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The Oxford English Dictionary has 166 words with first citations from 1983. In that year, the most productive source of neologisms appears to be computing, with hot keys, MUDs, sysadmins, spell-check, and WANs, among other words; technologies that would blossom in later decades make their appearance, like cellphones and print on demand; moshing, MIDI, and beat-boxes were sweeping the music world; and the genre of cyberpunk was getting underway.