Third Room Letters

We’ll Begin with Defaults ⚙️

Computer-based software taught a generation of us the word default when we began encountering the default settings of new tools and more recently, Apps, but the word default actually comes from religion and law. In the early 13th century, a default was an “offence, crime or sin,” and defaulting in the sense of not paying a loan first shows up in the 1800s.  These days we use the word default to me…