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Popular Computer Term Etymologies
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Apache: Named after a series of patches to code written for NCSA's HTTP daemon. A patchy server.
Abend: Short for abnormal end.
Ada: named after Ada Lovelace, named after the first programmer.
Awk: initials of Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
B: Contraction of BCPL
Biff: named after a dog known by the developers at Berkeley.
Bit: A portmanteau of binary digit.
Bon: after Bonnie
Booting: from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.
Bug: Grace Hopper traced an error in the Harvard Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay and called it the term we use today to describe an error on the computer.
Byte: coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during a design for IBM Stretch computer.
Cee: He originally called it New B.
Cplus: He called it this to increment the value of C.
Computer: From human computers used to carry out calculations mentally and possibly with mechanical aids.
Cookie: originated from fortune cookie, a cookie with an embedded message.
Ethernet: From luminiferous ether.
Gentoo: Named after a variety of penguin.
Gnu: A species of African antelope. Named it after the GNU Song and an abbreviation of GNU's Not Unix.
Google: Named after googol a number represented followed by 100 zeros to tell how about the search results would be.
Hotmail: named after HTML and was good because it ends in mail.
Java: a slang for coffee which was named after it.
JavaScript: changed from LiveScript to used for Java technology.
Linux: named after Linus Torvalds.
Macintosh: named after the apple.
Oracle: The code name was this, but gave the name as a system that would give answers to all questions.
Pacman: The term comes from paku paku which is a Japanese onomatopoeia used for noisy eating. Man to describe the character.
Pentium: comes from penta which means five and conveys a meaning of strength like titanium.
Shareware: A distributed software user supported software and freeware.
Spam: Is derived from the Monty Python SPAM Sketch, set in a café where everything on the menu that includes and the Vikings join with a song called this.
Trojan horse: derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse. It appears to be innocuous, but in fact is a vehicle for bypassing security.
Ubuntu Linux: derived from Ubuntu, a South African ideology.
Unix: When Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics Multiplexed Information and Computing System project originally called Unics or Uniplexed Operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. The alternative spelling was Eunuchs reduced to Multics and then shortened to the word of today.
Virus: coined from Fred Cohen's paper Computer Viruses Theory and Experiments and in a science fiction novel called When Harlie was One, includes a description of a fictional computer program called Virus.
Wiki: means quick from wikiwiki from Hawaii.
Yahoo: Stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle or Object Organizer. Was invented by Jonathan Swift in a book called Gulliver's Travels.
Zip: meant speed and imply their product would be faster than ARC and other compression formats of the time.
Popular Computer Term Etymologies
Across:3. | originated from fortune cookie, a cookie with an embedded message. | 4. | He called it this to increment the value of C. | 11. | The code name was this, but gave the name as a system that would give answers to all questions. | 13. | He originally called it New B. | 14. | comes from penta which means five and conveys a meaning of strength like titanium. | 15. | derived from Ubuntu, a South African ideology. | 16. | Short for abnormal end. | 18. | after Bonnie |
| 19. | Named after a variety of penguin. | 22. | from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. | 23. | named after Ada Lovelace, named after the first programmer. | 25. | Is derived from the Monty Python SPAM Sketch, set in a café where everything on the menu that includes and the Vikings join with a song called this. | 26. | When Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics Multiplexed Information and Computing System project originally called Unics or Uniplexed Operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. The alternative spelling was Eunuchs reduced to Multics and then shortened to the word of today. | 27. | From luminiferous ether. | 28. | coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during a design for IBM Stretch computer. |
| | Down:1. | named after HTML and was good because it ends in mail. | 2. | A portmanteau of binary digit. | 5. | A distributed software user supported software and freeware. | 6. | named after the apple. | 7. | Named after googol a number represented followed by 100 zeros to tell how about the search results would be. | 8. | From human computers used to carry out calculations mentally and possibly with mechanical aids. | 9. | means quick from wikiwiki from Hawaii. |
| 10. | The term comes from paku paku which is a Japanese onomatopoeia used for noisy eating. Man to describe the character. | 12. | named after Linus Torvalds. | 17. | Contraction of BCPL | 18. | Grace Hopper traced an error in the Harvard Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay and called it the term we use today to describe an error on the computer. | 20. | derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse. It appears to be innocuous, but in fact is a vehicle for bypassing security. | 21. | A species of African antelope. Named it after the GNU Song and an abbreviation of GNU's Not Unix. | 24. | Named after a series of patches to code written for NCSA's HTTP daemon. A patchy server. |
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Popular Computer Term Etymologies
Across:3. | originated from fortune cookie, a cookie with an embedded message. | 4. | He called it this to increment the value of C. | 11. | The code name was this, but gave the name as a system that would give answers to all questions. | 13. | He originally called it New B. | 14. | comes from penta which means five and conveys a meaning of strength like titanium. | 15. | derived from Ubuntu, a South African ideology. | 16. | Short for abnormal end. | 18. | after Bonnie |
| 19. | Named after a variety of penguin. | 22. | from the phrase to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps. | 23. | named after Ada Lovelace, named after the first programmer. | 25. | Is derived from the Monty Python SPAM Sketch, set in a café where everything on the menu that includes and the Vikings join with a song called this. | 26. | When Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics Multiplexed Information and Computing System project originally called Unics or Uniplexed Operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. The alternative spelling was Eunuchs reduced to Multics and then shortened to the word of today. | 27. | From luminiferous ether. | 28. | coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during a design for IBM Stretch computer. |
| | Down:1. | named after HTML and was good because it ends in mail. | 2. | A portmanteau of binary digit. | 5. | A distributed software user supported software and freeware. | 6. | named after the apple. | 7. | Named after googol a number represented followed by 100 zeros to tell how about the search results would be. | 8. | From human computers used to carry out calculations mentally and possibly with mechanical aids. | 9. | means quick from wikiwiki from Hawaii. |
| 10. | The term comes from paku paku which is a Japanese onomatopoeia used for noisy eating. Man to describe the character. | 12. | named after Linus Torvalds. | 17. | Contraction of BCPL | 18. | Grace Hopper traced an error in the Harvard Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay and called it the term we use today to describe an error on the computer. | 20. | derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse. It appears to be innocuous, but in fact is a vehicle for bypassing security. | 21. | A species of African antelope. Named it after the GNU Song and an abbreviation of GNU's Not Unix. | 24. | Named after a series of patches to code written for NCSA's HTTP daemon. A patchy server. |
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