lock

en-verb

lock (third-person singular simple present locks, present participle locking, simple past locked, past participle locked or (obsolete) locken)

locks (present singular third-person)
locking (participle present)
locked (past)
locked (participle past)
locken (obsolete participle past)

unlock

antonym(s) of “to fasten with a lock, to be capable of becoming fastened in place”

From Middle English lok, from Old English loc, from Proto-West Germanic *lok, from Proto-Germanic *luką from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend; turn”). The verb is from Middle English locken, lokken, louken, from Old English lūcan, Proto-West Germanic *lūkan, from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną. Related to luxe via Latin.

der

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

(Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.

заключвам

(internet) to stop others contributing to a thread, etc.

Frequently-vandalized pages are generally locked to prevent further damage.

(Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.


follower

→ Ukrainian: фоловер (folover)

/ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/

From Middle English folwer, folwere, folȝere, from Old English folgere (“follower; attendant; disciple”), equivalent to follow + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foulger, West Frisian folger, Dutch volger, German Folger, Swedish följare.

inh

Coordinate term: followee

I have over 50 followers on Twitter, but all my tweets only get 10 likes.

Talking bout these other rappers getting old is even getting old / Worrying about your followers, you need to get your dollars up

2012, “Amen”, in Dreamchasers 2, performed by Meek Mill ft. Drake:

(social media) An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.


cyberspace

en-noun

cyberspace (countable and uncountable, plural cyberspaces)

Blend of cybernetics + space, equivalent to cyber- + space, coined by American-Canadian speculative fiction writer William Gibson in his short story collection Burning Chrome (1982) and popularized in his novel Neuromancer (1984).

coin

A world of information accessed through the Internet.

Meanwhile, the pioneers of the computer-mediated communication networks collectively referred to as cyberspace are not willing to wait. Employing whatever tools they can find, they are constantly pushing the techno-cultural envelope. Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive, frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist, and more decentralized than hierarchical.

1993 March, Mitch Kapor, “Where Is the Digital Highway Really Heading?”, in Wired Magazine:

However, some have accused cyberspace of provoking a dangerous collapse in the old order of civilised society. The shift in the balance of power online has given rise to a more powerful concern: the rise of the uncivil web.

2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:

If, as we knew with increasing certainty, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and others were contesting us in cyberspace, it was time to fight back.

2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 175:

“We call on all states, including China, to uphold their international commitments and obligations and to act responsibly in the international system, including in cyberspace,” according to a statement from NATO.

2021 July 19, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, David E. Sanger, quoting NATO, “U.S. Formally Accuses China of Hacking Microsoft”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(by extension, somewhat dated) The Internet as a whole.


Internet cafe

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The Iranian police have closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours, detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral behavior, official news media said Sunday.

2007 December 17, “Police in Iran Shut 24 Internet Cafes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A place where one can use a computer with Internet access for a fee.


local

From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).
The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.

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Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "no locals allowed", […]

2018, Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend", The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018, page 25

Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.

2018 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, in University Express, University College Cork, Ireland, page 11:

Heck, even locals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste.

2019, Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes", Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019, page 60

(fandom slang, derogatory) A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.


spim

en-noun

spim (usually uncountable, plural spims)

(Internet) Unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging system.


IP address

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(Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.

عُنْوَان آي بِي

number assigned to each computer's network interface


IP

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

This IP made a disruptive edit!

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An unregistered user identified by their IP address.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


IP

IP address

Internet Protocol
Internet Protocol#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Internet Protocol.


ghost

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst (which was the word for “spirit” as well as “ghost”; the original sense survives in Modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”).
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

This will let you open a query with NickServ again so you can remove your “ghost” from the server: […]

2004, Paul Mutton, IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools, page 31:

(Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.


ghost

en-verb

ghost (third-person singular simple present ghosts, present participle ghosting, simple past and past participle ghosted)

ghosts (present singular third-person)
ghosting (participle present)
ghosted (participle past)
ghosted (past)

I'm so untechnical that I once ghosted a registered IRC nick and then tried to identify myself to NickServ with the valid password before actually changing my nick to the aforementioned moniker.

2001, Luke, “to leave (vb.): Hurg [OT]”, in alt.games.lucas-arts.monkey-island (Usenet):

(Internet, transitive) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.

I’ve recently been trying out Tinder, and while I match with people and even chat with them everything seems to be going well, but whenever I bring up meeting IRL, they are quick to ghost me.

2015 October 15, “Why is it so hard to go from chatting on Tinder to meeting up in real life?”, in The Guardian:

By 6 p.m., I had a list of restaurants to try from Hamish, a chef who couldn’t meet, a follow-up from Adam (“I’ve never seen a room at the Ace....”), and an offer from Agoraphobic Paul to come over and “have a joint and a cuddle.” I’d confirmed a walking tour of Greenwich from Max, who ghosted.

2016 March 21, Allison P. Davies, “What I Learned Tindering My Way Across Europe”, in Travel + Leisure, archived from the original on 2018-01-06:

Tinder knows me so well. It knows the real, inglorious version of me who copy-pasted the same joke to match 567, 568, and 569; who exchanged compulsively with 16 different people simultaneously one New Year’s Day, and then ghosted 16 of them.

2017 September 26, Judith Duportail, “I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets”, in The Guardian:

He had texted, called, and emailed a bunch since then. I hadn't meant to ghost, but it was just easier not to deal with it.

2018, Ling Ma, chapter 17, in Severance, →ISBN:

(slang, social media) To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.

ghosten

slang, social media: to perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media


thumbnail

desc

→ Japanese: サムネイル (samuneiru), サムネール (samunēru), サムネ (samune) — clipping

→ Portuguese: thumbnail

→ German: Thumbnail

From thumb + nail. The phrase thumbnail sketch was first attested 1852. Verb sense attested 1930s.

