Re: folders (was Re: Why can't I move the document root for a site in Apache 2? [SOLVED])
In fact it used to be called directory, before GUI shells emerged.
So MS DOS to dispaly content of "folder" used command named dir.
Cheers,
Marek Mosiewicz
W dniu wto, 01.09.2020 o godzinie 06∶48 -0400, użytkownik The Wanderer
napisał:
> On 2020-09-01 at 04:29, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is
> > beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they?
>
> As I understand matters, it's an extension of the "desktop" metaphor.
>
> Back before computers (and to some extent afterward), people used to
> keep files - in the form of physical, paper documents - sorted in
> manila
> folders, and only pull them out of those folders onto the tops of
> their
> desks for actual use; when computers came along and "desktop" was
> invented as a metaphor for a hopefully-intutive user-interface
> paradigm,
> they called the things you could use to sort files apart from one
> another so that they didn't all appear on the desktop at once
> "folders"
> in an effort to make that similarly intuitive.
>
> And then the terminology stuck.
>
> It probably doesn't hurt that a common way to display them
> graphically
> is in a nested, hierarchical tree style; the way a branch of the tree
> collapses when the nodes under it are hidden can be intuitively-
> enough
> called "folding", much as a similar hiding collapse in your more
> advanced code-focused text editor is commonly called "code folding"
> or
> "syntax folding". But I think that's secondary.
>
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