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Time, caught and pinned like a butterfly so it can buzz again later.
means A captured copy of sound, images, or data preserved so it can be played back later.
from From Latin recordari, to remember by heart — literally re- (again) plus cor (heart); to record was once to learn by heart, long before machines did the remembering for us.
First recording1860 French ditty, decades before playback existed.
Heart rootsLatin cor — early memorizing was cardiac, not digital.
Edison's surpriseHe built the phonograph for dictation, not music.