Football is a game that emerged in medieval England. They called it football because you played it on foot, not horseback. Medieval football is vaguely similar to the sports it shares a name with today: two teams fight to control a ball and bring it to the goal on their end of the field. In those days you could carry the ball with your hands, and the field was usually the main street in your town or village. There were tons of regional variations, and over time these variations took on their own characteristics.The town of Rugby had a set of rules people there liked, so those eventually standardized into what we call Rugby. When football came to the US it developed into Gridiron football, or American football. Back in England, the sport was standardized into more or less its modern form, and in the proccess it picked up a nickname: Soccer, from a slang convention applied to "Association football". As I understand it, this nickname wasn't very popular in England- it had a class character, and it was seen as posh, appropriative, and alienating to working class fans and players, who preferred its old name of football. Soccer is the word that caught on when the sport was introduced to the US, because we already had a sport called football. A popular urban legend is that English football fans stopped using the word soccer because it's the word American fans were using, but it's more about that class dimension I mentioned earlier.

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You have to go back to when these games were developing where horseback games were reasonable, Polo being the best known today.

I am not sure I'd those other games qualify as football games, just they meet the criteria that got the name.

>And football, all of them, are named for the fact you play it on your feet, not how you can touch the ball.

So games like basketball, tennis or volleyball are also "football". That's some weird reasoning.

How is it a useful distinction? What ball games aren't played on your feet?

Just as a very important aside. The "foot" in football from the original game, not the american one, was not about realted to 'feet' or kicking. The "foot" was that it was played on foot vs being played on a horse, like polo.

Football, was a ball game played on foot, not a game played with your feet. That makes sense now to think that there became a lot of different variations of games called "football" each with their own history.

In Ireland, one of our national sports is Gaelic Football. People often refer to it as "football" and use the word "soccer" for that sport. So it is not just in the USA. There are many sports referred to as "football" around the world. Soccer and rugby are big in Ireland, so we have several popular forms of football.

Australian football too is named the Australian Football League and oft referred to solely as "football"

American football is basically a variant of Rugby football years ago which was called rugger to mark the difference between it and association football again called soccer to identify the game. Americans switched from the naming to American football rather than American rugby or American rugby football to emphasise both the American nature of the sport and it being different from rugby, then the shortened version of American football became football.

And football, all of them, are named for the fact you play it on your feet, not how you can touch the ball. American Football has as much right to the name as Association Football, Rugby Football and a number of other sport. Wikipedia seems to have about 10 modern footballs listed.

The sport now known as American football or gridiron football changed drastically in the past century or two. When the game first gained popularity in North America, it started as rugby football and the ball was generally advanced by kicking it. Consequently, the term "football" had caught on during the sport's early days in North America.

It's also worth noting that were a bunch of different sports that had names which were variations of "_____ football" in the same manner as rugby football. One of those was association football, the full name for the sport known as soccer in the US and "regular" football elsewhere. Where did the term "soccer" come from? In the late 19th century, some slang was developed at Oxford University in England that informally used "_er" as a suffix at the end of words. For example, a five pound note would be called a "fiver" in this slang. These Englishmen applied this slang convention to the term association football, shortening it to assoccer. Over time, this got shortened from assoccer to just soccer. I'm not sure how, but this term made it from Europe to North America, where it ended up being adopted.

In every place, the dominant code is known simply as "football", and other codes are described more specifically.

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Because soccer is short for “Association Football” and was what it was commonly known as worldwide to differentiate it from the other footballs like Rugby football. As some point the UK started just referring to it as “football” and the yanks didn’t

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There are plenty of guides to using it for different things. I was able to get it setup with emulators when I was a teen, I'm sure you could find a comprehensive guide to step you through anything you'd like to do.

I would think you could start for scratch. My kids know this stuff. But I don't really know how to code except in very basic ways.

it's an extremely cheap and simple computer that is mainly used for teaching (because you can realistically afford to buy one for every student, and they're cheap to replace if they're lost or broken). They also have some applications in embedded systems demonstrators (you can strap a battery to the bottom and move it around easily).

Do I need programming background or something like that? Or can I start from scratch

It's a very simple computer that can be used for many things. You need some basic programming skills to be able to do things with it. My kids have one hooked up to a 3d printer.

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The frames are in the correct way but some glass panels are in the wrong way around. I'm not sure how much of a negative impact it'll have, or just that I lose the positive impact.

Everything needs chips, so when the world started opening up after they started recovering from COVID, demand skyrocketed. Chip factories were similarly shut down (or scaled back), so they had to spin up more production to meet demand, which is very hard to do and takes a long time. Add the conflict in Ukraine eating up tons of chips that are used in military hardware, and it’s not unreasonable that current production capacity cannot meet needs.

if they go this route then they are openly admitting that their platform is not a neutral playing field for free speech.

no social media platform wants to have that fame(at least ones that want ot last and not get boycotted).

as said above as long as these channels arent breaking youtube ToS, there is no reason to crack down on them.