Talk:Interface

message: I think there needs to be a more general article on interfaces. It doesn't just refer to software programming or electrical connectors, it is used a lot more widely in IT / electronics, so it's hard to disambiguate links to this page.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Timb0h (talk • contribs) 22:16, 8 May 2006
: I can't see any article here about hardware interfaces (in general). Moreover, the article about computer science abstraction isn't wide enough.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.239.180.230 (talk) 16:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interfaces in general 

message: This was tagged in July 2009 because content of the page needs cleaning up. It also has incoming links. Lots of changes have been mafe - what else do people think needs to be done? Boleyn2 (talk) 08:29, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure it's a good idea to list all those examples of interfaces under the "Interface (computer science)" part. The "first-level" ones like User interface and Application programming interface, yes, but I find that the rest should rather be in categories than on this page. Puceron (talk) 07:19, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I recently added those entries and I agree that the lists should be drastically pruned. Perhaps list only 3--4 important examples of each class, then say "and many more"?In any case, some of the lists (such as the electrical interfaces) seem useful and should be preserved somewhere, perhaps as a "see also" list in some parent article, or as a "List of" article. All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 19:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-up

message: The page is clearly a disambiguation page. For consistency with other disambiguation pages, why don't we move this content to the "Interface (disambiguation)" page and redirect this page to there? As a user when I see a disambiguation page I expect to see the "(disambiguation)" following the article name. I think it helps the non-editorial user community. § Music Sorter § (talk) 18:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's fine as it is. We only need to have the disambiguation page at Interface (disambiguation) if there was a prime use of 'Interface' which would justify an article. See here. Bridgeplayer (talk) 22:36, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the redirect from "Interface (disambiguation)"? 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Interfaces in computing (disambiguation). Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:07, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Interfaces in computing (disambiguation)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Interface is a a very basic and powerful concept. This comes from reading the definitions in Oxford, Cambridge, Merriam Webster and Vocabulary.com online dictionaries among others as well as from etymonline.com for the etymology of the word and concept.
=== Etymology and actual definition ===
1874, first use had the meaning of "a plane surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies," from inter- + face (n.).
1962, modern use is perhaps due to McLuhan who used it in the sense "place of interaction between two systems".
1964, the computer sense came out as "apparatus to connect two devices".
1967, used as a related verb: to interface, Interfaced; interfacing.  https://www.etymonline.com/word/interface 
The most diffused and first meaning of the word "interface" is sometimes shown as the one coined in the computer world in 1964  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/interface_1 ,  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/interface , or the original use from 1874  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interface ,  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/interface  but these are obviously just a narrow interpretation of the powerful concept related to the information exchange world, to the communication and interaction, that is considered as the second meaning of the word by all these sources:
"a situation, way, or place where two things come together and affect each other" for example  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/interface 
This concept is known and recalled with the word "interface" in telecommunications, computer science, electronics, technology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, social sciences, anthropology, religion, psychology, psychiatry and we can continue with all the human knowledge domains list. Of course, such a basic concept can be also found as a Journal name or abused for some other tangential meanings but there is no ambiguity there, I would rather call it specificity.
Torvug (talk) 22:37, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interface is a a very basic and powerful concept and it doesn't need disambiguation but an article 

message: 1874, first use had the meaning of "a plane surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies," from inter- + face (n.).
1962, modern use is perhaps due to McLuhan who used it in the sense "place of interaction between two systems".
1964, the computer sense came out as "apparatus to connect two devices".
1967, used as a related verb: to interface, Interfaced; interfacing.  https://www.etymonline.com/word/interface 
The most diffused and first meaning of the word "interface" is sometimes shown as the one coined in the computer world in 1964  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/interface_1 ,  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/interface , or the original use from 1874  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interface ,  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/interface  but these are obviously just a narrow interpretation of the powerful concept related to the information exchange world, to the communication and interaction, that is considered as the second meaning of the word by all these sources:
"a situation, way, or place where two things come together and affect each other" for example  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/interface 
This concept is known and recalled with the word "interface" in telecommunications, computer science, electronics, technology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, social sciences, anthropology, religion, psychology, psychiatry and we can continue with all the human knowledge domains list. Of course, such a basic concept can be also found as a Journal name or abused for some other tangential meanings but there is no ambiguity there, I would rather call it specificity.
Torvug (talk) 22:37, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology and actual definition