The Invention of Windows: A Journey Whenever we hear the word windows, the first thing that pops in our mind is a computer screen and the window of the processing program. While the meaning of the term window has changed significantly in modern times, we are not here to talk about it. Rather, here we will be talking about the traditional meaning of windows.
The window makers and designers of EcoChoice Windows share that the word window has come from an Old Norse word Vindauga. The meaning of ‘Vin’ in the Norse language is both winds as well as the eye.
That means the window was devised to keep the cold wind outside of the home or let the people inside a house to look outside. Perhaps, like the modern people, the older people used windows to do a little bit of both at that time.