{"id":819,"date":"2015-01-28T13:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=819"},"modified":"2023-12-14T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T08:01:53","slug":"nowyouknow-the-etymology-of-some-common-tech-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"#nowyouknow: The Etymology of Some Common Tech Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/techterms.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-816\" src=\"http:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/techterms-300x300.png\" alt=\"techterms\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/techterms-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/techterms-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/techterms.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What does a canned meat brand name have to do with unwanted email? Do hackers solve computer problems or create them? When did # stop meaning\u00a0<em>pound<\/em>\u00a0or<em>number<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">The popular tech blog Gizmodo has the answers to these questions and more in<a style=\"color: #06529e;\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-mysterious-origins-of-21-tech-terms-1678246145\">The Mysterious Origins of 21 Tech Terms<\/a>. Of course, like anything you find online that claims to be definitive, there is room for debate on the etymology of many of the terms included in this article. At least, that&#8217;s what quite a few commenters seem to think. This might be one of the few times to break a cardinal rule of the Internet that needs no explanation: never read the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a canned meat brand name have to do with unwanted email? Do hackers solve computer problems or create them? When did # stop meaning\u00a0pound\u00a0ornumber? The popular tech blog Gizmodo has the answers to these questions and more inThe Mysterious Origins of 21 Tech Terms. Of course, like anything you find online that claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[331,332],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technews","tag-331","tag-332"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technews.simmons.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}