@hroncok I'd never though it that and it sounds plausible (de-fault, to undo a fault), but I looked it up and it's original meaning is failing to do something, like defaulting on a loan is failing to meet financial commitments.
The computing sense is an extension. The OED says:
"An option or setting that is adopted automatically by a computer program whenever an alternative is not specified by the user or programmer."
It's like you fail to set something, so it defaults to a fallback.
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