$ whatis "bug"
No, Grace Hopper didn’t coin it. The word meant a technical fault decades before the 1947 moth — Edison used it in 1878.
⇒“bug” (a fault) · 1870s → the taped-in moth (1947) is a gag on an old word
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$ whatis "Wi-Fi"
It doesn’t stand for “Wireless Fidelity.” A branding firm coined it to echo “Hi-Fi”; the tagline was bolted on afterward and later disavowed.
⇒“Wi-Fi” ← an invented brand name (echoes Hi-Fi) · NOT an acronym
$ whatis "the T in ChatGPT"
That “T” is Google’s. Transformer — the architecture underneath — came out of a 2017 Google paper, named because it sounded good.
⇒GPT = Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Google, 2017)