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by stubish 1167 days ago
I agree that the movie, released in 1982, is likely the source for the term sharding used by games, consciously realized or not. Most of the generation would have seen it. Or perhaps from where Henson and Froud likely got the idea of a crystal shard containing a complete copy of the whole, holography, which I think got into the public consciousness in the 70s and 80s.