(social media) A picture displayed by posts and videos pre-clicked conveying the matters discussed/shown in that post.


toad

en-verb

toad (third-person singular simple present toads, present participle toading, simple past and past participle toaded)

toads (present singular third-person)
toading (participle present)
toaded (participle past)
toaded (past)

From Middle English tode, toode, tadde, tade, from Old English *tāde, a shortened variant of Old English tādie, tādiġe (“toad”).
Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted (“toad”). Compare also Danish tudse (“toad”), possibly originally from the same prehistoric root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa (“toad”), Old English tāxe (“toad”), Old English tosca (“toad”) by contrast.

(Internet, informal, transitive) To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.


draft

en-noun

draft (countable and uncountable, plural drafts)

A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”), equivalent to draw (“to draw, drag”) + -t. Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur.

draught

British spelling of many senses, but not all


cart

→ Japanese: カート (kāto)

→ Korean: 카트 (kateu)

From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), akin to Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”).
Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).


poke

en-verb

poke (third-person singular simple present pokes, present participle poking, simple past and past participle poked)

pokes (present singular third-person)
poking (participle present)
poked (participle past)
poked (past)

From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.

onomatopoeic

imitative

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

Indeed, when we poke users who normally do not have access to our profiles, they will be able to temporarily see our Basic Info, Work Info, and Education Info.

2009, Alexander Tokar, Metaphors of the Web 2.0, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 68:

(transitive, informal, social media) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.


poke

imitative

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

It could be described as a poke, but not a friendly one. For those who have not yet succumbed to Facebook, the latest craze on the internet, a ‘poke’ is an electronic greeting sent, for example, to an old friend from university.

2007 July 22, David Smith, “Faceoff!”, in The Guardian:

(informal, social media) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.


thread

From Middle English thred, þred, threed, from Old English þrǣd, from Proto-Germanic *þrēduz, from Proto-Indo-European *treh₁-tu-s, from *terh₁- (“rub, twist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Träid (“thread, wire”), West Frisian tried, Dutch draad, German Draht, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish tråd, and Icelandic þráður. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dredh (“twist, turn”). More at throw.

cog

(Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread.


portal

From Middle English portal, porttol, from Old French portal and Medieval Latin portāle, from porta.

jet bridge

elevated corridor permitting access to a plane from an airport

The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.

(Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.


seed

en-noun

seed (countable and uncountable, plural seeds)

From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
Cognate with West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), Low German Saad (“seed”), German Saat (“sowing; seed”), Icelandic sæði (“seed”), Danish sæd (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Latin satiō (“seeding, time of sowing, season”). More at sow.

alkutilanne

initial state, condition or position of a process

The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

(Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)


seed

en-verb

seed (third-person singular simple present seeds, present participle seeding, simple past and past participle seeded)

seeds (present singular third-person)
seeding (participle present)
seeded (participle past)
seeded (past)

(Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).


Wikiholic

I'm a Wikipedia editor. A Wikiholic. I have some 500 articles on my watchlist (!!!) and I edit some of the more controversial articles on WP: the Islam-related articles. For many months, I have been butting heads with some Iranian Shi'a editors...

2005 November 27, Karen Lofstrom, “Peeve: Iranian Shi'a”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

2005, Richard Quinn, as quoted by David Dyer-Bennet, “Re: Charlie Stross: Wikipedian Extraordinaire” (April 8), rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet
I was blessed with insight, that rare moment of lucidity which can truly validate the Buddhist belief in a path to enlightenment: Charles Stross is a Wikiholic!

"A lot of them are probably the sort of people who would have social problems in real life," said one wikimaniac over lunch, as though being a "wikiholic" suggested a full and active life.

2006 August 9, “Gary Younge reports on Wiki-mania, and Wikipedia vandalism”, in The Guardian Unlimited:

(wiki jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia or another wiki.

wikiholiker

person who devotes lots of time to a wiki-based project


op

(Internet) An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.


op

op (third-person singular simple present ops, present participle opping, simple past and past participle opped)

ops (present singular third-person)
opping (participle present)
opped (participle past)
opped (past)

True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem. Suppose someone joins the room after the user is opped and before the user is deopped.

1999, Cory McWilliams, “IRC Oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To promote (an IRC user) to an operator.


stuffing

en-noun

stuffing (countable and uncountable, plural stuffings)

(Internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.


Luganda

Portmanteau of Ukrainian Луга́нськ (Luhánsʹk) or Russian Луганск (Lugansk) + Uganda. Alternatively borrowed directly from either Russian Луга́нда (Lugánda) or Ukrainian Луга́нда (Luhánda).

/luːˈɡɑːndə/

Coordinate term: Donbabwe

A novel abusive word for a resident of Lugansk "Lugan-don/Lugansk-condom" can be explained as either an agglutination of the two words "Lugansk" + "condom" or as a reference to a mythological country "Luganda" whose name comprises component "Lugansk" and "Uganda".

2019, Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff, Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, →ISBN, Chapter 11, page 285:

Luhansk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic

(derogatory, humorous, Internet) Luhansk, in particular the mostly unrecognised Luhansk People's Republic.


anon

en:anonymous person
en:anonymous person on the internet

An anonymous person, traditionally especially a published author but now especially an internet rando.

(Internet) An anonymous poster (“person who contributes a note, message, etc”). A participant in an online site, such as a forum or an imageboard, without an account, or who posts without identifying themselves, or hidden behind a pseudonym.


chap

(Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).


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TCP

Transmission Control Protocol
Transmission Control Protocol#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Transmission Control Protocol.


blog

→ Bulgarian: блог (blog)

→ Catalan: blog

→ Czech: blogovat

→ Danish: blogge

tooltip

reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes

→ Dutch: blog, ⇒ bloggen

→ Faroese: blogga

→ Finnish: blogata

→ French: bloguer

→ German: Blog

→ Hungarian: blogol

→ Icelandic: blogga

→ Italian: blog, ⇒ bloggare

→ Macedonian: блог (blog)

→ Polish: blog

desc

→ Portuguese: blogue, blog (unadapted spelling)

→ Russian: блог (blog)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: бло̀г

Latin: blòg

→ Spanish: blog, ⇒ bloguear

→ Swahili: blogu

→ Thai: บล็อก (blɔ́k)

→ Turkish: blog

→ Yoruba: búlọ́ọ̀gù

Rebracketing of weblog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog.

