why are they called analogs?
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I'm pretty sure it is just a vaping thing. I never heard of cigs being called analogs till I started vaping. Vaping is the new smoking so we call cigs analogs.
Though not digital e-cigarettes are electronic and seem sophisticated where as analog tends to be a term associated with antiquated things. Though truth be told analog things usually work much better than digital versions of the same thing. Analog film photographs are infinitely zoom able because the film isn't broken into spots of information.
In short analog referring to cigarettes simply is to imply they are antiquated or out of style.
In short analog referring to cigarettes simply is to imply they are antiquated or out of style.
This is pretty funny! From the Urban Dictionary!
The common traditional cigarette, a crude, old-fashioned nicotine delivery device, consisting of processed tobacco wrapped in a paper tube, from which smoke is inhaled after being lit.
So named to differentiate it from the more modern and less harmful electronic cigarette.
Dude, you're still smoking analog cigarettes? Get with the tech and vape, man!
The common traditional cigarette, a crude, old-fashioned nicotine delivery device, consisting of processed tobacco wrapped in a paper tube, from which smoke is inhaled after being lit.
So named to differentiate it from the more modern and less harmful electronic cigarette.
Dude, you're still smoking analog cigarettes? Get with the tech and vape, man!
e-cigs = digital, new, cutting edge
Tobacco Cigarette = analog, old fashioned, toxic too.
I think there's an explanation in "The Wonderful World Of Vaping"
The ECF Library
Tobacco Cigarette = analog, old fashioned, toxic too.
I think there's an explanation in "The Wonderful World Of Vaping"
The ECF Library
lol aright just had to know but dont think ill ever call em that sounds weird and reminds me of showtek "analog players in a digital world". prefer the term stoge. and e-stogey for my pv.
It's like analog vs digital TV, watches, etc
Analog is the old kind that works with simple natural principles and digital use electronics to do the same thing
Oddly, the word analogue means looks & works alike so an ecig is an analogue of a cigarette. Haha. And to make it even more confusing, analog is also an alternate spelling of analogue.
Analog is the old kind that works with simple natural principles and digital use electronics to do the same thing
Oddly, the word analogue means looks & works alike so an ecig is an analogue of a cigarette. Haha. And to make it even more confusing, analog is also an alternate spelling of analogue.
I, too, won't call them "analogs," but because I'm picky about terminology. Calling them "analog" technically doesn't distinguish them from our vaporizers, because our vaporizers are also analog. Besides, there's already a perfectly good word for "analogs": cigarettes.
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+3 (I just can't and won't use the term, but people can do whatever they want - I just figure most people don't realize that our PV's are, primarily, all analog electronic devices.)
I'm a n00b when it comes to vaping, I'm also a tech guy, when I first read the term analogue in reference to a cigarette on this forum I damn near peed my pants I laughed so hard. I love that term.
I'll stick with "nails" for cigarettes. As to PVs. Well, I suppose I'll need a decent one before I can get picky on what to call them. lol.
Now I'm gonna tell on myself a bit.
Analog actually defines a term of progression or evolvement. This being that "analogue" and "analog" have been around since long before "digital". Viewed in light of physics, an analog of anything is either a sample of something, or a replacement / stand-in for something. USUALLY. Transmission of voice via radio waves creates an analog of the real thing. Recording a voice to vinyl, or more modern media, creates an analog of the same. Take it to it's modern usage and it's taken on new meaning to the world at large and is now in fact a progression of it's self, an analog. OK, bored you to death, sorry. Just interesting to look back on what a thing started out being and through generations, what it has become.
Take the "archaic" cassette tape. This was an amazing marvel as I recall. Let alone, CDs and digital files stored in varied and broad standing ways. If you'd have told me that analog would become the opposite of "digital", I'd have first asked you what digital was, then I'd have laughed at you in your futuristic fantasies. Imagine what I'd have said to the idea of a pocket computer!
