Star On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 22nd Nov 2008 23:05 UTC
In the News When you're diving into the history of computing and its concepts, you rarely have to look much further back in time than the Second World War. It happens sometimes, but not that often. However, there are exceptions - and this is one that really boggles the mind: the pixel? One of those little dots on your screen? It's well over 400 years old.
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rklrkl
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2005-07-06

Just in case you did a double-take on that alphabet image in the article, there were indeed 24 letters in the (medieval) Latin alphabet (no J or U) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_alphabet

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unclefester Member since:
2007-01-13

Actually there was no J or W in the Latin alphabet. Hence the letter W is called (and often written as) 'double U'.

Italian doesn't use J either. The letter G is pronounced like the English letter J.

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