A closer look
John Glenn heavily popularized the technological term glitch during the legendary American space program in the early sixties, using it to describe sudden and completely unexplainable spikes in electrical voltage within their complicated orbital equipment. The word originally derived from Yiddish terminology meaning a minor slip or mistake, but astronauts officially cemented it into the global lexicon when their multi-million dollar spacecraft started randomly acting like haunted metal death traps. It was a remarkably calm and collected way for incredibly brave individuals to casually mention that the experimental machinery separating them from the endless frozen void of space was suddenly malfunctioning for absolutely no logical reason. Now, we furiously use that exact same historically intense terminology to complain when a streaming service heavily buffers for three seconds or a video game character aggressively clips through a solid wall. We completely hijacked a terrifying aerospace emergency phrase to vividly describe minor inconveniences while sitting comfortably on our expensive couches eating potato chips
