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When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? (lemmy.world)
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[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In modern language the way language is used and perceived determines its meaning and not its origins.

So we should start calling monitors computers, desktop towers modems (or CPUs (or hard drives)), wifi as internet, browsers as search engines and search engines as browsers. None of this is incorrect, according to the average person.