Etymograph

English

anternet

Blend of ant + internet.

A blend of ant + internet

Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā

Old English ǣmete

Middle English ampte ‘an ant’

English ant

The story

Coined by Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University.

Today it means

noun The means by which ants communicate with each other, analogous to the TCP/IP algorithm that the internet uses to control the flow of data.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / anternet