Oh I do: this is exactly the sort of pedantic argument that online forums were full of 20+ years ago. "It's 'GNU/Linux', not 'Linux'!" followed by an essay. "That's not 'free software', that's 'open source'!" followed by an essay. "It's 'the world wide web', not 'the internet'!" followed by an essay.
Rare to see this now, so I assume someone who still engages in it is from that era.
Well, you're not wrong there. That still happens, but it happens 140 characters at a time now, so now arguments are not only pedantic but oversimplified and meaningless. I actually miss the days of 10 paragraph long blog posts arguing over meaningless minutiae. It was funny and sometimes informative.
He's also not wrong though. Nobody under 40 calls it a flat screen TV.
I miss it too, kinda. The frequency at which it occurred sometimes became tiresome.
But in any case, I am close to that age cutoff and have used more CRTs than LCDs in my life; so I think I have earned the right to call it a "flat screen".
I'm not sure you fully understand what the phrase "dates the speaker" means.
Oh I do: this is exactly the sort of pedantic argument that online forums were full of 20+ years ago. "It's 'GNU/Linux', not 'Linux'!" followed by an essay. "That's not 'free software', that's 'open source'!" followed by an essay. "It's 'the world wide web', not 'the internet'!" followed by an essay.
Rare to see this now, so I assume someone who still engages in it is from that era.
Well, you're not wrong there. That still happens, but it happens 140 characters at a time now, so now arguments are not only pedantic but oversimplified and meaningless. I actually miss the days of 10 paragraph long blog posts arguing over meaningless minutiae. It was funny and sometimes informative.
He's also not wrong though. Nobody under 40 calls it a flat screen TV.
I miss it too, kinda. The frequency at which it occurred sometimes became tiresome.
But in any case, I am close to that age cutoff and have used more CRTs than LCDs in my life; so I think I have earned the right to call it a "flat screen".