People Are Realising Where Dashboards Come From, And I Had No Idea

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how the terms “uppercase” and “lowercase” actually come from the printing press.

And now it seems the deceptively modern-sounding “dashboard” has a far older original meaning too. 

In a 2021 X (formerly Twitter) post that recently resurfaced on my feed, company founder and X user Arnaud Porterie shared via Wikipedia that the word dashboard “applied to a barrier of wood or leather fixed at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect...