Another normal day at the office, I needed to use a program that required a dongle, reached down to plug it into the USB port and couldn't get it in. Knelt down on the floor and tried again, but just couldn't get it. Got all the way down on the floor, still was having problems getting in into the damm USB slot for some reason.

Then I hear a quiet voice "John?"

"Yes" I reply.

"Oh Good I was afraid you had passed out or something when I saw your legs sticking from behind the desk" I realized it was the cute girl from fiscal now that she had spoken more.

"I'm OK just trying to stick my dongle in this slot" I reply.

I hear a giggle and realize what that sounded like. The rest of the week everyone in the entire building has been laughing about me down on the floor behind my desk trying to stick my dongle in the slot.

Once again I find my curiosity peaked, who in the world came up with the name dongle? I have searched every way I can think of and can not find the answer. The closest I have found is an apparent myth that it was created by someone named Don Gall.

Do you know? Speculation?