Time Traveling with Words

Logophiles will love Merriam Webster's new Time Traveler website. It lets you find the first known use dates of words and terms. 

For example, wordie was first used in 1982.

I entered my birth year, 1957, and looked first for Sputnik. Sure enough, it was there. Along with many surprises, including:

• Asian flu
• cognitive dissonance
• doggie bag
• go-kart
• magic mushroom
• mainframe
• one-hit wonder
• Vietcong

Hat tip to kottke.org. Have fun time traveling!

P.S. The term "time travel" is not in the Merriam Webster dictionary, but is on wikipedia.