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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities
I'll start:
- Firewall
- Virtual Memory
- Single source of truth
- Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)
Your turn
Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names
ethernet sounds like some mystical realm
Avatar and icon were similarly stolen from mysticism.
Makes me think of a net you use to capture things that are on the ethereal plane.
You use it to catch the ether bunny
Wait, did ethernet come from aether
Yeah, it's named after the luminiferous aether, the invisible medium light waves were theorised to move in. Turns out photons just do that instead.
Same idea as "the cloud." You'd draw a diagram and the arrows would eventually go to a squiggly representation of someone else's problem.
Yes.