Who created the word "dongle"?

[SphinxnihpS]

I always thought it was Gibby Haynes. :hmm:

KT

Ding a dang a dang along ling long!

It's a love affair, mainly Jesus and my hot rod. Yeah fuck it!

 

[KeithTalent]

Ding a dang a dang along ling long!

It's a love affair, mainly Jesus and my hot rod. Yeah fuck it!

Exactly! Dongle is just the logical progression...

KT

 

[IndyColtsFan]

This word needs to be excised from the English language. It is terrible in every way.

Could we not just call it a cellular modem?

You do know that the concept/word dongle existed well before air cards, right?

EDIT: Eaglekeeper beat me to it.

 

[BoomerD]

Probably the same guy who invented the word, "Widget."

 

[IronWing]

From today's headlines....

Ann RomneyDongle: ‘Unzip him and let the real Mitt RomneyDongle out’


Edit: Hmm, I just read the headline before. In context, it gets even better...

Asked about criticism that Romney is "too stiff," Ann Romney laughed and replied, "I guess we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out because he is not!"

 

[The Boston Dangler]

it was that chinese knock-off, the beijing dongler

 

[SlitheryDee]

It sounds like the thing it describes. I like it.

 

[MotionMan]

Youngster.

It was in use well before cell phones showed up.

Back in the 80's for propitiatory software use, it was screwed onto a serial port.

A 'dongle' covers much more than just cellular modem, so no.

You do know that the concept/word dongle existed well before air cards, right?

This (these?).

I just "installed" a wireless USB dongle for a keyboard and mouse.

MotionMan

 

[rpanic]

For security at work I have to carry my dongle around in my hand, its infuriating having to bend down to stick it in just to do my job.

 

[Modelworks]

As a security product you have no idea how much hate existed for the devices. You could have 3 different pieces of software each requiring a dongle for licensing. If you plugged in one it might cause another to quit functioning so you had to plug and unplug constantly. Then there was the problem of needing to plug in a printer too and the dongle interfering with that so people used switch boxes, which had the effect of frying some of the dongles. It was a nightmarish software protection method.

May Flexlm rot in hell .

 

[Away]

Get off my dongle.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

This (these?).

I just "installed" a wireless USB dongle for a keyboard and mouse.

MotionMan

Back in the 80s, I had some software for my C64 that required a dongle to be installed on the datasette interface. I think it was one of the Links games, but I could be mistaken. IIRC, it was just a piece of plastic which fit over the card edge connector of the datasette port and had a couple of contacts with a resistor soldered between them or something like that.

 

[edro]

There is a new Mike and Mike commercial in the morning where they say dongle.

 

[IronWing]

Let's dongle in the jongle --- well, that's all right by me.
I'm a tiger when I want love,
but I'm a snake if we disagree.













































By the time you scroll down here, it's already in your head and there ain't nothing you can do about it.

 

[sdifox]

This word needs to be excised from the English language. It is terrible in every way.

Could we not just call it a cellular modem?

wtf, dongle has nothing to do with cellular modem...

 

[CZroe]

wtf, dongle has nothing to do with cellular modem...

Indeed. OP is either an idiot or a troll.

 

[Tempered81]

Donglefapper. Doppleganger

 

[Squisher]

Would like to fondle my dongle?

 

[BabaBooey]

Leave the dongle alone !!!

 

[kage69]

Can't we all just dong along?


For some reason now I can't stop thinking about Monty Python's Are You Embarrassed Easily?

Shoe.
Megaphone.
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