Meanwhile historians are out there, regarding things from 500 years ago as modern.

This doesn't change the meaning of the word modern, though. It just uses a different scale. The same way the Moon is "right next to" the Earth.

However, when you tie the word "new" or in this case "modern" to a time period that was over a hundred years ago you are just setting yourself up for failure and have to make do with calling things "after new" or in this case "post modern". But then where will this end?

What was wrong with calling periods proper names like Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic?

> What was wrong with calling periods proper names like Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic?

Eras only get these proper names long after they're over. To people living during those eras, they were just "now".

Most of the games I play are resource management or base/city building games. I haven't bothered checking if a game works in the last few years, I just fork over my money at this point.

I think the closest to a AAA game was Anno 1800 and Mount&Blade Bannerlord, both worked fine. All the current popular city builders work fine (eg. Timberborn, Foundation, Manor Lords). A lot of the games I play are early access too, or the pre-release stream.

The one game that didn't work was Bongo Cat, which is free anyway. The devs are working on an X11 version though, and it's practically a whimsical keylogger, so it might not appeal to fans of Linux anyway!

I'm guessing they're thinking of the word 'money'.

yeah, but, .. Barrett Strong or Flying Lizards money?

Let's have a moment of silence for the hair follicles of future archaeologists.

I've never even connected the 'X' to the Greek letter chi. I just kinda accepted it as one of many groovy web 2.0 misspellings in search of a domain and trademark.

This is particularly funny because arXiv doesn't just predate Web 2.0, it nearly predates the public web entirely (only missing it by about two weeks)

The accounting of it all would be far from trivial.

You might be interested to read about whistled languages, which is pretty close to that idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language

I know Norwegian also has two different written standards, found an example that demonstrates it:

>English: I will not tell anyone the secret.

>Bokmål: Jeg skal ikke fortelle hemmeligheten til noen.

>Nynorsk: Eg skal ikkje fortelja løyndomen til nokon.

Source: https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/norwegian-la...

Yeah, so really there are at least 3 translations of Lord of the Rings, to continue that example, and I was being a typical Bokmål user and ignored Nynorsk.

The title differences are also a good illustration of how different it can be:

Bokmål: Kampen om Ringen, Ringenes Herre (the first one is literally "the battle for the ring")

Nynorsk: Ringdrotten

I'd assume you can get USB floppy drives for 3½" disks pretty cheaply. I think I might've even seen that in my BIOS settings as an option.