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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

My favorite part of this is that the single-choice circular option control is (or used to be) called a "radio button". I wonder what fraction of people today have any idea why it's called that. I guess we're lucky it's not called a "light switch button" since it's been 80+ years since light switches were like that.

Ask me about the "high beam switch" lol.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why call radio button

What about high beamers

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

TIL! I'm a dev so I know what they're called but I never bothered to check why that is

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