How did the term “Booting up” come from?
The computer term “booting up” comes from the phrase “Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.”
Though “booting up” is a phrase slowly falling out of popular use in favor of more practical terms like “turn on your computer,” it’s still one that everyone knows. A variant of the term, “reboot,” (which again the existence of should be no surprise) was even the title of a children’s show several years back.