I noticed that at some point the “My…”. Switched to a “You” branding. YouTube, yougov, youpic, YouNow, …
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fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It started with making office computers personable for home use in Windows 95 e.g. “My Computer”, “My Documents”.
This carried on into web services like My Yahoo, or terms like My Account.
Smashing it into one word was also a thing back in the late 90s / early 00s because it (a) was easy for searching in older search engines and (b) sounded like Apple’s iPod, iMac etc (MyPod, MyMac).
Continued use today is usually because of either (a) it’s been called that for a couple of decades already or (b) the product manager is themselves old and has forgotten how old the trend of trying to make those new fangled computerybobs sound welcoming and friendly.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
IndigoGollum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve been using Linux for so long i’d almost forgotten Windows does that. Just calling it “Documents” and not having to worry about a space in the file path breaking things is so much easier.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s no place like
/homei_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t anymore. I think they dropped the My with Vista? Certainly it was gone by Windows 7.