Timeline for What's the meaning of "bootstrap"?
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| Sep 20, 2011 at 20:44 | comment | added | Daniel | Good point. +1 if I had any votes left! | |
| Sep 20, 2011 at 20:42 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Dictionary.com has chosen a really atypical example there. No combinations of bootstrap[ping] him/her[self] produce any results in NGram. But there are plenty of results for for bootstrap[ping] it, which accords with my understanding that bootstrapping is normally something done to/by an inanimate object. Most results are from the 70s onwards, obviously, since the inanimate object is usually a microcomputer. | |
| Jul 21, 2011 at 17:50 | history | answered | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |