When Did a Token Stop Being a Coin? Meet Deduplication 🔍
Words have a way of changing meaning, especially in tech.
A bug used to be an insect. A mouse, an animal. A token, a coin. But as technology evolves, familiar words get borrowed, repurposed, and sometimes completely redefined.
So, which meaning actually wins?
Introducing Deduplication.tech, a new project by HackerNoon exploring the battle between original words and their tech-world duplicates.
We’ve mapped 719 duplicated terms across 14 fields, from agents vs. AI agents, coins vs. LLM tokens, and snakes vs. Python to clouds vs. cloud computing, public relations vs. pull requests, containers, cookies, bugs, viruses, mining, wallets, threads, and NPCs. Each pair is scored using live Wikipedia pageviews to see whether the original meaning still dominates, the two meanings are competing, or the tech...
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