OED Science Fiction Database Updated

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?"

Comments

MySql vs Slashdot

[manganese4]

Wonder how Mysql will handle the slashdot load? With luck we can get a performance statement from the site owners

Re:War stimulates the imagination?

[grub]

Hopefully our descendents won't look back and say "Bizarre peaks around the 1940's and early 2000's..."

Being Referenced - Massively OT

[Embedded Geek]

Wow. It was one thing when I had the origianl article posted, but it's another when someone else references my original article. I know I have no reason to be proud (hey, the article is about OED, not the guy who posted the it), but somehow I really do.

I guess I am an even smaller, sad little man than I thought...