Coining digital vocabulary
- "Software" began as an unserious programmers' antonym of "hardware."
- "Bluetooth" was a funny name for a wireless system. Bluetooth was a nickname of a tenth-century Scandinavian king with a tooth so decayed it looked blue.
- "Blog" is a contraction of "web log."
- Many other words that started as cyber slang are included in the Oxford English Dictionary - for example, "crowdsourcing."
- Jeff Howe introduced "wired" as a name for online consultation among larger groups.
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