On 2 Nov 2023 08:54 +0100, from to...@tuxteam.de: >> What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems >> fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging >> folder icon in their file browsers. > > This is Microsoft jargon. Eek.
I don't have a reference handy, but I do distinctly recall reading that Microsoft introduced the term "folder" specifically to also be able to refer to a concept of "something which is _not_ a directory but containing a collection of some kind of items". Things like "My Computer", "Network Neighborhood", "Printers", "Control Panel" and so on. IBM also used the term "folder" no later than by OS/2 2.0 [1], but I'm not sure how far-ranging their usage of the term was. That would be contemporary with early betas of Windows 95, which introduced the term in Microsoft's ecosystem (they used the term "folder" in mid-1993[2], and Wikipedia puts a first OS/2 2.0 release at October 1991). [1]: http://toastytech.com/guis/os220.html (bottom screenshot in particular) [2]: http://toastytech.com/guis/chic58.html -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
