[2] Common munging operations include removing punctuation or HTML tags, data parsing, filtering, and transformation.
[2] The term was coined in 1958 in the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[4] Munging may also describe the constructive operation of tying together systems and interfaces that were not specifically designed to interoperate (also called 'duct-taping').
Munging can also describe the processing or filtering of raw data into another form.
[2] As the "no good" part of the acronym implies, munging often involves irrevocable destruction of data.