I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.
Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.
I’m just glad the term “talkies” didn’t catch on.
You think that’s bad, Lumiere’s father in law wanted him to call the new invention “Domitor” instead of “Cinema”.
Or in alternate reallity: “You think that’s bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention “Cinema” before his father in law reasoned with him to call it “Domitor”.”
@Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, “dominator”. He thought it would dominate.
They ended up going with the Greek word “kínēma” which means movement, hence movie cameras were “cinematographs” - movement writers.
But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :)
It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix “ie” to anything when something new was invented
Don’t forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on…
Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies… wait … oh no…
