Telling my kids BC means Before Computer and AD means After Death
brhydon · x · 2026-10-22
A one-liner making the rounds in tech circles: the author jokes he'll tell his kids that BC stands for "Before Computer" and AD for "After Death" — a calendar-abbreviation gag that treats computing as the dividing line of history.
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