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 ...

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 ...

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 ...