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

• c22 8y ago
  Copper. Edit: I found a neat video: https://youtu.be/X0WnddW5gZI https://youtu.be/X0WnddW5gZI
  • laumars 8y ago
    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 8y ago
      Also, "pixels" is from "PICture ELements"
      • kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
        "pels" was an early designation.
        • userbinator 8y ago
          It's still used among video codec discussions, especially with the MPEG group.
      • raimonides 8y ago
        And byte is 'by eight'