RE: https://wikis.world/@aharoni/117178638396899103
If you ever needed a demostration that the fediverse doesn't represent the general population, here's one.
The only reason I know the term "radio button" is that
in the 1990s,
I read two books
about
Turbo Vision
and wrote a lot of code in
Turbo Pascal
with the knowledge I gained.
And sure, modern frontend technologies like HTML and Android use the term "radio button", too, but those 1990s books about Turbo Vision actually bothered to explain WHY are they called "radio buttons": Because American cars tend to have buttons to choose the stations and when one button is pressed, the others pop.
Modern car enterntainment systems don't use those buttons, but the term survives in frontend programming.
@Satsuma I can't recall seeing a new car with an old-school *radio* since... 2018? I only see "entertainment systems" that have touch screens and can often connect to Android or iPhone, or full-blown computer screens (especially in electric cars). But maybe there are still some cars with radios?..
(I"m talking about U.S. and Israel. Not sure about other countries.)