@mur2501 @karin_artss there are what you might call "thin" applications, especially those that you download to your phone, which don't really do much unless they speak to a server, such as Facebook's servers, because that's where the data is. one would typically call a whole such application a "front-end" for the service. there are multiple levels here, bit like an onion... can get confusing.

@thor @mur2501 Woahhhh nice to know this clarification!

@karin_artss @mur2501 this breed of Internet-reliant apps is relatively new and weren't very prominent prior to the invention of the smartphone, which is how we ended up with these somewhat overlapping naming schemes.

@thor @karin_artss
Smartphones have changed the whole technology scenario, especially cause they reach a very wide audience

@mur2501 @thor Yeahhh I see...

@karin_artss @thor
I would suggest you dig in what's going on in the computer at the circuit level and some Assembly from above to understand the true power and difficulty of this beast of a machine.

@mur2501 @karin_artss you're going to give her PSTD

@thor @karin_artss
Her?

@mur2501 @thor I'm actually a woman :D

@karin_artss @thor
Holy cow
I thought Karin is a male name

@mur2501 @thor Don't worry about it, I'm totally cool with it and in fact a lot of Finns confuse their own names. Apparently everybody thinks that "Liinu" is a male name while it's female. "Liinus" on the other hand, is the male equivalent. As for "Karin" and "Kari", the first one is feminine and the latter one is masculine :'D

@karin_artss @thor
My surname literally means 'I have perfume'

@mur2501 @karin_artss mine is rather dull. it just means i'm somebody's son...

@thor @mur2501 I'm not even sure about mine but I bet it means a person who makes butter 😎

@karin_artss @thor
There is a very old famous cafe in Mumbai and the surname of the owners is 'Bottleopenerwala' which basically means 'the bottle opener one'

@mur2501 @thor At first it sounded like a cool surname but idk if it's just me but mixing English into other languages sounds wrong to me :'D

@karin_artss @thor
300 years of British rule was more wrong. Mixing English in everything is just it's outcome.

@mur2501 @thor No matter how much time passes, I still get shivers when I think about different colonies...

@karin_artss
Actually British were the last one to take interest in colonizing India. Portuguese, French and Dutch wanted the subcontinent. Dutch passed the rights of colonization of India to England after the Anglo-Dutch wars.

@mur2501 That sounds nasty tho... the fact that India was like a trophy everybody were fighting over

@karin_artss
The reason History textbooks exists in schools is not that we were great but we were evil.