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Why call radio button
What about high beamers
Radio buttons are named after the physical buttons that were used on old radios to select preset stations.[3][2] When one of the buttons is pressed, the other buttons pop out while leaving the pressed one pushed in.
From wiki
TIL! I'm a dev so I know what they're called but I never bothered to check why that is