New words are added to our collective lexicon — some of which are just corruptions of existing words –- and old words sometimes receive new definitions. For instance, when one of the first computer viruses to infect personal computers reared its ugly head, users had to come up with the term "computer virus" in order to succinctly describe it. And the dictionary of terms used to describe computer functions and conditions has only ballooned since then. Much computing jargon has been adopted from seemingly random words and phrases, and while the origins and reasons for some are self-explanatory, others are just plain wild. Read on to learn the crazy origins of several computing terms most people take for granted.