So you see, the blog has been around since the beginning of the web; that is how basic the concept is. Today's blogs, and the activity of blogging, have taken on more meaning, but the concept of it all is still very simple and rooted in the beginning and intentions of the web itself.

2002, Biz Stone, chapter 1, in Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub., →ISBN, page 4:

Have you tried these, darling? They’re tempura zucchini flowers. Japanese-Italian fusion! My own invention. Shall I photograph it? We can put it on our blog.

2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 150:

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)

This blog was originally posted on my personal site but is reproduced on the forums for greater visibility.

(Internet) An individual post to a blog.


blog

en-verb

blog (third-person singular simple present blogs, present participle blogging, simple past and past participle blogged)

blogs (present singular third-person)
blogging (participle present)
blogged (participle past)
blogged (past)

Blogger Anil Dash summed up the initial reaction well when he blogged his assessment of Macromedia's new blogging strategy: […]

2002, Biz Stone, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub., →ISBN, page 163:

I hadn’t blogged myself, because I thought I had nothing to say. After 9/11, I did. So I planned to write the blog for a few weeks, until I ran out of memories.

2009, Jeff Jarvis, What would Google do?, New York: HarperLuxe, →ISBN, page 40:

(blogging, transitive, intransitive) To contribute to a blog.


interstitial

/ɪntəɹˈstɪʃəl/

From Latin interstitiālis. By surface analysis, interstitium + -al.

An interstitial appeared before the download.

Interstitials should be used sparingly. Display an ad only the first time the user accesses a piece of content, not every time.

2007, Barbara Ballard, Designing the Mobile User Experience, page 126:

(Internet, advertising) A web page, usually carrying advertising, displayed when leaving one content page for another.

väli-ikkuna

web page displayed before a content page


private

private (third-person singular simple present privates, present participle privating, simple past and past participle privated)

privates (present singular third-person)
privating (participle present)
privated (participle past)
privated (past)

From Latin prīvātus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from, release”), perfect passive participle of prīvō (“I bereave, deprive, release”), from prīvus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine. Doublet of privy.

der

During these negotiations, however, the Kleins say that Hosseinzadeh issued a copyright takedown for the video — even after it had already been privated.

2016 May 25, Geoff Weiss, “H3h3Productions Sued For Copyright Infringement By MattHossZone, Spotlighting Fraught Issue Of Fair Use”, in Tubefilter:

Shay has also since briefly returned to social media, making a quick post on Instagram. His account was privated following his scandal in February and his Twitter remains inactive.

2017 May 15, Rebecka Schumann, “Shay Carl’s Cam Girl Goes After Another Famous Man On YouTube”, in International Business Times:

"[…] IOI had no part in privating the subreddit, this was entirely the decision of the moderators, and we are just fellow fans like you who volunteer our time to help out," a moderator wrote.

2022 January 28, Jared Moore, “Hitman 3: Steam Owners Will Get Free Upgrades to Make Up for Shaky Launch”, in IGN:

“Must be hard being a one-hit wonder,” a follower negged me once. “Actually, yes,” I joked in a now-privated video response. “Thank you for noticing.”

2022 February 18, Sonja Smith-Yang, “I went viral on TikTok and it wasn’t what I expected”, in The Independent:

(Internet, transitive) To make something hidden from the public (without deleting it permanently).


starboard

From star + board. The earliest known use was in 2013 on Meta Stack Exchange.

The unlimited starring power is an arguably useful feature because it enables management of the starboard with notifications and the like, but I see nothing in the informal job description of a room owner that says they have any more right to spam the room than I do.

2013 June 24, Lightness Races in Orbit, “Room owners should not be throttled in the Chat systems”, in Meta Stack Exchange, archived from the original on 2015-10-01, Questions:

TFHRC#1 indicates a backquote in a chat message using fixed-width formatting, which is (correctly) output literally. FHRC#2 shows that the same backquote is misinterpreted by the sidebar starboard as a formatting character, wrecking the intended look and feel even more.

2014 April 7, michaelb958--GoFundMonica, “Starred fixed-width messages break in the starboard”, in Meta Stack Exchange, archived from the original on 2014-08-07, Questions:

In case you don't know what a starboard is, it's basically a system used on Discord that whenever you react with a star emoji, the message is showcased inside of a #starboard channel.

2017 September 21, DimMagician, “I made a Starboard site!”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2023-06-07, r/discordapp:

(social media) A feature that allows starred messages to appear on a list.


Holy Grail

the Holy Grail (canonical)
Holy Grails (plural)

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From Middle English Holy Grayle.
(web page layout): So called because it was traditionally difficult to achieve with the available markup.

(Internet, informal) A web page layout with fixed-width columns to the left and right, and a central area that fills the remaining space.


follow

en-verb

follow (third-person singular simple present follows, present participle following, simple past and past participle followed)

follows (present singular third-person)
following (participle present)
followed (participle past)
followed (past)

From Middle English folwen, folȝen, folgen, from Old English folgian (“to follow, pursue”), from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną (“to follow”).

inh

If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.

(social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.

فولو

to subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform


follow

It doesn't take too many follows to become overwhelmed with the deluge of content on Twitter.

2012, Brett Petersel, Esther Schindler, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Twitter Marketing:

Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:

(social media) The act of following another user's online activity.


cyber-

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(Internet) Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally.


meme

Shortened from mimeme, equivalent to mime + -eme.
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.

coin

Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.

1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:

Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.

2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, page 242:

The original Hobson and Jobson stock comic characters have died out as a meme, as has the application of their names to the Muharram in India.

