terminology

I've been thinking about alternate terminology again, this time specifically terminology related to computing and computers (including pre-electronic computing devices that qualify as early computers). Though this thread is focused mainly on 20th century style computer technology, I've decided...

What if the US Presidents had developed royal nicknames? So that the nomenclature isn't too similar to monarchies, instead of being referred to by their first name and the nickname, the presidents are referred to by their last name and the nickname (e.g. "Washington The Great") or by their...

I figured it would help if we had a master thread for all alternate terminology/vocabulary discussions. Most of the threads started for asking this kind of advice die pretty soon, only lasting for a couple of posts or a couple of pages at most. So, to prevent cluttering the forums with these...