alt Hacker News"analog" cameras?
One brings to mind the common misconception of the young that all physical media (including dad's CDs) is analogue, and that 'digital' refers only to 'computer' data.
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gonzalohm • today at 11:43 AM
Analog in the sense that they are mechanical objects. I have never heard of analog CDs. Analog would be vinyl
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I don't know if "the youth" are doing this, but if they are, the generation before probably bears a lot of the blame!
Digital Tax! Digital camera! Digital marketing! Digital distribution! Digital radio! Digital TV! Digital download!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Digital
All of these had previously had a digital component to them. It was just the proximal user-facing part being digitised (or the introduction of a computer) that gave the marketing department license to use the word 'digital'. Maybe it was over-cooked a bit.