Who Invented Multi Tasking?

(Image inspired by Jessica Hagy.) While we're on the subject, the word multitasking first appeared in 1965 IBM report talking about the capabilities of its latest computer. That's right, it wasn't until the 1960s that anyone could even claim to be good at multitasking.

When was multitasking first used?

The word “multitasking” first arose in 1965, in reference to using a single computer to simultaneously carry out two or more jobs.

Where does multitasking come from?

also multi-tasking, "concurrent execution of a number of different activities," 1966, originally in computing, from multi- "many" + tasking (see task (n.)). Of humans, by 1998.