Where tech terms like ‘bug,’ ‘robot,’ and ‘cloud’ originally came from
July 10, 2015
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Matt Weinberger.
Hey, did you see that there’s a new patch for that game out? Yeah, it introduces a new bug, so make sure you saved your game to the cloud before you grab it. Thanks to the smartphones, tablets, and laptops we’re increasingly carrying around all day, computer jargon is entering our daily speech at an alarming rate. But these words started somewhere else.
From bugs to cloud to to mice to spam, here’s where we get 11 common computer terms. The term "bug," meaning a flaw in a piece of software, gained popularity after a moth flew into the insides of the Harvard Mark II supercomputer in 1946. "Booting," meaning to start a device up (think "rebooting") comes from "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps."…
Before a computer does anything else, it loads a simple program called the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). Early Early computer scientists saw this as the computer pulling itself up by its own bootstraps…
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