An etymology I've always been curious about is that of the word port, as applied to software. As far as I can tell, it doesn't appear until the '90s. Prior to that, the term was convert, and I believe I've seen that used as late as the early '90s, but it goes all the way back to the '60s at least, so it was a pretty durable term. At some point though, somebody said port, and for whatever reason, everyone around them picked the word up and carried it into the whole sprawling global industry. I'm really curious exactly when and how and why that happened.
Edit: it's older than I thought. I found at least one very solid use of the term in a 1983 Computerworld, so probably what actually happened is that both terms coexisted for a while and then one faded away
