[feanaro]

A bit off topic, but when did "compute" become a noun? It is extremely grating to my ears.

[EarthLaunch]

I first recall it from the rise of AWS at least. "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)" launched 2006 [0]. Google Trends [1].

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Elastic_Compute_Cloud

1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Compute&...

[overstay8930]

It was a thing in Deep Space Nine (1999) so either the lingo was really on point or it's just something that has fallen in and out of favor.

[synergy20]

it's pretty common these days due to AI with GPU-alike chips.

[greggsy]

I hear, read and use the term on a daily basis, and I would say that it emerged in my workplaces around five years ago, and came into common use around two.

[ip26]

I don’t know the reason, but I suspect you can reason it out.