularized it.
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