An earlier take on tech jargon was published in 1997 by Wired magazine in the form of a physical book entitled “jargon watch”. It was touted as “a pocket dicti

An earlier take on tech jargon was published in 1997 by Wired magazine in the form of a physical book entitled “jargon watch”. It was touted as “a pocket dictionary for the jitterati”. Published in San Francisco under the HardWired imprint, printed in Singapore. Collection of submitted terms to a Jargon Watch column to Wired magazine in the early 1990s. Examples include adminisphere, appeasement engineer, articulizer, balloon help (now mansplaining), bit flip (a personal favorite)…worth a gander. Honor your nerd heritage and revive some of the words the ancients used before the dot-com bubble.