On the Creation of Words

Language is all around us. It allows us to express our feelings and communicate with our neighbors. As we humans have evolved from our ape-like ancestors that hunted mammoths with stone tools, and into our current state of people who hunt digital pigs with digital bird-like projectiles, our language has evolved in order to express our new social styles, technologies, and ways of thinking. I believe that if you asked a 15th century Pope (the "big cheese" so to speak of the center of pop culture and social style of his time) where the nearest gas station was there would be a high possibility of him not understanding in the least bit what you were talking about. I use the preceding example in no way to disrespect the Catholic Church, but to demonstrate how language changes with the times.
Over the past two decades, since the rise of the Internet as a main form of communication and interaction between people, we can see that a number of words have been created, or have had new meanings made for them by social people with a collective need to express themselves. Let us take a look at Google. Before 1998, who would have heard of such a word besides Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The only people who could have conceivable have heard a similar term of googol (a numeric giant expressed as ten to the hundredth power) would be chemists, physicists, and mathematicians. However, after 14 years Google is a household term used to describe a digital machine that searches the web for anything you want through a series of well crafted algorithms and it is a publicly traded company that made a profit of $10 billion last year. I would say that's pretty profound accomplishment for the technological world.
Now, what comes to mind with the word "text"? Is it the words that you are currently reading? Yes, it is, but usually the first thing that comes to mind (especially for children of the new millennium) is a quick 160 or so character message of text sent from one person to another over a cellular phone. I refer to it as the day dreaming of the modern era. In days of old (the '70s) people stared out into space during a boring math class and imagined themselves doing more exciting things with their friends who they would see after class ended. Today, our technology has caught up with our need to be social and we can be always aware of what our friends are doing because of the great (and discreet) substitute for talking, now known as the "text message", much to the chagrin of our math teachers.
We also allow our need for new words to change the meanings of our grammar and usage, something that shakes old nuns and language teachers to their core. For instance, the word "like". The rise of Facebook and its rapidly approaching 1 billion members have turned this common preposition into a verb. It has made people start "to like" pictures and wall posts, even if they wish to show their displeasure when it comes to a post. Oh how I and many other Facebook users would love a "dislike" button. Mark Zuckerberg, if ever read this please honor our request.
Among those listed above, here are a few more words that have been added to our ever growing English language through popular usage:

• Muggle: a word that my spell check does not like (no pun intended) that arose through the immense popularity of the Harry Potter series. Thank you J.K. Rowling for your contribution.
• Yahoo: another search engine, created before the rise of Google.
• Xerox: a noun and the name of a company that has been shortened from the word xerography, or a photocopying technique, and is now the commonly used office verb "to xerox (something)"
• Samesicle: a interjection invented by my lovely girlfriend in order to express similar feelings and thoughts. Thank you my love for your contribution. 

Well, that's all that I can think of for now, as the sponge of my mind has been wrung dry. Please let me know if there are any other words out there that I may have missed. I invite you all to invent your own words and add them to the comments section on this post. Please keep your minds out of the gutter guys. Hope you enjoyed my random thoughts on the development of language based on pure social need. Have a good one.