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Where tech terms like 'bug,' 'robot,' and 'cloud' originally came from

Matt WeinbergerJul 9, 2015, 23:55 IST

Hey, did you see that there's a new patch for that game out? Yeah, it introduces a new bug, so make sure you saved your game to the cloud before you grab it.

Thanks to the smartphones, tablets, and laptops we're increasingly carrying around all day, computer jargon is entering our daily speech at an alarming rate. But these words started somewhere else.

From bugs to cloud to to mice to spam, here's where we get 11 common computer terms.