The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.
The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.
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I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.
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And a good chunk of our buildings, as well.
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Maybe in America. I live in the UK and my house is 150 years old. I grew up in one that's nearly 300 years old.
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So am I!
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I'm just glad the term "talkies" didn't catch on.
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You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".
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Just wait for when "walkies" really take off with VR movies
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I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.
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Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies... wait .. oh no..
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I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.
Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.
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You should take longer showers so that you can think a bit more.
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Bird is the word
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What is the word movie?
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"movie", the word.
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Maybe this one
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It's a word movie, how do you not know this? /s
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