The Making of Sense @makingofsense

Deep Histories of the User Experience Philadelphia Joined December 2015

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The Making of Sense @makingofsense

7 years ago

The peace symbol was based the semaphore signals for "N" and "D," the initial letters in "nuclear disarmament."

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A Babylonian map from around 500 BCE, the oldest known map of the world.

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The first X-ray image, “Hand With Ring” by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, 1895.

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7 years ago

The use of quotation marks here is cause for concern.

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7 years ago

These are Brahmi numerals from the 1st century. The glyphs for 1, 2, and 3 are based on tally marks. 4 is an intersection. The rest may have been based on visual metaphors, but of what we can no longer tell.

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Steve Burdette @AbhorrentVacuum

7 years ago

@OriginsOfTheUX “Twit” in “twitpics”, “twitterati”, “twitterverse”?

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Steve Burdette @AbhorrentVacuum

7 years ago

@OriginsOfTheUX “Uber-“ as in “she’s uberpopular”

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7 years ago

Can you think of any recently coined morphemes (word parts)? For example... - the prefix "-e" ("email," "ecommerce") - the suffix "-gate" ("Monicagate," "Russiagate")

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8 years ago

Here is the series intro. youtube.com/watch?v=Jfosh3…

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8 years ago

Here is a new episode of my video series, Origins of the User Experience. youtu.be/swqd2zMunow via @YouTube

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8 years ago

The first touchscreen user interface was developed in 1972 for the control room of the particle accelerator at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research).

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8 years ago

@AbhorrentVacuum Yes, that's the new focus.

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8 years ago

@LokeshBharani @bvanand24 What’s a dp?

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8 years ago

@EmmanuelJabiro Mitochondrial DNA passes down only through the female line. So there is a Mitochondrial Eve, but no Mitochondrial Adam.

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9 years ago

@cberrl No, I haven't seen it, but it sounds interesting. I'll try to check it out.

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All Things Risk @RiskThings

9 years ago

How did everything come to be the way it is? Check out our fascinating chat with Kevin Knabe of @makingofsense allthingsrisk.co.uk/2016/05/17/ep-…

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9 years ago

@MaryJeanAdams Different languages have different numbers of phonemes. A phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of sound in a language. For example, the word "things" is composed of four phonemes: th, i, ng, and z.