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by andrewp123 761 days ago
The word dynamic was popular in naming around that time - dynamic programming is another example (1950s).

Somehow just by internalizing the old meaning of the world “dynamic”, I feel I have a better idea of what the world felt like back then.

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Fuller hired a wordsmith, who hung around for a few days listening to the way he spoke and then invented the word Dymaxion for him.
It is no different than someone saying their product has "AI" nowadays
I learned to program in dynamically typed languages and all I got was an undefined t-shirt
T is a perfectly cromulent type.