>>And the explorers... first they never said "internet explorer" - that's perhaps allowed for us or reporters to say, but coming from M$ it's always "Microsoft internet explorer" - not a misnomer this time, because it wasn't much use for regular internet, only for Microsoft internet (i.e. where sites run on Front Page and teem with ActiveXes). And the other two... I never managed to explore a single window or a file using those.
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>Let's also include phrases like 'consuming a file' for processing data. Since definitions of 'consume' fall to the "eat or ingest (food or drink)" or destroy by fire, every time I hear someone say "the system consumes the file" I want to ask if there's a little pile of 1's and 0's next to the server as ashes or other..

I think it's a pile of something else, but a pile just the same.