The reason was that they thought the unit was so ‘minute’ (small) and so the word minute stuck and when they further divided a minute into 60 parts, the new parts were of ‘second’ order of minuteness and over time they called the seconds…
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Basic threading in JavaScript; JavaScript Worker Threads
I was searching the web yesterday for this and didn’t really find a simple way of doing this and suddenly, I remembered something.
It’s extremely simple, someone could build on it with all sorts of features but for now, here is an example:
http://images.code-head.com/code/javascript/js-threads.html
As you can see there are two counters, one is counting up and the other down simultaneously.
Here is the start_thread function:
function thread_start(callback) { setTimeout(callback, 1); return true; }
The trick is that setTimeout *does not* block the execution and starts another thread to run the callback function 
I hope this helps someone
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