Just come from another group where it was suggested that Microsoft 
invented the term 'word wheel', 'word-wheel' or wordwheel' to 
describe an on-screen database search interface as described at 
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/word-wheeling .
Does anyone know when and where the term first appeared?
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"Ildhund"  wrote in message 
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> Just come from another group where it was suggested that Microsoft 
> invented the term 'word wheel', 'word-wheel' or wordwheel' to describe 
> an on-screen database search interface as described at 
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/word-wheeling .
> Does anyone know when and where the term first appeared?

I think it has also been used to describe what others call a wordsnake. 


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15:46, sabato 3 maggio 2008, Nickel Arse:
> "Ildhund"  wrote in message
>
>> Just come from another group where it was suggested that
>> Microsoft invented the term 'word wheel', 'word-wheel' or
>> wordwheel' to describe an on-screen database search interface
>> as described at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/word-wheeling .
>> Does anyone know when and where the term first appeared?
> 
> I think it has also been used to describe what others call a
> wordsnake.


In the Unix/Linux world there is something like that called
"incremental-search".


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