Bootstrapping (computing) | Wikipedia audio article

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00:00:37 1 Etymology
00:02:05 2 Applications
00:02:14 2.1 Computing
00:02:22 2.1.1 Software loading and execution
00:03:46 2.1.2 Software development
00:06:09 2.1.3 Compilers
00:06:36 2.1.4 Installers
00:07:08 2.1.5 Overlay networks
00:07:29 2.1.6 Discrete event simulation
00:08:06 2.1.7 Artificial intelligence and machine learning
00:08:53 2.2 Statistics
00:09:08 2.3 Business
00:10:43 2.4 Biology
00:11:14 2.4.1 Phylogenetics
00:11:37 2.5 Law
00:11:51 2.6 Linguistics
00:12:03 2.7 Physics
00:12:11 2.7.1 Quantum theory
00:12:29 2.7.2 Magnetically confined fusion plasmas
00:12:56 2.7.3 Inertially confined fusion plasmas
00:13:19 2.8 Electronics
00:13:32 2.9 Electric power grid
00:14:20 2.10 Cellular networks
00:14:57 2.11 Media
00:17:16 3 See also



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In general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to proceed without external input. In computer technology the term (usually shortened to booting) usually refers to the process of loading the basic software into the memory of a computer after power-on or general reset, especially the operating system which will then take care of loading other software as needed.
The term appears to have originated in the early 19th-century United States (particularly in the phrase "pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps") to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.