"Hydrate" is much older than 2020. Here's a StackOverflow reference from 2011 [1], for instance. I first heard it used around that time, for loading objects fro

"Hydrate" is much older than 2020. Here's a StackOverflow reference from 2011 [1], for instance. I first heard it used around that time, for loading objects from databases (in a banking context). [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4929478 https://stackoverflow.com/a/4929478