Firmware.b4dm4rk@seemel.ink to Technology@lemmy.world – 2639 points – 1 years ago218Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsBy the way, "joystick" was kinda rude back in the day, but nobody even notices now.What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.glad that changedIt could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?Disco stick, as in "Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick." Shes got a way with words.Liking disco sticks don't make me gaywhat ? why ?Wikipedia seems to suggest it was an original term, first recorded use in 1909, and mentions nothing about alternative terms or controversy. I call BSHe means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it. I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick. We still laugh about it sometimes.
By the way, "joystick" was kinda rude back in the day, but nobody even notices now.What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.glad that changedIt could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?Disco stick, as in "Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick." Shes got a way with words.Liking disco sticks don't make me gaywhat ? why ?Wikipedia seems to suggest it was an original term, first recorded use in 1909, and mentions nothing about alternative terms or controversy. I call BSHe means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it. I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick. We still laugh about it sometimes.
What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.glad that changedIt could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?Disco stick, as in "Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick." Shes got a way with words.Liking disco sticks don't make me gay
No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.glad that changedIt could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?
It could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?
It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?
Disco stick, as in "Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick." Shes got a way with words.Liking disco sticks don't make me gay
what ? why ?Wikipedia seems to suggest it was an original term, first recorded use in 1909, and mentions nothing about alternative terms or controversy. I call BSHe means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it. I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick. We still laugh about it sometimes.
Wikipedia seems to suggest it was an original term, first recorded use in 1909, and mentions nothing about alternative terms or controversy. I call BSHe means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it. I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick. We still laugh about it sometimes.
He means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it. I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick. We still laugh about it sometimes.
By the way, "joystick" was kinda rude back in the day, but nobody even notices now.
What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?
No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.
glad that changed
It could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...
It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.
Nowadays it's analog stick, where did all the joy go, I say?
Disco stick, as in
Shes got a way with words.
Liking disco sticks don't make me gay
what ? why ?
Wikipedia seems to suggest it was an original term, first recorded use in 1909, and mentions nothing about alternative terms or controversy. I call BS
He means rude as in people made a sexual innuendo out of it.
I remember in late 90s my brother bought a joystick. The brand was ThrustMaster. Literally, that was the name. ThrustMaster Joystick.
We still laugh about it sometimes.