Oct 28, 2023
times an Advent of Computing episode has provided additional background for some technological feature Terry Pratchett put in a Discworld novel: at least 2 times an Advent of Computing episode has made me go "wait how is that spelled? does this suggest that Andrew Hussie was into the history of phreaking?": once
#actually both of these things happened in the phreaking episode#(the Discworld tidbit is actually re some history of telephony and clacks stuff. specifically “trunk lines”)#but the other of Pterry interest is Fluidic Computing re Making Money#(I think from the sound—no idea how the name's actually spelled—that Terezi could be named after someone??!)#advent of computing
