The Making of Sense

Deep Histories of the User Experience

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The peace symbol was based the semaphore signals for "N" and "D," the initial letters in "nuclear disarmament."

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A Babylonian map from around 500 BCE, the oldest known map of the world.

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The first X-ray image, “Hand With Ring” by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, 1895.

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The use of quotation marks here is cause for concern.

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These are Brahmi numerals from the 1st century. The glyphs for 1, 2, and 3 are based on tally marks. 4 is an intersection. The rest may have been based on visual metaphors, but of what we can no longer tell.

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@OriginsOfTheUX “Twit” in “twitpics”, “twitterati”, “twitterverse”?

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@OriginsOfTheUX “Uber-“ as in “she’s uberpopular”

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Can you think of any recently coined morphemes (word parts)?

For example...
- the prefix "-e" ("email," "ecommerce")
- the suffix "-gate" ("Monicagate," "Russiagate")

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Here is the series intro. https://t.co/9qgGIJL4rD

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Here is a new episode of my video series, Origins of the User Experience. https://t.co/GbNOfRQaS2 via @YouTube

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The first touchscreen user interface was developed in 1972 for the control room of the particle accelerator at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research).

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@AbhorrentVacuum Yes, that's the new focus.

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@LokeshBharani @bvanand24 What’s a dp?

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@EmmanuelJabiro Mitochondrial DNA passes down only through the female line. So there is a Mitochondrial Eve, but no Mitochondrial Adam.

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@cberrl No, I haven't seen it, but it sounds interesting. I'll try to check it out.

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How did everything come to be the way it is? Check out our fascinating chat with Kevin Knabe of @makingofsense https://t.co/ENH1cL3U41

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@MaryJeanAdams Different languages have different numbers of phonemes. A phoneme is the smallest meaningful unit of sound in a language. For example, the word "things" is composed of four phonemes: th, i, ng, and z.

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@DavidGGowing13 Terminal velocity does not falsify Newton's law of gravity. Air molecules follow Newton's laws, too. What math are you talking about?

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@ValkDesignHQ I am designing software for banks and financial advisors.

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@AdreanaInLB Basically, yes. With monsters.