Spool: etymology, origin and how a quiet object learned to hold things together
Long before timelines, feeds and clouds, there was the simple problem of length. Thread that tangled. Wire that kinked. Film that tore. Memory that snapped if mishandled. Spool is the word that grew around the solution to that problem, a quiet acknowledgement that continuity, if it is to survive use, needs discipline.
Long before timelines, feeds and clouds, there was the simple problem of length. Thread that tangled. Wire that kinked. Film that tore. Memory that snapped if mishandled. Spool is the word that grew around the solution to that problem, a quiet acknowledgement that continuity, if it is to survive use, needs discipline.
