Talk:List of computer term etymologies
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I'm too new to the Wikipedia to want to change actual entries, but I'd like to point out two possible inaccuracies:
first, in the discussion of "Jakarta Project", I doubt that it's an accident or a "shocking coincidence" that Sun named a conference room after a city on Java. That's kind of nitpicky, though.
Agreed, that's just plain silly - the conference room was most likely named because Sun created Java. Not rocket science. I'm taking out the sentence.
Second, when Yahoo was first launched (on servers at Stanford before Yahoo.com), the acronym was explicitly expanded to "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle"; you can see by the number of Google searches that turn this up that it's an old thing, not a recent "back-formation".
- Hello 68.79.151.2, welcome to Wikipedia. Create a user ID so you can have a talk page of your own.
- Regarding the shocking coincidence, maybe we need to find out why the room was named Jakarta. If it was deliberate on Sun's part, then it's not a coincidence.
- Regarding the yahoo back-formation, you are right. The word 'today' in the line is misleading. Jay 08:02, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Anyone know who or what started using wildcard characters in computers ? Jay 07:24, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Anyone know the origin of the name for the README file found in software installations ? Jay 11:41, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- It's almost certainly a play on the "Eat Me" and "Drink Me" labels from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but hard to say when and how README first came into use for software documentation. Kaleja 21:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] PCMCIA
It says PCMCIA - "a wireless network card" and that is incorrect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.216.90.75 (talk • contribs) 08:43, 15 March 2005.
[edit] Little v Big Endian
The article on Gulliver's Travels states that the computer term is derived from Swift, could someone verify and add this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.121.237.80 (talk • contribs) 02:56, 2 March 2006.
- go for it! Anyone can edit Wikipedia. - Ryanfantastic 06:56, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Company Names
Yahoo, Google etc... are not computer terms. :-S
KeKe 03:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
