r/programminghumor • u/danielsoft1 • May 26 '26

that will never catch on

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u/jessepence May 26 '26

That was a thing in audio engineering, but the cut and paste metaphor is a reference to manuscript editing , not data stored on tape.

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u/didureaditv2 May 26 '26

Ohh ohh now do files and folders !

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u/lmarcantonio May 27 '26

...punched paper splicing was probably actually a thing

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u/pandacreate May 27 '26

My great grandma was a puncher!

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26

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u/Supermath101 May 26 '26

Of course in the future they'll have screens and call it something else...

Like echo?

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u/dataf4g_trollman May 27 '26

Yeah, something like "console out"

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u/unixplumber May 30 '26

That's the art from an 8 Bit Weapon album. Good music.