utility (n.)

late 4c., "fact of being useful," from Old French utilite "usefulness" (13c., Modern French + utilité), earlier utilitet (12c.), fromLatin utilitatem (nominativeutilitas) "usefulness, serviceableness, profit," from utilis "usable," from uti "make use of, profit by, take advantage of" (see use (v.)). Meaning "a useful thing" is from late 15c. As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.

“… computing may

someday be organized as

a public utility just as the

telephone system is a

public utility... The

computer utility could

become the basis of a new

and important industry.”

John McCarthy, IBM,

speaking at the MIT

Centennial in 1961

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