First published in 1981, the 9th Edition in 2001 was the last book with the glossary title. The book evolved into Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (CDE), and floppy disk and CD-ROM versions became ...
Computer jargon can be opaque even to those that know the words well. Since although you might learn what all the terms mean, that doesn't mean you know where the word came from, or what it meant ...
Business Insider tapped three software engineers to share the slang words and phrases incoming newbies need to know before ...
Starting out in the early 1990s, it wound up with more than 175,000 article abstracts and descriptions of products, vendors and computer terms. "The Computer Glossary," the predecessor of this ...
BBC Bitesize explores the origins of spam and other computer terms. It’s almost 100 years old and sold around the world, but perhaps that isn’t Spam’s biggest claim to fame The name has been ...