Off topic: I got confused by the phrase kindle fire, until I remembered that it can also mean start a fire. Now the name of the tablet seems less arbitrary...

On that note, I also realized the connotation of "Tinder": combustible material which ignites upon coming into contact with sparks. Sparks fly when people meet - that sort of thing. Very clever indeed.

Also in Tinder gives you "matches" and the logo is a flame.

Can't start a fire without a spark

I thought it had to do with matches

I was ROLFing reading this

Starting a fire is the default meaning of the word.

Kindling as a noun is the twigs, leaves, moss or whatever used to start the fire.

Which is somewhat hilarious when you realize Amazon is telling you to burn books.

Doesn't sound bad when you take it figuratively. The fires that some texts kindled centuries ago are still burning.

Possibly refers to this manual: http://www.panix.com/~rst/turing.pdf

Speaking of Ferranti and programming mothers : my mother talked about how she had been a programmer of a Ferranti Pegasus before I was born. She worked for an insurance company but talked about having to travel across town to an engineering company to use their machine because theirs hadn't been delivered yet. Based on her recollections they were coding in assembler. She moved on to pursue a career in economics and never coded again.

I found an article about the computer being delivered to the engineering company in 1960. The Pegasus was a mid-50's design (afaik unrelated to the Mk1) so I'm not sure if it was new or recycled from one of the initial customers.

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/memory-la...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Pegasus

From Turing to Mary Lee Berners-Lee to Tim Berners-Lee -- it only took three generations from establishing the theory all computers stand upon and get to the World Wide Web. Fascinating.

The World Wide Web didn't depend on Turing's theories. Computing machinery went back to Babbage/Ada