2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At ‘Hobson-Jobson’”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 67:

(originally) Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change.

1994 January 10, Mike Godwin, “Meme, Counter-meme”, in Wired:

I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.

2005, darklily, “OT: Livejournal”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet):

The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.

2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:

Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]

2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, in The Guardian:

Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don’t.

2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

He said that NFT sales had helped establish memes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.”

2021 April 29, Marie Fazio, quoting Ben Lashes, “The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.

This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.

I'm always posting memes on the groupchat.

(Internet) A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.

It's a meme degree, you know. Good luck getting a job from that.

Jogging is a meme.

(Internet slang, derogatory) Something not to be taken seriously; a joke.

kink meme

anon meme

(Internet) A work produced and shared in response to a prompt or suggestion within an online group.


meme

en-verb

meme (third-person singular simple present memes, present participle meming or memeing, simple past and past participle memed)

memes (present singular third-person)
meming (participle present)
memeing (participle present)
memed (participle past)
memed (past)

One axiom commonly seen on /pol/ is "The Left Can't Meme"; in other words, left-wing meme jokes aren't funny.

2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!:

(intransitive, Internet slang) To create and use humorous memes.


ng

(Internet) Initialism of newsgroup; also NG.


webmail

en-noun

webmail (usually uncountable, plural webmails)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-webmail.wav

Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are well-known webmail services.

A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser.

I'm going to check my webmail.


nuke

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

(colloquial) vessel running on nuclear power

Confronted with the threat of several nukes on the island, we soon realized that the Long Island Sound is being used as a massive cooling basin for nuclear reactors.

1979, Anna Gyorgy et al., “Atomic Power, Nuclear Plants”, in No Nukes: Everyone’s Guide to Nuclear Power (Black Rose Books; no. I.49), Montreal, Que.: Black Rose Books, →ISBN, page 406:

Nukes Don't Pollute

2002, Home Power - Issues 86-91, page 121:

He calculates that nukes might be needed to power energy-intensive “large scale co2 sequestration techniques” as well.

2010, Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, page 155:

We've analyzed employee manifests at all nukes, LNG, and refineries in the United States for Middle Eastern profile matches.

nuclear power station
nuclear power station


nuke

en-verb

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

nukes (present singular third-person)
nuking (participle present)
nuked (participle past)
nuked (past)

The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. "Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [..."]

2009 July 14, Lucian Constantin, “Master Control Server for Mydoom DDoS Botnet Tracked to UK: Security Experts Stress that North Korea’s Involvement in the Attacks is Unlikely”, in Softpedia News, archived from the original on 2016-05-09:

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).


astroturfing

From AstroTurf (“a synthetic substitute for grass”), a play on grass roots, as in “fake grass roots”. Attributed to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in an unidentified 1985 public statement: "[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grassroots and Astroturf."

(originally US politics, now social media, marketing) The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event, i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.

Tarnung einer Kampagne als Volksbewegung


hero

en-noun

hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense) heros)

→ Hindi: हीरो (hīro)

→ Japanese: ヒーロー (hīrō)

→ Korean: 히어로 (hieoro)

→ Thai: ฮีโร่ (hii-rôo)

[ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]

From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.

der

(web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.


stub

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352:

(programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.

Coordinate term: skeleton

The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:

(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66:

(wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.

بذرَة

(wikis) page providing minimal information


corn

For the rhyme, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.

(Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn


sub

* Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.
* (lend a person money): From subsidize.

I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.

(Internet, informal) Clipping of subtitle.

I'm totally stoked; just got 10 new subs after my last video.

(colloquial, Internet) Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.

subi

subscription to an online channel or feed


sub

en-verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

subs (present singular third-person)
subbing (participle present)
subbed (participle past)
subbed (past)

switch

one who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role

(slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).


Uniform Resource Locator

en-noun

Uniform Resource Locator (plural Uniform Resource Locators)

(computing, Internet) A universal address for resources on the internet, which is most commonly used for websites.

ΟΕΠ

ομοιόμορφος εντοπιστής πόρων (omoiómorfos entopistís póron)


filter

→ Japanese: フィルター (firutā)

→ Korean: 필터 (pilteo)

From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See felt. Doublet of phin.

(social media) an appearance-altering digital image effect

filtro

digital image effect used on social media


email

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

He sent me his details via email.

The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.

(uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.

e-pos

דואר אלקטרוני \ דֹּאַר אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִי

ímél

now officially endorsed but still less common

He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.

I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.

(countable) A message sent through an email system.

e-pos

message sent through email an email system

What’s your email?

In this system, your username is your email.

Don’t send personal messages to my work email.


email

en-verb

email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)

emails (present singular third-person)
emailing (participle present)
emailed (participle past)
emailed (past)

e-pos

(transitive) to send an email or emails to

I’ll email you the link.

He emailed the file out to everyone.

(transitive, ditransitive) To send (something) through email.

e-pos

(transitive) to send (something) through email

átküld

optionally adding: e-mailen, if the context doesn't make it clear

Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

(intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

e-pos

(intransitive) to send, or compose and send, an email or emails


email

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

der

Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!

1579 January 11, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page xxxiv:

It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.

1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], →OCLC, signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only, 1883–1884, →OCLC, pages 242–243:

Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.

1684, [Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, in Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […], →OCLC, pages 96–97:

(obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).


badge

→ Japanese: バッジ (bajji)

→ Korean: 배지 (baeji)

From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”).

cog

When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge.

(Internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.


fold

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.

1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 77:

(by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.


moot

Clipping of mutual with humorously altered pronunciation.

Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there

2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter", ZaofuToday, Issue 1, page 10

I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.

2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business", EnVi, Winter 2021, page 222

RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other

2022, anonymous, quoted in Fayika Farhat Nova et al., "Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence Within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter", Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022 (article link)

(Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.


XNAY

Initialism of X-No-Archive: yes., a Usenet message header that indicates the message should not be retained on the server after delivery. Probably also influenced by ixnay.

