Drilling Down into the Stickiness of Newfangled Jargon

Ever wonder how a word is created? It's simply used in print somewhere by some writer who hopes it will be understood and used by somebody else. Words are re-used in new ways all the time, but to create a wholly new word is an interesting phenomenon. How many times is the word "input" used in a day? Was it some IBM programmer sometime in the 1950s who coined the term? I wonder. I don't have the answer to this one. The Merriam-Webster On-line link on this page doesn't have the etymology of this word, and my home dictionaries are really terrible. There are thousands of new jargon words created for computer usage. The computer is a useful metaphor for thought processes, so I think that explains part of why computer jargon is exploding. I'm not sure all the terms will stand the test of time, though. "Drilling down" and "stickiness" are two terms I wish I never heard, even though I can use them properly, I think. Let's see if we can come up with some new terms that we think will last.