People aren't just wrong on the internet. People were wrong before the internet existed. It's even possible to be smart enough to design a CPU and still be wrong.
The register points at instructions. It does not count programs.
The register is correctly named in some hardware manuals, including those for PowerPC and x86.
Program Counter = Counter used for programs. Counts bytes for position of next instruction.
Within an early context and machine code vs hw level, not totally unreasonable as a legacy term. "Counter" was often used as name, even when starting at 0.
Wrong before internet or just pioneers? And what wrongs do we now do, or not?
