Hah, #OnThisDay in 1899, The New York Times first used the word "automobile".
"There is something uncanny about these newfangled vehicles. They are all unutterably ugly and never a one of them has been provided with a good or even an endurable name."
https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/jan-3-york-times-first-uses-word-automobile-141419769.html
#OTD #history #news #cars #automobile #NYT #NewYorkTimes
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Glatorius@troet.cafe · 3 pts · 1y
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online That's right, the names took a while to get right. The next version,
Six Passenger Hydrocarbon Motor Carriage GT
had a much better ring to it.
MichaelPorter@ottawa.place · 3 pts · 1y
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Mystifying that "Hippomobile" didn't catch on with the marketers 😄
stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 2 pts · 1y
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NeadReport@social.vivaldi.net · 1 pts · 1y
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
1890's Marketing Team: Steampunk has been used. How do we name something as ugly as these?
Time-traveling me, from the back of the room: "Cyberpunk"