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Q&A When did "sandbox" come to prominence as a piece of jargon?

It may date back as far as the iPhone (2007) ref : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12055990/what-is-sandbox-in-ios-can-i-transfer-data-between-one-app-to-another-app It was in the context of ...

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar James McLellan‭ · 2022-06-16T17:35:07Z (over 2 years ago)
It may date back as far as the iPhone (2007)

ref : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12055990/what-is-sandbox-in-ios-can-i-transfer-data-between-one-app-to-another-app

It was in the context of protecting the iPhone from user applications by "sandboxing" them inside a virtual machine that I first heard the term.