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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon is a child prodigy (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 248 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That guy's name?

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[–] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His mother wasn't creative

[–] Penguin_1024@piefed.zip 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He was born in 1898. The idea of digitizing information didn't really exist, much less the jpeg standard. I'say his mother was very creative.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

William James Sidis's mother, Sarah (Mandelbaum) Sidis, was a medical doctor who graduated from Boston University School of Medicine in 1897. Sarah and her family immigrated to the United States. in the late 1880s, escaping the pogroms in Russia. Sarah married psychiatrist and psychologist Boris Sidis in 1894.

Sounds like she lead a pretty interesting life as well.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think the closest thing back then was a fax, which could transmit monochromatic documents. Halftone (grayscale) fax was invented by Arthur Korn in 1902, enabling newspapers to send/receive photographs via telephone. That used mechanical parts, electronic ADCs were developed in the 1920s.

As for the newest word in the acronym: The word bit only appeared in 1946, the word bite (machine word) probably shortly after, spelled with a Y since 1956.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago

He's Bobby Tables' great uncle.