Well yeah, there was a time when the title song for the Flintstones could contain the verse "we'll have a gay old time" without anyone questioning Fred and Barney's sexual orientation. Those times are gone too...

i still use the old meaning of gay. It has such a wonderful meaning

You could say the old meaning of gay is quite...gay

All I can do is upvote this but I kind of want it printed on a hoodie or something as well.

Here's OpenSSL calling cryptography crypto in 1998: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master?after=9313...

And libgcrypt in 2000: https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/bf2fc9201cfa96cd70ef...

Totally normal and not cringy at all.

Edit: And on Usenet in 1982: https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.misc&mid=dGVr...

As someone who was a developer well before Bitcoin was invented, yes, we did.

Here's a conference from 1981 put on by the IEEE:

https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf

yp.to - D. J. Bernstein's[1] domain registered in 1997 preceeds Bitcoin[2] by 12 years.

[1] https://cr.yp.to/

[2] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) is from 2001 and it may give you a good indication of what the term crypto was referring to back then.

Someone on the Internet is very wrong today.

Alright, touche.

Literally everyone did

> I'm sure

And yet you are wrong :)

> I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography"

I have to assume this is sarcasm, right?

That's literally what "crypto" has always meant for decades, cryptography.

The Crypto conference started in 1981 for instance.

https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/