Comment by tshaddox
5 days ago
I always think of the indexes in the back of books as the origin of the term in computing. The relationship to "index cards" never even occurred to me!
5 days ago
I always think of the indexes in the back of books as the origin of the term in computing. The relationship to "index cards" never even occurred to me!
Index cards are not different from index entries in a book. Index is “indicator” or “pointer” in Latin (hence the name of the finger).
Yeah, I've got the vocab, I just never associated index cards with that use case because growing up we only ever used index cards for labeling, note-taking, arts and crafts, and flash cards.