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OED Science Fiction Database Updated

Posted by simoniker on from the flash-wordgone dept.

solferino writes "The Oxford English dictionary commenced a project back in 2001 (Slashdot report) to solicit reader citations of the earliest uses of science fiction words. The most recent OED newsletter covers the progress of the project, which has its own site hosted on a FreeBSD box running a MySQL database engine. An interesting graph on the site shows date of word origin by decade. Surprisingly recent words featured on the site are /avatar/ (1990 - in the VR sense) and /morph/ (1993) - unless the Slashdot readership can report earlier uses?"

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  1. Re:Here's a mirror of the graph... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait



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  3. Re:how to get a story accepted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    eat shit and die pussy.
    FreeBSD & MySQL
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