Where did the word proxy come from?

Question

git

Reading about proxies, they begin to give examples of some client servers along routes and so on.
Where did this word come from and what is its general purpose?

Answer 1

find . -name "*" -print0 -exec git update-index --chmod +x  '{}' \;

Answer 2

Why not just
chmod -R a+x *
git commit -a "permissions"
?
Come on and try
find . | xargs -n 1 git update-index --chmod=-x

Answer 3

From the Latin proximus - "nearest"
At the dawn of the Internet, proxy servers stood at the connection nodes of the local network (that is, they stood close to the client ) and the world one, stored frequently requested pages on themselves and gave them away without pulling the server on the Internet, relieving the load from the main canal.
The reverse proxy is thus close to the server (that's why it is reverse)

Answer 4

Proxy translated from English: confidant, deputy, voice transmission
This, it would seem, fully reflects the essence .. But if you look at socks 5 https proxy, then the switch is closer in meaning, and even then without the possibility of wiretapping