Re: trivia: origin of names for UPPER() and LOWER()

Mark Townsend wrote:
> Randy Harris wrote:
>
>> There are places where young people have never even seen
>> a rotary dial phone.
>
> Which is why the phrase 'dial tone' is fast becoming an anachronsim.
> Does anyone have any others ?

To the OP (++ mcs): perhaps MAJUSCULE() and MINUSCULE() would have been slightly more portable function names? ;-)

To the follow-on question on anachronisms, here are three (3):

• Disc Jockey (also: DeeJay, DJ) -- one who plays music which is pre-recorded onto discs for the entertainment of others
• Boob tube -- American and Canadian slang refering to cathode ray tubes, not the British meaning ;-) and I don't even know what the Australians think it means...
• "Burning out" a light bulb -- do the newer "curly-fry" fluorescent bulbs ("Last 10 times longer! Bulb using only 18 watts! Uses 70% Less Energy! Contains Mercury! Costs $1 USD at local store, but only if you go to the back room!) actually have anything like a filament to burn out?

And, not an anachronism:

Why does one burn MP3's onto an audio CD, but the inverse is to rip an audio CD into MP3's? Couldn't it have been "un-burn" or "de-rip" instead?

-Mark Bole Received on Thu Dec 29 2005 - 20:09:12 CST