I recall building my first computer from plans that came out of the back of a popular science magazine. It had 4 d-switches, 5 lights (akin to LEDs) and NO monitor. You entered a series of on/off commands via the switches and the computer would compute (calculate) your inputs. It was up to you to read the lights and take your computed (calculated) output. A short time later, Texas Instruments fascinated me to an extent I thought we'd all be amazed for life. They sold this little brick looking thing with a block type red LED readable display. It took a 9v battery, you entered your mathematical formula via actual number buttons and could read the data output as actual numbers. Yup, the calculator. I still have mine, all $100.00 of it. lol
Long story short, the english language lends it's self to change as even it's most basic rules of formulation have more exceptions than the average person can name. To me, the e-cigarette is an analog of the real cigarette, but definitions have moved far past where I sit, so actually................. everybody's right. Doesn't mean us old fogies have to keep on changing though. L O L
Wonder how bad I've told on myself now. ;-)
Frank
Now I'm gonna tell on myself a bit.
Analog actually defines a term of progression or evolvement. This being that "analogue" and "analog" have been around since long before "digital". Viewed in light of physics, an analog of anything is either a sample of something, or a replacement / stand-in for something. USUALLY. Transmission of voice via radio waves creates an analog of the real thing. Recording a voice to vinyl, or more modern media, creates an analog of the same. Take it to it's modern usage and it's taken on new meaning to the world at large and is now in fact a progression of it's self, an analog. OK, bored you to death, sorry. Just interesting to look back on what a thing started out being and through generations, what it has become.
Take the "archaic" cassette tape. This was an amazing marvel as I recall. Let alone, CDs and digital files stored in varied and broad standing ways. If you'd have told me that analog would become the opposite of "digital", I'd have first asked you what digital was, then I'd have laughed at you in your futuristic fantasies. Imagine what I'd have said to the idea of a pocket computer!
I recall building my first computer from plans that came out of the back of a popular science magazine. It had 4 d-switches, 5 lights (akin to LEDs) and NO monitor. You entered a series of on/off commands via the switches and the computer would compute (calculate) your inputs. It was up to you to read the lights and take your computed (calculated) output. A short time later, Texas Instruments fascinated me to an extent I thought we'd all be amazed for life. They sold this little brick looking thing with a block type red LED readable display. It took a 9v battery, you entered your mathematical formula via actual number buttons and could read the data output as actual numbers. Yup, the calculator. I still have mine, all $100.00 of it. lol
Long story short, the english language lends it's self to change as even it's most basic rules of formulation have more exceptions than the average person can name. To me, the e-cigarette is an analog of the real cigarette, but definitions have moved far past where I sit, so actually................. everybody's right. Doesn't mean us old fogies have to keep on changing though. L O L
Wonder how bad I've told on myself now. ;-)
Frank
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Freaky_1: I enjoyed Post #15 a lot, thanks. I'm curious if your first computer was an Altair.
Yes, English is a living language. But, we if we haphazardly disregard the accepted meanings of words at too high a rate, I think we've created a real problem in communicating. Oh, that's right, that's been going on for centuries too, LOL.
I called cigarettes analogs when I first joined this forum ... saw everyone else doing it so, when in Rome, you know.
Didn't take me long to decide it was silly. Cigarettes are cigarettes.
So, in reply to the OP ... not everybody (even here on ECF) calls cigarettes analogs.
Yes, English is a living language. But, we if we haphazardly disregard the accepted meanings of words at too high a rate, I think we've created a real problem in communicating. Oh, that's right, that's been going on for centuries too, LOL.
I called cigarettes analogs when I first joined this forum ... saw everyone else doing it so, when in Rome, you know.
Didn't take me long to decide it was silly. Cigarettes are cigarettes.
So, in reply to the OP ... not everybody (even here on ECF) calls cigarettes analogs.
Altair did come along from the same linage. Back in the day you could nab the plans, hit the stores for parts and build one... though MUCH less powerful than the altair.
My first "modern" computer was the TRS80... Let's not forget the TI-1000 though (still think Texas Instruments had what should have become the modern compiling platform).
My first "modern" computer was the TRS80... Let's not forget the TI-1000 though (still think Texas Instruments had what should have become the modern compiling platform).
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