Timeline for Why do we refer to computers and other machines as being up or down?
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| S Jul 21, 2022 at 6:30 | history | suggested | user50720 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2017 at 16:53 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | Of course, in the case of an aircraft, the use of "down" for inoperative is hardly metaphorical. OTOH, we might wonder why an explosion is said to blow something up. Of course if something on the ground explodes, the debris that flies upward is more visible, and a greater cause for concern, than that which immediately hits the ground. But this argument does not seem to be valid when the target is already elevated. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 18:55 | comment | added | Dewi Morgan | 8 years after moving from UK to US, I still go for the wrong lightswitches alll the time, because of this: more often than not, I turn off the ceiling fan rather than turn on the light, because my brain will not accept that all the switches in my life have flipped. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 17:14 | comment | added | Josh Beam | @matt great point, I had no idea about that. Now I'm interested to find out why there's that difference... | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 13:37 | comment | added | matt | Strangely, the default orientation of light switches in the UK was the other way up from the US. Harder to tell now switches tend to have rockers rather than toggles... or be touch switches or rotary. But it makes me suspect that light switch orientation is not the reason for power up / power down. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 19:00 | history | answered | Josh Beam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |