cube farm

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Below is an instance of "cubicle farm" in 1987. This sense differs
from a "cube farm" within an office, but this example may help to
trace the evolution and emergence of the term.

Date: March 24, 1987
Article: BUILDER FACING A UNITED FRONT RIVER'S EDGE RESIDENTS FIGHT GARAGE PLAN
Newspaper: Philadelphia Daily News (PA)
Authors: ANN GERHART and CYNTHIA BURTON, Daily News Staff Writers
Database: NewsBank Access World News

[Begin excerpt]
For neighbors, the residents have a city auto impoundment lot, a city
trash incinerator, a storage cubicle farm and block after block of
crumbling, abandoned brick warehouses. They don't have a drugstore,
corner grocery, taproom or newspaper stand.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here's a June 1997:
>
> [Begin]
> Do you head for the cube farm every weekday morning anxious about
> being Dilberted, or worse, chain sawed?
> ...
> [Gareth] Branwyn has produced "Jargon Watch" (HardWired Books, 1997)
> described as a "pocket dictionary for the jitterati" (those who fear
> they are outside the digital revolution).
> ...
> * Cube Farm: An office filled with cubicles.
> [End]
>
> And Now, a Lexicon for the Non-Wired
> June 02, 1997
> http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-02/news/ls-64831_1_wired-magazine
>
> ---
>
> The book came out in May 1997, and maybe "cube farm" was also in an
> earlier edition of Wired magazine.
> http://www.amazon.com/Jargon-Watch-Pocket-Dictionary-Jitterati/dp/1888869062
>
> Hugo
>
> PS :)
> http://www.americandialect.org/americandialectarchives/aug97.txt
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