Reposted by Bramha Ghosh
It's a term with a 70 year history in comp sci for the discrete units of text that are bigger than characters but smaller than words when the computer chops them up for parsing.
And now it sounds like everyone is taking their models to play skee-ball at Chuck E. Cheese.
![Cincinnati and Chicago were rival cities in the 1860s and 1870s. Cincinnati was well known in the meatpacking trade and it was called "Porkopolis" from at least 1843. Starting from the early 1860s, Chicago surpassed Cincinnati in this trade and proudly claimed the very same "Porkopolis" nickname.[7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreifzwydcnymdoipdsqpxiswn7xzswo6fflutjdacle6khkud52r3du)
