myrmepropagandistfuturebird@sauropods.win
Nov 13, 2026, 11:37 AMRemember the old ways.
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Space Hobospacehobo@teh.entar.netNov 13, 2026, 11:38 AM@futurebird TEACH THE CHILDREN #LETRASET
- Space Hobospacehobo@teh.entar.netNov 13, 2026, 11:39 AM
@futurebird If you run out of "e"s, you can use a "c" and part of a spare symbol to complete it! Follow me for more letraset tips!
- myrmepropagandistfuturebird@sauropods.winNov 13, 2026, 11:42 AM
Last week I had to explain to my students that the "save symbol" wasn't just some random glyph but that it represented a floppy disk, an object that you would once save a file on. Long ago. In the olden days.
If I told them after about how things were before we invented fire I think they would have believed I was there for that one too.
Nov 13, 2026, 11:46 AM@futurebird @spacehobo
I once had to explain to somebody that the icon that some programming software had for "compiling" or somesuch was not a pie knife, but actually a trowel.It was, to be fair, a short-lived icon. Not really very clear, though it did make sense if you understood what it was.
- myrmepropagandistfuturebird@sauropods.winNov 13, 2026, 11:51 AM
As a child I didn't understand that this was a paint bucket. I think it was just too stylized.
I thought it was a graduation hat.
Linus Gasserligasser@social.epfl.chNov 13, 2026, 11:57 AM@futurebird @spacehobo lighting fire to cook the dinosaur you hunted, correct?
At least that's what we did, back in the good old days, when you had a 1% chance of dying during childbirth...
