History Of Computing Words

Usually whenever i get email and it is whanging on about Computers i send it winging its way straight into the Junk Folder but i had a great one from The Museum of Computing regarding the history of everyday computer terms.
Interestingly, some words from our online vocabularies have been with us a lot longer than their modern meanings apparently.
People were talking about Streaming in 1368 but they meant a beam of unbroken light and not  the playback of an online video or listening to 80s songs on Spotify.
If you asked about Hardware in 1450 you would be shown tools, utensils, nails and even arrowheads because it was what they called metal items back then because there wasn't much call for Hard drives or Motherboards back then.
A Firewall today may keep your computer safe from viruses but in 1578 it was literally a barrier-like wall of flames although it later became a thick partition wall inside a building before the computer nerds made it mean keeping your computer safe.
Surf has been used since the 1600's to mean the foamy crash of the sea on the shore before dudes with surf boards stuck an -ing on the end and then dudes with an internet connection in the 90's took it to mean surfing the net.
The first broadband was the name of a technique for drying corn way back in the early 1600s and Upload and Download is from 1870 and was what farmers did to their carts, meaning putting on and taking off large bales of hay.
Bandwidth was a word uttered by Meteorologists in 1885 to mean measuring how large a band of rain was to help their forecasting and it was Offline and Online was a phrase you would hear from railway workers in 1918 and meant something that was transported by rail, or not.
We have the 2nd World War to thanks for Spam, as fresh meat was in short supply in 1937 so the army servicemen were sent tinned 'spiced ham' which was less perishable and we’ve been dealing with unwanted spam in our inboxes ever since.
When Richard Dawkins wanted a word to mean a unit of cultural transmission in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, he came up with Mimeme which was edited down to Meme as it rhymed better with Gene.

Thank you The Museum of Computing although i can't promise i wont still junk the next one you send me.