[eletious]

What were the actual ropes themselves made of? Just standard rope materials?

[c22]

Copper.

Edit: I found a neat video: https://youtu.be/X0WnddW5gZI

[laumars]

I’ve been programming for nearly 30 years and today I just learned that “bits” was derived from BInary digiTS.

That’s an amazing video. Thank you for posting it.

[MrEldritch]

Also, "pixels" is from "PICture ELements"

[kevin_thibedeau]

"pels" was an early designation.

[userbinator]

It's still used among video codec discussions, especially with the MPEG group.