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What's the craziest thing you were told by your friends as a child? (programming.dev)
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Nothing serious, this is for fun. My example was a friend told me you get computer viruses if you use disks that were dropped on the ground outside. His logic was he was told you get sick if you eat stuff off the ground. Sickness is caused by viruses. Computers can get viruses. Computers "eat" floppy disks. So if you put a dirty floppy into a computer you will make it sick by giving it a virus.

Yes it's mostly wrong but you can sorta see the logic...

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[-] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Wait... Doesn't bc stand for before christ? I know there's also bce which is before common era which is effective the same thing but just renamed...

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Well maybe I'm wrong on both!!

[-] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I know ad doesn't stand for after death but for anno domain is or something... Its latin for in the year of the lord. That's why it supposed to start when christ was born, not when he died. Otherwise there would be a 31 year gap between bc and ad

[-] duckshuffgoose@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I was literally taught there was a 31 year gap between the ages, because evangelicals are special

[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Did they give a "name" to those years?

[-] duckshuffgoose@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I honestly can't recall. Probably?

[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Fair enough.

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