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Of Nerds And Words / The etymology of technology terms we know and love is a really fun […]

Of Nerds And Words / The etymology of technology terms we know and love is a really fun article tracing the roots of our new vocabulary. (via fury)

While it took an 18th-century satirist to name the world’s best-known Internet directory, another site, Google, the darling among Internet search engines, owes its name to a 9-year-old boy.

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    Madonnalisa

    Just came across Bruce Allen and Elizabeth Buie’s article in Interactions(Mar/Apr2002) on What’s in a word? Some definitions but also some interesting perspectives of the history of some words used behind usability and interaction design.

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