The rebooting of computers does have an etymological connection to the boots you wear. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System (in Communications of the ACM), Jul. Jack Wayne Frickey, Neon-20 (Alpha, Alpha (0,1,2)) Neon-20 Experiment at 16.8 MEV with Automated Data-Analysis (Diss.), 1972Ī “crash” is an unscheduled system reboot or halt. The operator can reboot the EMR operating system and execute FORTRAN programs if he desires. We see written evidence of reboot used as a verb beginning in the early 1970s, and within a few years, it was also being used as a noun. It still remains to be seen, however, whether the non-computational meanings will replace the one dealing with the muttered curses that accompany restarting your computer.
ORIGIN BOOTS MOVIE
The original meaning of reboot, and the one that is still the most currently used is “to shut down and restart (a computer or program).” In recent years a new sense (“to start (something) anew”) has been blossoming, particularly when used in reference to an existing television series or movie franchise. Reboot appears to be one of those words in a hurry. In some instances, however, the process is accelerated, and a word will change meaning over a few decades, rather than centuries. This semantic drift will often take a considerable time to occur, with words gradually shifting over of the course of hundreds of years. Remember when rebooting your computer, kick with boots, not high heels.
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