Important tech terms and their coiners
Hi, here we are presenting you some important tech term with the names of people who coined them. Hope this helps you prepare for tech and biz quizzes like TCS IT Wiz.
Usually direct questions are asked like: "Who coined X?" An easy scoring area in tech quizzes or rather say giveaway questions of a tech quiz.
| Term | Coined By |
| Artificial Reality | Myron Krueger |
| Avatar | Richard Garriott |
| Bit | John Tuckey |
| Bluetooth | Jim Kardman |
| Byte | Werner Buchholz |
| Cookie | Lou Montoulli |
| Cyberspace | William Gibson |
| Deathmatch | John Romero |
| Deepweb | Mike Bergeman |
| Freeware | Andrew Flugelman |
| Hypertext | Ted Nelson |
| Information Superhighway | Al Gore |
| Java | James Gosling |
| JSON | Douglas Crockford |
| Linux | Ari Lemmke |
| MacQuarium | Andy Ihnatko |
| Meme | Richard Dawkins |
| Netiquttue | Chuq Von Rospatch |
| PDA | John Sculley |
| Shareware | Jay Lucas |
| Silicon Valley | Don Hoeffler |
| Spam | Kenneth Daigneau |
| Surfing the Web | Jean Armour Polly |
| Twttr | Noah Glass |
| Virtual Reality | Jaron Lanier |
| Virus | Led Adleman |
| Web 2.0 | Darcy DiNucci |
| Worm | John Brunner |
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