Re:Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s co...
by kakarot on Friday July 14, 2017 @11:15PM
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The phrase killer app first appears in print circa 1986 according to Google Ngram Viewer [0].
While a search for just app with Ngram Viewer would contain too much noise, we can reasonably assume that app must have been prevalent in technical jargon before that time, else marketing campaigns would not have used it.
Archive.org isn't reliable for this kind of query.
While a search for just app with Ngram Viewer would contain too much noise, we can reasonably assume that app must have been prevalent in technical jargon before that time, else marketing campaigns would not have used it.
Archive.org isn't reliable for this kind of query.
[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=killer+app&yea...