Did @MARVELstudios & @NETFLIX Redefine #Reboot with their Retcon of Reality in the @SpidermanMovie #NoWayHome?

I discuss MARVEL STUDIOS' & NETFLIX's 'incidental collaboration to redefine that word' in a paying discussion you can access through the bold hyperlink below; but first—there might be something more to that word ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Reboot” is (obviously) built on “Re- + the verb #Boot.”

I first heard it as a computer-operation—'shutting it down and starting it back up,' possibly even 'unplugging it & letting it cool-down a little first.'

It's actually the way programmers start up computers---not by flipping a switch, but by loading an operating-system an operating-system into its memory.

Then (and possibly "influenced by" that meaning) I heard it applied to shows (mostly movies) that are 're-imaginings of old favorites.'

That sense of "Boot" is actually short for #Bootstrap, the program-type that technicians named after the (Impossible) Task of #PullingYourselfUpByYourOwnBootstraps, a Figurative Description of '|Bettering Yourself by Rigorous, Unaided Effort." 

(The #Bootstraps are those |Straps of |Fabric on the Back of the #Boots, where you Hook your |Finger to Pull the Boots On.) 

"Boot" is also a form of the verb "to |Kick" (most often referring to "|Kicking someone Out of a group or -building), and it's also the gerund "a Making |Better, Improvement" (now mostly used in the phrase #ToBoot, describing something thrown in to Sweeten a Bargain). 

And of course there are the various ancient words that refer to "the Covering for the Foot and Lower Leg" (words that also refer to "the Fixed External Step of a Train's Coach" and "the Low |Outside Compartment used for |Stowing |Luggage" (which is also Britain's name for 'what Americans call a Trunk')).

#Booted #Booting #Rebooted #Rebooting #Reboots #Bootleg #Bootless #BootLicker #Jackboot #BootUp #BootBlack #BootJack #BootHill

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Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
 Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
 alone":  "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows

 him why he's not"—Won't you show me
 if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?

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