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an infinite scroll engineered so you forget you were ever full
means To give food or nourishment to a person, animal, or system — or, in modern usage, a continuous stream of content delivered to you online.
from From Old English 'fedan,' to nourish or sustain, rooted in the same ancient source as 'food' (Proto-Germanic '*fodjan'). For most of its life 'feed' meant exactly what it sounds like: putting food into a mouth. The mechanical sense — feeding paper into a press, then data into a machine — grew in the industrial age, and from there it slid effortlessly into our screens, where the thing being fed is now you.
- endless design
- Infinite scroll was invented in 2006 by Aza Raskin
- creator's regret
- Raskin later apologized for the time it stole
- farm roots
- The word first meant giving food to animals
- no bottom
- Designed specifically to have no natural stopping point
- algorithm fuel
- Engagement, not chronology, decides what you see
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