(Internet slang) Indicates the poster’s request for a message not to be stored in Usenet archives.


fragment

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“I break”) + -mentum.

der

Holonym: anchor link

The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.

Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications.

2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 523:

(Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.


wikify

en-verb

wikify (third-person singular simple present wikifies, present participle wikifying, simple past and past participle wikified)

wikifies (present singular third-person)
wikifying (participle present)
wikified (participle past)
wikified (past)

The Los Angeles Times proved this last week, with its high-minded but ultimately hilarious attempt to 'wikify ' its editorial column.

2005 June 26, Frank Kane, “Eureka! Journalists may not be doomed after all”, in The Observer:

Although he's adamant that NCBI is not going to "wikify" GenBank, Lipman says he's eager to work with mycologists to come up with a solution, possibly through RefSeq.

2008 March 21, Elizabeth Pennisi, “Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance”, in Science:

(transitive) To make into a wiki, or to use a wiki approach for.


GNAA

The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) was created in 2002, and typified this sort of extreme trolling. Their opening page featured the following invitation: “Are you GAY? Are you a NIGGER? Are you a GAY NIGGER? If you answered ‘Yes’ to all of the above questions, then GNAA might be exactly what you're looking for!”

2015, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net, Melville House, →ISBN:

Asked why GNAA is getting involved in the election now, Meepsheep demurred. “The media has created a lot of fertile soil for trolling and I’m sure you’ll start seeing a lot more out of the GNAA and others within the next few months,” he or she wrote.

2016 October 13, Brendan O'Connor, “Internet Trolls Vandalize Hillary and Bill Clinton's Wikipedia Pages in Extremely NSFW Way”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2023-02-28:

Gay Nigger Association of America
w:Gay Nigger Association of America

(Internet) Initialism of Gay Nigger Association of America.


story

desctree

Sranan Tongo: tori
Aukan: toli
→ Dutch: tori

→ Welsh: stori

→ Persian: استوری (estori)

→ Portuguese: estória

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes from Latin historia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.

der

What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]

(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

Worshippers in Mecca are streaming their stories live on Snapchat, opening up the Saudi city to non-Muslims online.

2015 July 14, Aisha Gani, “Mecca worshippers stream their stories live on Snapchat”, in The Guardian:

People can make stories public or private, and can choose if they want only a subsection of their followers to view them.

2016 August 2, Mike Isaac, “Instagram Takes a Page From Snapchat, and Takes Aim at It, Too”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

I have come across a few (OK, two) Stories that have made me laugh. And when that happens, the medium frustrates even more with its fleetingness. But here’s hoping the Instagram Stories on my feed improve as time goes by. The End.

2016 August 12, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Instagram Stories: who cares about your commute or cleansing routine?”, in The Guardian:

While it might seem harmless to sneak the occasional peek at their Story or see what they’ve been watching on Netflix, Fortin says you’re leaving yourself open to “potentially stressful situations that may come at a time when you're gaining momentum in your progress.” Think about it—if their number isn’t blocked, you’ll jump at each noti wondering if it’s them.

2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan:

(social media, sometimes capitalized) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.


story

en-verb

story (third-person singular simple present stories, present participle storying, simple past and past participle storied)

stories (present singular third-person)
storying (participle present)
storied (participle past)
storied (past)

But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.

2018 February 12, Josh Duboff, “Reese Witherspoon Is Natalie Portman’s Instagram Guru”, in Vanity Fair:

I hereby argue that the only thing that would make these mini Friends reunions truly complete would be contributions from Aniston herself, who decidedly does not have an Instagram page. Imagine the content possibilities: Aniston looking flawless and chic by the pool; Aniston Storying herself shopping at Gelson’s; […]

2019 June 24, Christian Allaire, “Jennifer Aniston, We Beg You, Get on Instagram”, in Vogue:

(transitive, intransitive, social media, sometimes capitalized) To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.


metaverse

From meta- + (uni)verse. Analyzable as meta- + -verse. In the sci-fi sense coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in 1992.

coin

It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it.

1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, pages 354–356:

But now, with 350 million players who are used to hanging out in a vibrant, ridiculous online world filled with dancing bananas and cartoon skirmishes, Party Royale could be the experience that finally realises the idea of a playful, mass participation online metaverse.

2020 May 15, Keith Stuart, “Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse”, in The Guardian:

Video games like Roblox and Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in which players can build their own worlds, have metaverse tendencies, as does most social media. If you own a non-fungible token or even just some crypto, you’re part of the metaversal experience. Virtual and augmented reality are, at a minimum, metaverse adjacent.

2021 July 10, John Herrman, Kellen Browning, “Are We in the Metaverse Yet?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In the world of Snow Crash, the metaverse is not viewed as particularly cool—it is necessary, because the real world has become so unbearable.

2021 July 30, Brian Merchant, “The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea”, in VICE:

The metaverse is the convergence of two ideas that have been around for many years: virtual reality and a digital second life.

2022 January 18, Brian X. Chen, “What’s All the Hype About the Metaverse?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction, Internet) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.


page

→ Hindi: पेज (pej)

→ Japanese: ページ (pēji)

→ Korean: 페이지 (peiji)

Via Middle French from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.


like

en-verb

like (third-person singular simple present likes, present participle liking, simple past and past participle liked)

likes (present singular third-person)
liking (participle present)
liked (participle past)
liked (past)

Jersey Dutch: lāike

Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), German Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic líka (“to like”).
Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).

inh

падаба́цца (padabácca) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

plaĉi al (intransitive, the person who likes is marked with the preposition al)

dáma (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

hóva (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

líka (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

falla (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

plaire (à)

gefallen (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

מָצָא חֵן בְּעֵינֵי (matzá ẖen b'enéy, literally “found grace in the eyes of”) (with subject and object reversed)

tetszik (with the person or thing liked in the dative)

podobać się impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

нра́виться impf (nrávitʹsja) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case) (e.g. мне нра́вится (mne nrávitsja) + nominative case - I like + object)

сви́ђати се impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

svíđati se impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

zespódobaś se pf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

all above + indirect object: ལ་དོན (la don) (oblique/dative-locative case) (ལ/-ར (la / -ra))

подо́батися (podóbatysja) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

געפֿעלן (gefeln) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.

