From the Hacker's Dictionary: "This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertisin

From the Hacker's Dictionary: "This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s and probably much earlier. The word `automagic' occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s." So you have been infected, but I think it's akin to the beneficial bacteria in your colon.