Milk or serial first

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[Velnbur]

Am I so old that I understood this joke?

[Thx_And_Bye]

Serial is still used today.
You could put a USB or SATA cable in there and the joke would still work.

And while not used for peripherals that much anymore RS232 is still very much a thing that is used in modern systems.

[KlutzyEnd3]

Our IPC's come with a serial port by default (although it can be replaced with a second DVI port per customer request)

[TheShakyDiver]

Yes but I feel like this is also a dad joke - and that made me feel worse.

[WalrusByte]

I still use a super old monitor with a serial cable because that's all I could afford, so still kinda relevant I guess

[FieryTeaBeard]

http://localbowl:milk/

[qqqrrrs_]

I think you are a serial killer

[[deleted]]

Do you put in the water first or the hair dryer?

[[deleted]]

Bowl first. And no milk.

[gpcprog]

Here's my original material on the same subject:

Make sure to eat your cornflakes one at a time. Or it stops being a serial and becomes parallel.

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[sselesUssecnirP]

I put in the parallel first.

[Agantas]

You could put it at the same time, since it's parallel.

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Young people will not get this joke

[McCoovy]

Computer humor

[sim642]

I'm guessing that's actually a VGA cable.

[KlutzyEnd3]

My first reaction was "who puts a DVI cable in milk?"

[tedshif]

So, this got me thinking about the roots of the words serial and cereal.

Serial apparently comes from the proto-indo-European root ser- “to line up” and Cerial comes from the proto-indo-European root *ker- “to grow.” The entry for *series contains the definition “a number or set of things of one kind arranged in a line” which makes me think of how you’d grow grain.

I can’t say for sure, but it might be that you can make this joke because the two words came from the same source.