12 Sep
2012
12 Sep
'12
10:32 p.m.
Meh.. I've seen webcam shots of the real world. The graphics aren't that
good. What I'm interested in is when I'm in these chatrooms, say not tied
to my desk, would you say I'm talking to these (wo)men via a laptop and
what's the first laptop I could chat to .. j/k
Just some more gas on the fire
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laptop but seriously.. how the
hell do they find it responsible to put the first known use of the world
"laptop" as 1984 and site absolutely no reference?!
Regardless I was curious just about the marketed term to predict what the
implied technology would have been. I unfortunately don't agree that a
laptop computer would have to be battery powered. It would just have to be
operationally useable on ones lap. I'm impressed with a lot of the found
examples though. Some interesting and I think useful comments.
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
Long after the advent of "laptop" computers,
"notebook" was re-introduced
>> by marketing to refer to small[er]
clamshell laptops.
>>
>
Arrrghhhhh! Everyone stop this madness. It doesn't fucking matter what
particular word we all individually think was "first" or "right". In
the
real world (gasp .... which some of us should get out of our labs and go
visit sometime, it's nice, there are women), everyone knows what a friggin'
laptop computer is .... and it's got batteries. Compass doesn't.