I’m a completely uninterested bystander, who has no issue using “monster”. But the Wikipedia mention links to a Cloudflare blog post from 2019, which is around

I’m a completely uninterested bystander, who has no issue using “monster”. But the Wikipedia mention links to a Cloudflare blog post from 2019, which is around the time Big Tech started renaming CS terminology. You can’t use that as proof of long-standing usage.