Comment on Which way round is a wired computer mouse?
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uh, I think you’re kinda taking the name a bit too literally. Computer mice are just a tool used for controlling a computer.
Comment on Which way round is a wired computer mouse?
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uh, I think you’re kinda taking the name a bit too literally. Computer mice are just a tool used for controlling a computer.
Eavolution@kbin.social 1 year ago
I absolutely am, but they must have been named after regular mice, so idk what way it was originally envisaged.
freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 year ago
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The first computer mouse was apparently more of a block.
I imagine it got its name from the ‘tail’ part, and the fact that it now looks mouse-like is mostly a co-incidence of it now being more ergonomically shaped.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Could be both, to be honest. I’ve seen old mouses where the ears were on the buttons, and others where the tail is the cable
octoperson@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
floppy@rabbitea.rs 1 year ago
Apparently mouses is correct for computer mice but I don’t subscribe to that train of thought at all.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Yeah, it’s been a while since I last used mice