I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.

What' up, y'all? I'm the last man on Earth. Shit's all fucked up. Don't forget to like and subscribe. We out here.

2021, Adam McKay, Don't Look Up, spoken by Jason Orlean (Jonah Hill):

(Internet, social media, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

հավանել

to show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote


like

→ Russian: лайк (lajk)

→ Ukrainian: лайк (lajk)

→ Spanish: like, likear

Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:

Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes

2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia:

Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits.

2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times:

(Internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.


wallop

en-verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

wallops (present singular third-person)
walloping (participle present)
walloped (participle past)
walloped (past)

(Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.


sysop

(computing, Internet) A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An administrator on a wiki.


disambiguation

en-noun

disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)

/dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/

(wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.


park

en-verb

park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)

parks (present singular third-person)
parking (participle present)
parked (participle past)
parked (past)

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

cog

(Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)


bouncer

(Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.


mirror

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy."

ncog

Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.

(computing, Internet) A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.


exploit

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

(by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.


googlewhack

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From Google + whack. Coined by Gary Stock on 8 January 2002.

(Internet) A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.


googlewhack

en-verb

googlewhack (third-person singular simple present googlewhacks, present participle googlewhacking, simple past and past participle googlewhacked)

googlewhacks (present singular third-person)
googlewhacking (participle present)
googlewhacked (participle past)
googlewhacked (past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To search for something using Google, resulting in a single hit.


IM

en-noun

IM (countable and uncountable, plural IMs)

Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.

2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective, page 49:

(Internet) Initialism of instant message.

Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!

2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:

Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy.

2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:

instant messaging
instant messaging#English

(Internet) Initialism of instant messaging.


block level element

block level element (plural block level elements)

(HTML) An HTML element that normally begins on a new line, and may or may not contain other block level elements or inline elements.


pod

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

unc

uncertain

gloss

"seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">pod-ware</i> (“legume seed; seed grain”)

ncog

I'd started shopping at 2 a.m., and the pod I listened to while shopping was almost through, so had to be 3 damn near.

2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:

(informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.


stitch

en-verb

stitch (third-person singular simple present stitches, present participle stitching, simple past and past participle stitched)

stitches (present singular third-person)
stitching (participle present)
stitched (participle past)
stitched (past)

From Middle English sticchen, stichen, from Old English *stiċċan, stiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *stikjaną (“to stab, stick, prick”), influenced by the noun (see above).

inh

One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰

2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 186–187:

She talks briefly about their park picnic and then inserts a cliffhanger: “I’m going to stitch this when we’re either in a relationship or he absolutely obliterates my self-esteem.” (Stitch is a creation tool that allows users to add new content to an existing video.)

2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times:

To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.

(TikTok) To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.


web hosting

The service of hosting a web site on the Internet, making it viewable by other users.


creator

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From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

Coordinate term: influencer

creator economy

People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.

2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.

2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian:

(social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

creator

one who regularly produces and publishes content on social media — see also content creator


blogger

The New York Times called it “another signal moment for bloggers,” while over at HardwareGeeks.com (“a community for sophisticated geeks and geekettes”), they were flying the victory flag: “A blogger with a White House Press pass? Just another sign of the times and another indication that bloggers are as powerful as regular media.”

2005 March, William Powers, “Sleeping With the Enemy”, in The Atlantic:

(Internet) A contributor to a blog (from weblog) or online journal.


sticky

en-adj

sticky (comparative stickier, superlative stickiest)

stickier (comparative)
stickiest (superlative)

(Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.

(Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.


sticky

en-noun

sticky (countable and uncountable, plural stickies)

(Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.


sticky

en-verb

sticky (third-person singular simple present stickies, present participle stickying, simple past and past participle stickied)

stickies (present singular third-person)
stickying (participle present)
stickied (participle past)
stickied (past)

(Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.


immortal

From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis), equivalent to im- + mortal. Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ.

Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals. […] Immortals do not need experiance^([sic]).

1999, Corey Crawford, “RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals”, in rec.games.mud.announce (Usenet):

(Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon.


forward

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).

der

When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails.

2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting, page 27:

This method attaches the files to a new email, which is fine if you want to create a new email. The only problem with this is that it doesn't work if you'd rather send forwards or replies.

2009, Joli Ballew, Windows 7 for the Over 50s in Simple Steps:

(Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.


part

en-verb

part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)

parts (present singular third-person)
parting (participle present)
parted (participle past)
parted (past)

From Middle English parten, from Old French partir.

ayrılmaq

to become divided in two or separated; shed

He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"[…]so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do[…]maybe talk[…]so we did[…]since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).

2000, Phantom, “Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).


dewikify

dewikify (third-person singular simple present dewikifies, present participle dewikifying, simple past and past participle dewikified)

dewikifies (present singular third-person)
dewikifying (participle present)
dewikified (participle past)
dewikified (past)

I dewikified "a kind of deciduous tree" to "a kind of deciduous tree".

(wiki jargon, transitive) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.


reaction

Inherited from Middle English reaccion, from Old French reaction, from Latin reāctiō, from the verb reagō, from re- (“again”) + agō (“to act”); more at re-, action; equivalent to react + -ion.

(Internet) An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it.


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.


LC

en-noun

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)

(fashion on the Internet) Initialism of legit check.


bounce

en-verb

bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)

bounces (present singular third-person)
bouncing (participle present)
bounced (participle past)
bounced (past)

From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.

