browser的词源

英文词源

browser (n.)

1845, "animal which browses," agent noun from browse (v.). In the computer sense by 1982.

The first browser was invented at PARC by Larry Tesler, now a designer at Apple Computer. Tesler's first Smalltalk browser was a tree-structured device. It enabled programmers to hunt quickly for items in a Smalltalk dictionary. ["InfoWorld" magazine, vol. v., no. 4, Jan. 24, 1983]

中文词源

browser：浏览器 

词根词缀： browse吃嫩枝 + -er名词词尾 → 动物吃嫩枝需要四处搜寻 → 浏览,翻阅

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