Preloader
From “impression, mark” (as by a stamp or seal); from Old French preinte, “impression”; from noun use of fem. past participle of preindre, “to press, crush,” altered from prembre; from Latin premere, “to press, hold fast, cover, crowd, compress”: circa 1300.
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From “the linked computer networks of the U.S. Defence Department,” shortened from internetwork, which was used from 1972 in reference to (then-hypothetical) networks involving many separate computers:
from 1984.
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