Past tense of upload; transferred data or files from a local computer to a remote server or network location.
Modern compound formed by 'up' (indicating direction) and 'load' from Old English 'lād' (way, course). Coined in computing context in the 1970s as the opposite of 'download,' using spatial metaphors for data transfer.
The terms 'upload' and 'download' use vertical metaphors that don't really match how data moves through networks - information doesn't literally go 'up' to servers in the sky! This spatial language helps us visualize abstract data transfers by borrowing from our physical experience of moving things up and down.
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