Where tech terms like 'bug,' 'robot,' and 'cloud' originally came from

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Thanks to the smartphones, tablets, and laptops we're increasingly carrying around all day, computer jargon is entering our daily speech at an alarming rate. But these words started somewhere else.

From bugs to cloud to to mice to spam, here's where we get 11 common computer terms.

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