The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.


bounce

en-noun

bounce (countable and uncountable, plural bounces)

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.


blackout

en-noun

blackout (countable and uncountable, plural blackouts)

→ French: blackout

→ German: Blackout

→ Portuguese: blecaute, blackout

the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout

A group of Redditors, many of whom are moderators, organized a temporary boycott, with participating subreddits going private or restricted for 48 hours starting on Monday. A Twitch stream tracking the blackout claimed that nearly 8,500 subreddits, some with tens of millions of subscribers, had gone dark by Tuesday afternoon.

2023 June 14, Sara Morrison, “The ongoing Reddit Blackout, explained”, in Vox:

(Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.


firehose

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2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference
The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.

(Internet, neologism) Access to the social media data sold to the third parties, or such data stream.


bong

(slang, Internet, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong.


cyber

Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.

I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way.

2021, Charles P. Pierce, “Vladimir Putin Is a King Bullshit Artist,” Esquire, June 17 [quoting Joe Biden]

Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative spelling of cyber-


cyber

These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.

2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice:

2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber
The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.

(singular only) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.


tag

en-verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

tags (present singular third-person)
tagging (participle present)
tagged (participle past)
tagged (past)

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.

2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82:

(transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.

taggare

to attach the name of a user so that they are linked from the post


news

Sranan Tongo: nyunsu

From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs (“news”), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”), though unlike the English word, these originated as genitives, not plurals. Sometimes erroneously claimed to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

Is there any news about the storm?

That was not much news in the press release.

VVith speede let vs impart the newes vnto my Lord the King,
The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin,
Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

Sirra, your Lord and maſters married, there's newes for you: you haue a new Miſtris.

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 239, column 1:

When theſe news were brought to him, ſome counſelled him to go to Stirlin, where the King was, and where he would be the ſtronger.

a. 1630, David Hume of Godscroft, The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, Edinburgh: […] Evan Tyler, […], published 1644, page 302:

The Usenet news system brings people together from around the world and forms social groups on the basis of common interest. Usenet news is a domain that is suffering badly from information overload.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs, page 207:

(Internet) Messages posted on newsgroups.


spyware

In the end of the 90s we call^([sic]) this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]

2017 December, 5:24 from the start, in Interview with hacktivist Jaromil, ArtEZ studium generale:

(Internet) Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user.


magnet

→ Cebuano: magnet

→? Indonesian: magnet

→? Malay: magnet

→ Tagalog: magnet

→ Welsh: magnet

From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, magnētem (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium.

der

μαγνῆτις 􂀿λίθος􂁀

Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling^([sic]) it together.

2019, David Adams, Ann-Kathrin Maier, Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared, page 142:


dislike

(Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.


dislike

en-verb

dislike (third-person singular simple present dislikes, present participle disliking, simple past and past participle disliked)

dislikes (present singular third-person)
disliking (participle present)
disliked (participle past)
disliked (past)

Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.

(Internet) To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.


topic

From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”), of Pre-Greek origin.


cloak

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative.
Doublet of cloche and clock.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.


wizard

4chan
English Renaissance
Fizban the Fabulous
en:wizard

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates in or outside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.

Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]

1997, Philip Agre and Douglas Schuler, Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice, page 153:

It is certainly easy to believe the stories I hear of MUD wizards who demand deference and severely punish those who transgress […]

1997, Sara Kiesler, editor, Culture of the Internet, page 132:

(Internet) One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.

mag

internet: administrators of a multi-user dungeon


clique

Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by "claque", though this may have happened in French rather than in English.

claque

another type of ingroup of people with biased interests

Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.

1999, Jackie, “someone help me out?”, in alt.fan.leo-dicaprio (Usenet):

even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...

2000, - deanna -, “ot: hiya”, in alt.fan.backstreet.boys (Usenet):

you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats^([sic]) usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques, and webrings.

2001, spee2k, “future no doubt website....”, in alt.music.no-doubt (Usenet):

(Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.


doge

From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.

Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).

2015 July 23, Dave Lee, “Six times Reddit wasn't completely awful”, in BBC:

(Internet slang, humorous) Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.


mod

en-noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up.

2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Reddit's R/Relationships Subreddit Is Moderated”, in The Atlantic:

(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.

Mods, kill this guy with hammers.

(Internet slang, originally Twitch-speak, humorous, in the plural) Used to express a wish of removal or, often hyperbolic, harm (as opposed to a literal request to moderators).


mod

en-verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

mods (present singular third-person)
modding (participle present)
modded (participle past)
modded (past)

Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.

I used to mod that forum.

(transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.


skeet

Blend of sky + tweet, from the resemblance to tweets posted on Twitter. Strongly discouraged by CEO Jay Graber.

Bluesky’s users appear to be having fun with the app’s similarities to Twitter, including calling posts on the app “skeets,” as a play on tweets. Not even a plea from Ms. Graber on Thursday to change that name seems to have deterred them.

[2023 April 29, Sheera Frenkel, “Interest Builds Over Bluesky, A Social Site Akin to Twitter”, in New York Times, page B3:

At first, it was kind of fun when Bluesky broke.[…] When threading broke – causing people to receive tonnes of notifications if they replied to a long enough chain of skeets – users created the "hellthread", an infinitely long, chaotic conversation

2023 June 10, Annalee Newitz, “And now for something completely familiar”, in New Scientist, volume 258, page 22:

My last ‘toot’, as Mastodon’s users call tweets, was in December. I’ve never even done a ‘skeet’, the unfortunate name of the Bluesky version.

2023 July 22, Max Chafkin, “What if the next big social media app is ... Nothing?”, in Irish Examiner, Cork:

Bluesky’s faithful have playfully dubbed posts “skeets” in contrast to tweets – although Bluesky’s own CEO Jay Graber has begged users to stop using that term.

[2024 July 2, “X alternative Bluesky finally opens up for all: What’s the hype about?”, in Indian Express, Mumbai:

Another skeet! Blue Sky^([sic]) is clearly taking off – not content with picking up a million new accounts on Friday, and another million on Saturday, it has now played its part in two posts on the OBO.

