computerdom

[ kuhm-pyoo-ter-duhm ]

noun

1. the culture of computers and computer users.
2. a world ruled or dominated by computers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of computerdom¹

First recorded in 1965–70; computer ( def ) + -dom ( def )

Example Sentences

And though he went on to become, for a time, the golden boy of Silicon Valley--in 1981 Apple's $334 million in sales dwarfed Microsoft's puny $15 million--it was Bill Gates who became the emperor of all computerdom.

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The good news in computerdom is that the sluggishness appears to be over and many makers of personal computers are once again registering record revenues and plump profits.

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Beneath computerdom's Big Three, a host of other companies, including Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Zenith and Atari, are scrambling for a share of the growing market.

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Along with Luke, Darth Vader will be back, as menacing as ever, as will Princess Leia, Han Solo, the Wookie Chewbacca and computerdom's cutest robots, Artoo Detoo and Threepio.

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Thanks to the wonders of computerdom, the Mark-46 also has a built-in, all-but-infallible killer's instinct.

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