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October 3

What is the name for the phenomenon of children experiencing the founding of major web companies?

I thought I founded most of the top websites when I was five, but Sergey Brin or Larry Page appeared to me and said children sometimes think they founded websites that are actually much more difficult to code (they experience coding parts of the sites). Is there a name for this phenomenon, such as a scientific or theological one? --Michael WhiteT·C 05:47, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Speaking in tongues would seem most appropriate. Your post is entirely deficient in anything resembling an answerable question. Or even an indication of what the question might be about. AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:53, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Delusion? Dream? —Antonissimo (talk) 17:31, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Google was founded in 1998, years after you were five. You could have figured that out without appearances.  ​‑‑Lambiam 08:55, 4 October 2026 (UTC)
Seems to me that False memory, and perhaps False memory syndrome, could be relevant. —scs (talk) 12:17, 4 October 2026 (UTC)
I had a computer and was able to design and code the first versions of the websites. I sent various emails about them, such as asking Harvard University to administer them. There were different pseudonyms for all of them.--Michael WhiteT·C 21:38, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
No you didn't. As you are well aware, Wikipedia is not a platform for absurd self-promotional nonsense. Not here, not in your ridiculous autobiographical draft, not anywhere. If you want to make yourself look stupid, find somewhere else to do it. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:27, 8 October 2026 (UTC)


By a sheer coincidence... WP:RD/M#What is the name for this phenomenon? --CiaPan (talk) 10:55, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Emperor Norton has returned! All hail Emperor White! Glory, glory, hallelujah! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Viriditas (talk • contribs) 21:52, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

22- and 14 nm process nodes

Regarding process nodes in semiconductor device fabrication, we currently categorize (read: redirect) 16nm process to 14, and 20nm process to 22.

There maybe exceptions: SemiWiki wrote two articles about TSMC's transition from planar transistors to FinFET. They wrote:

Which means that technically some 16"nm" are 22"nm"s. This is messed up. Yet I can't cover these subtleties without actively violating WP:V and WP:OR. So instead, I present them here to see if anyone has any thoughts. 海盐沙冰 / aka irisChronomia / Talk / Uploads 10:54, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

In this area, "##nm" is more a model number than a measurement. I completely agree that "nm" is a unit of measure, but it isn't used as such here. So, 16nm has nothing to do with a measurement. 22nm has nothing to do with a measurement. It is just marketing people throwing out numbers. One says "If we call it 20nm, more people will buy it." Another says "No, let's go with 18nm." Another says "Our competitor is using 18nm, so we'll go 16nm!" Then, after the fact, there is an attempt by the consumers to categorize them by the new advances in each generation. But, because the label and technology aren't truly tied to one another, you can't make a perfect one-to-one relationship between them. ~2026-46630-01 (talk) 12:08, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

References

  1. ↑ Not the finest in reliability, but in a field so full of NDAs and trade secrets like semi-engineering, reliability is frequently inversely proportional to a source's level of detail.
  2. ↑ Missed the mark by half a decade: we didn't see proper EUV even in the 5 "nm"-era"