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  • misterhow12

    I have called my computer ‘my machine’ for years. Laptop, desktop, doesn’t matter. My machine.

    A. Where did I pick this up?
    2. Does anyone else do this?

    My wife has given me grief about this for a while now. She said I sound like an old timer who has never seen a computer before.

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    • Terminator 3hotroddy
    • I also do thissausages
    • Machine, rig, porn chest... it’s all goodfuturefood
    • You got it right.
      Your laptop is a computing machine, and the "computer" is the person whose job they replaced.      spl33nidoru
    • first time it felt weird when i saw a movie where kids call their motorbikes machine :)
      you're doing fine, in my native language its called "computing-machine".      sted
    • @spl33nidoru, funnyhotroddy
    • Yes machine. It’s pretty normalmonospaced
    • Yepthumb_screws
    • Yup_niko
    • spl33nidoru is spot on btw, they had human "computers" in WW2 at Bletchley Park before machines came alongsausages
    • Yup. It's a machine. Just sounds good. Computer makes you sound dumb.

      I remember laughing at my Nan for calling the TV remote the machine      Projectile
    • is it weird that it’s what i call myself?scruffics
    • If you want real grief with you wife, call her your 'machine'.SimonFFM
    • machine code, innitzardoz
    • I call it a machine, too, which is weird, actually. It's not a mechanical contraption, and there are no moving parts, except for the fan.Continuity
    • @future Lolmilfhunter
    • Depends on how early you got a "machine" the early hackers call it machine, also in books same, then the regulars got computers...grafician
    • PIITB and let's see if she runs her mouf again.palimpsest
    • i called it meta-machine because it can simulate all kind of medium..or cybernetic-machineneverscared
    • yes. its on my machine.robthelad
    • Ohh, as in how you refer to it in conversation? Aye, It's a 'machine'. What else would it be? Diverging opinions are incorrect.Nairn
    • lol, what nonsense is this about hackers before regulars? My grandfather referred to his computer as his machine in the 1980smonospaced
    • Oh, and so did all the regulars who early adopted before hacking was a thing. So...monospaced
    • clearly you're too young and disconnected from the computer world to really know this from experiencemonospaced
    • Are you guys in your early 70's?utopian
    • My first machine was a TI-99/4A. I really wondered if I picked up the term from sci-fi books or just from doing the work. I'm just glad I'm not the only onemisterhow
    • I call my "phone" my device.wordssssss
    • wait, I also do... in spanish! it's my maquina :Pmaquito
    • "my machine" - computer
      "my device" - phone
      "my vehicle" - car      stoplying
    • hey monospaced, if you need to google what rtfm means then stfugrafician
    • You got it from David Lee Roth. https://youtu.be/0zG…jagara
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