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Knocking down giants so your house can stand up.
means The work of cutting down trees and hauling away the timber, typically as an industry — and, in computing, the act of recording events or data over time.
from Rooted in "log," the Old Norse-derived word "lág" for a felled tree or trunk, which English took up by the 14th century. The trade of cutting timber gave us "logging." The computing sense rides on a sailor's pun: ships once measured speed by tossing a "log" (a wooden float) overboard and timing it, recording the result in the "logbook" — so "to log" came to mean keeping a running record, and that meaning sailed into the digital world.
- old growth
- Some felled trees predate the Roman Empire
- deadly job
- Among the most dangerous occupations on Earth
- spring poles
- Sprung saplings have killed and maimed loggers
- log drives
- Rivers once carried timber in deadly floating stampedes
- the word
- Computer logs are named after ship speed logs
amazon rainforest logging — illegal operations removing ~10,000 trees daily across brazil, peru, and bolivia
canadian boreal forest logging — british columbia and alberta harvest ~200 million cubic meters annually
southeast asian logging — indonesia and malaysia lost ~3.7 million hectares to deforestation 2000-2020
siberian taiga logging — russia's far east supplies ~40% of global timber exports, primarily larch and spruce