whys a thread called a thread?

[Deleted member 23974]

How peculiar .. why that name?

 

[cancercell]

I’m stroking my meat rn

 

[Deleted member 21048]

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[Deleted member 23974]

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[c0pemaxxer]

i think it's because it's a thread

 

[Deleted member 23974]

i think it's because it's a thread

i think theres probably an origin for it

 

[Deleted member 23974]

i think it's because it's a thread

ill search it up later and report back

 

[Deleted member 23974]

@c0pemaxxer

I did some searching around.. what my research indicates is that the term 'thread' as used in a forum has its origin in computing terminology, meaning something like a sequence of instructions to be executed..

so a thread is like the succession of posts following the op

 

[Deleted member 24278]

Mirin non water thread

 

[Brus Wane]

How peculiar .. why that name?

It should just be called post tbh

 

[c0pemaxxer]

@c0pemaxxer

I did some searching around.. what my research indicates is that the term 'thread' as used in a forum has its origin in computing terminology, meaning something like a sequence of instructions to be executed..

so a thread is like the succession of posts following the op

so its just a thread after all

 

[Deleted member 23974]

so its just a thread after all

yes kind of .. its something like mimicking the action of sewing nd threading.. the needle moving through from one section to the next