2024 November 17, Tim de Lisle, “West Indies v England: fifth men’s T20 cricket international – match abandoned”, in The Guardian:

(Internet slang) A post on the Bluesky social media platform.


mort

(Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.


beacon

From Middle English beken, from Old English bēacn (“sign, signal”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (compare West Frisian beaken (“buoy”), Dutch baken (“beacon”), Middle Low German bāke (“beacon, sign”), German Bake (“traffic sign”), Middle High German bouchen (“sign”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂u-, *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”).

emergency position indicating radio beacon


hydration

en-noun

hydration (usually uncountable, plural hydrations)

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From hydrate + -ion. The programming terms come from the concept of data lake.

(web design) Client-side rendering of pre-rendered static server data, e.g. to make dynamic web pages.


banner

From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.

(Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.


incomplete

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

(Usenet) A multipart file posted to a Usenet newsgroup that is incomplete and thus unusable.

(video games, Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.


mention

Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).

"I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."

2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic:

In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].

2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today:

I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).

2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times:

(Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.


react

en-verb

react (third-person singular simple present reacts, present participle reacting, simple past and past participle reacted)

reacts (present singular third-person)
reacting (participle present)
reacted (participle past)
reacted (past)

(Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).


react

Sad reacts only

(Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.


raid

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

der

I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour.

2022 January 28, D4TBOl, “I need some help with preventing raids”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-09-06, r/discordapp:

Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]

2022 March 7, AcousticJamm, “Raid prevention tools”, in Reddit, r/guilded:

(social media) An event involving a flash mob of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.


toot

en-noun

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude.
Noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).

As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.

2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine:

Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.

2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express:

Mastodon users can send toots with 500 characters as opposed to Twitter's 140. But that's not the only difference. Individual toots can be marked as private, meaning you don't have to choose between a public or a private account like on Twitter.

2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia:

So if I follow Nick, his toots (yep, they're called toots) will show up in wandering.shop's federated timeline.

2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker:

(countable, social media) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.


toot

en-verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

toots (present singular third-person)
tooting (participle present)
tooted (participle past)
tooted (past)

Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.

One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).

2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times:

Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.

(social media) To post a message on a Mastodon instance.


unlike

unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked)

unlikes (present singular third-person)
unliking (participle present)
unliked (participle past)
unliked (past)

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.

I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.

Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.

2009, Ben Zimmer, “On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8

My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.

2010 June 25, TheKorn, “Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet):

(Internet) To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites.


unlike

Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.

2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans, page 552:

On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]

2014, Ekaterina Walter, Jessica Gioglio, The Power of Visual Storytelling, page 13:

(Internet) The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.


route

route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routing or (UK) routeing, simple past and past participle routed)

routes (present singular third-person)
routing (participle present)
routeing (UK participle present)
routed (participle past)
routed (past)

From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin [rupta] via (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route.

der

(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.


shout

en-verb

shout (third-person singular simple present shouts, present participle shouting, simple past and past participle shouted)

shouts (present singular third-person)
shouting (participle present)
shouted (participle past)
shouted (past)

From Middle English shouten. Further origin uncertain. Possibly related to Middle English shooten (“to shoot (out)”) or from or akin to Old Norse skúta (“to chide, scold”), Old Norse skúti, skúta (“a taunt”). See also the second, rare sense of the verb scout (“to reject with contempt”).

cog

Please don't shout in the chat room.

(Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.


Usenet

From USENIX, a group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”).

And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.

2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-11-09:

(Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject.

يُوزْنِت

a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject


server

→ Danish: server

→ Dutch: server

→ German: Server

→ Hindi: सर्वर (sarvar)

→ Hungarian: szerver

→ Italian: server m

→ Japanese: サーバー (sābā)

→ Korean: 서버 (seobeo)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: server, sørver

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: server, sørvar

→ Persian: سرور

→ Polish: serwer

→ Portuguese: server

→ Romanian: server n

→ Russian: се́рвер (sérver)

desc

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Turkish: server

From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve + -er.

Please take a look at my log its completely going haywire… My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels.

2020 August 11, EasyCompZeeland, “My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels… out of the blue”, in Official TeamSpeak Community Forum, TeamSpeak Server:

Discord gives you the power to create an invite-only home for your friends or community - a place where you can talk, hang out, and have fun. We call these special places - servers [...]

2020, “Beginner's Guide to Discord”, in Discord Help Center:

Basically like how there is an emoji button for statuses and bios but make them for certain settings such as channel names or descriptions. This little QOL(quality of life) change would add a slightly faster way of navigating through channels and add a nicer more organized appearance to some servers.

2024 June 30, Narunzo, “I can't find a decent place where I can post a suggestion and it would be seen by staff in Guilded so I'm posting my suggestion here”, in Reddit, r/guilded:

(social media) A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.


SFAIK

so far as I know
so far as I know#English

(Internet) Initialism of so far as I know.


electronic mail

en-noun

electronic mail (countable and uncountable, plural electronic mails)

Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today.

1992, Sara Radicati, Electronic Mail: An Introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 1:

(uncountable, networking) Email (the system).


site

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi,
[G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.

When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.

2006, Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 248:


meatspace

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From meat + space; by analogy with cyberspace.

The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.

2019 April 7, Rita Liao, “The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films”, in TechCrunch:

(Internet, often derogatory) The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.


impression

impression (countable and uncountable, plural impressions)

From Old French impression, from Latin impressio.

Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.

2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 329:

(Internet) A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.


viral

The end game of that is the GoFundMe link posted beneath a viral tweet so they can pay for their health care. Being an influencer sounds fun until it’s ‘keep producing viral content to literally stay alive.’

2021 March 24, Charlie Warzel, quoting Anil Dash, “What Are You Paying for When You Buy a GIF for $25,000?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(social media) Circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another.

(of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulating rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another


GC

(education) Initialism of Google Classroom.