• The Short but Interesting Story Behind the Power Symbol - [LGR Retrospective]
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Doing a software engineering course and being really interested in tech and all that I never realised that the "| and O" on the switches are for 1 and 0. :downs:
When there's not much on my mind, I often see something and remind myself that behind everything manmade there's someone who thought about it at least once and decided to design it this way. From complex machinery like trains, planes and power plants to numbers or text used in media to fill canvas space just so it doesn't look out of place. It makes me notice and appreciate designs which are often invisible to us or of which we subconsciously thought they existed since the beginning of time. Even though I often encountered binary systems, it somehow never occured to me that it's a one and a zero. Neat.
That's weird, I thought the circle meant an electric circuit, and the line meant a switch that breaks the circuit, turning it on and off. Never thought of these symbols as 0 and 1
[QUOTE=DasMatze;52054454]When there's not much on my mind, I often see something and remind myself that behind everything manmade there's someone who thought about it at least once and decided to design it this way. From complex machinery like trains, planes and power plants to numbers or text used in media to fill canvas space just so it doesn't look out of place. It makes me notice and appreciate designs which are often invisible to us or of which we subconsciously thought they existed since the beginning of time. Even though I often encountered binary systems, it somehow never occured to me that it's a one and a zero. Neat.[/QUOTE] Brought to you via XKCD: [IMG]https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/work.png[/IMG] [QUOTE][B]Work[/B] Despite it being imaginary, I already have SUCH a strong opinion on the cord-switch firing incident.[/QUOTE]
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