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Counterargument: Actually, Oxford English Dictionary says: "OED's earliest evidence for [the term] database is from 1953, in Sociometry." (Source: https://www
by gregw2 2y ago
Counterargument:
Actually, Oxford English Dictionary says: "OED's earliest evidence for [the term] database is from 1953, in Sociometry."
(Source: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/database_n#:~:text=Where%20does%20the%20noun%20database,base%20n https://www.oed.com/dictionary/database_n#:~:text=Where%20do....)
(Perhaps this Sociometry? : https://www.jstor.org/stable/i329357 https://www.jstor.org/stable/i329357 ?)
- refset 2y agoI could also believe many groups arrived at the term independently, deriving naturally from conversation along the lines of: "These are the data on which decisions are based" See also Rich Hickey's definition of "basis". I bet he spent a good while digging into the etymology.