wikiphobe

([URL redacted] and [URL redacted] for the wikiphobes :)

2005 November 10, Bryan Derksen, “Re: Venusian orbital carbon industry?”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet):

However, (pace the wikiphobes) you could look at the wikipedia page for "grammar", which will tell you it comprises phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

2006 July 18, Richard Herring, “Re: Word count of minimum vocabulary”, in sci.lang (Usenet):

If, on the other hand, you can't get your inner wikiphobe to shut up, then Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody is the book for you.


vlogosphere

From vlog + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

A bit older than most of vlogging's main practitioners — who tend to be in their mid- to late-20s — the self-proclaimed baby boomer cites Hodson as one of two artists whose work attracted her to the vlogosphere.

2006, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, volume 29, page 32:

But even if you don't have movie-studio muscle to devote to your monologues, there are still ways to make a splash in the vlogosphere.

2006 September 24, Anna Kuchment, “Technology: Want to be a Video Star?”, in Newsweek:

The terrain conquered by these cyberpioneers? The blogopshere (and its videostreaming complement, the vlogosphere).

2013, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Inna Arzumanova, “Creative Authorship: Self-Actualizing Individuals and the Self-Brand”, in Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner, editors, Media Authorship, Routledge, →ISBN, page 162:

(Internet) The realm or culture of vlogs; all vlogs taken as a whole.


YouTubian

en-adj

YouTubian (comparative more YouTubian, superlative most YouTubian)

more YouTubian (comparative)
most YouTubian (superlative)

As large as the current Google database is, even bigger shocks are coming. An avalanche of digital video measured in exabytes (10 to the 18th power, or 1,000 petabytes) is hurtling down from the mountainsides of panicked Big Media and bubbling up from the YouTubian depths.

2006 October, George Gilder, “The Information Factories”, in Wired:

First I'm going to do something prototypically YouTubian: I'm going to talk about myself.

2008, John Green, "Introduction", in Alan Lastufka & Michael W. Dean, YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts, O'Reilly Media (2008), page ix

In these YouTubian times, there's a certain peril in conducting a multi-city stand-up comedy tour: Punch lines precede their progenitor.

2008 April 21, Teresa Wiltz, “Sharp Edge, Lethal Aim: Chris Rock Brings the Pain to D.C.”, in The Washington Post:

(Internet) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube.


YouTubian

YouTubians, as many of us now refer to ourselves, have started to focus not only on the events of our own lives and the expression of our own views, but on the welcome response of others, from not only around the nation, but around the world.

2006, Andrew Riggins, "Blogging will lead to face-to-face interaction" (letter to the editor), The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas), Volume 101, Number 14, 20 September 2006, page 5

Millions of us YouTubians laughed, out-loud some of us, as we watched a middle aged lady walk into the retaining wall of an ornamental fountain, fall head first into the water, thrash around as if being attacked by piranhas for a few seconds, clamber out and then continue to shop as if nothing had happened.

2011 May, Tony Millin, “Public inconvenience”, in Cardiff Now, page 26:

I took a video and posted it to YouTube, where my fellow YouTubians charitably pointed out I was crazy.

2013 December 13, Del Stone Jr., “Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snap out of it!”, in Northwest Florida Daily News:

(Internet) A user of video-sharing website YouTube.


cybermartyr

The most famous exception is Kevin Mitnick, the "dark side" hacker who became a cybermartyr after languishing in jail for four years without trial.

1999 June 6, Chris Taylor, “Geeks vs. G-Men”, in Time:

Under the DMCA, selling a tool that breaks copy protection warrants jail time, and Sklyarov, a frail-looking techno-waif with a wife and babies at home, became an instant cybermartyr.

2002 March 17, Steven Levy, “Locking Up Your Rights”, in Newsweek:

In 2011, efforts by several governments to shut him [Julian Assange] and WikiLeaks down made him the world's first cybermartyr.

2010, Ian Bremmer, Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World, Portfolio, published 2013, →ISBN:

(Internet) A person persecuted or punished for online activity.


subrequest

(computing, Internet) A secondary or subsidiary request.


elseweb

From else + web, after the pattern of elsewhere.

Elseweb there is a discussion about top vs bottom posting.

2007 July 2, nickie{D}, “netiquette: top vs bottom posting”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

I just got through telling this story elseweb this morning.

2008 March 20, Penelope Periwinkle, “Re: For Bill”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):

Heh, well you know I remember The Herbs, from an icon I use elseweb :-)

2011 October 26, Dom, “Re: -[I]- Nobel prizes”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):

(Internet) At some other place on the Internet.


lurkership

en-noun

lurkership (countable and uncountable, plural lurkerships)

I'm going back into lurkership - but I'll probably pop up from time to time, be warned!

1999 March 16, TragedyTrousers [username], “Re: back home to a new world - the world of modems”, in uk.games.computer.quake2 (Usenet):

Sorry, have to come out of my state of lurkership to respond, completely off-topic, and say as far as I know it's actually only America (maybe Canada?) that has a silent 'h' in herbs.

2000 July 20, Samantha, “Re: Eddings pronounciation^([sic]) guide”, in alt.fan.eddings (Usenet):

I was just starting emerge from lurkership into this discussion group when it has lately become swamped by this non-controversy.

2001 April 5, Tom Wallis, “RE: New venue announced for discussions of Akinicity.”, in rec.heraldry (Usenet):

(uncountable, Internet) The state or quality of being a lurker.

This newsgroup might have a higher lurkership than normal because of the theat^([sic]) of harassment from the cult, the general level of flammage and spam, and the controversial nature of the topic.

1996 December 2, Martin Hunt, “Re: Nobody cares what cult critics think”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

I should imagine we have quite a large lurkership, who have subscribed and are desperately waiting for a few meaty threads.

1997 November 22, Stuart Lavin, “ABRR: Make ABRR Glorious Again”, in alt.books.robert-rankin (Usenet):

The lurkership has expanded because I've given each of my flying monkies^([sic]) computers!

2000 May 5, Gilligan, “Re: .asa lurkership expanding”, in alt.sailing.asa (Usenet):

(countable, Internet) The lurkers who frequent a newsgroup, message board, etc., taken as a group.


geoportal

(Internet) A form of web portal that handles geospatial information


haul video

Have you heard of 'hauling' or, to be a little more precise, a haul video? For those of you who aren't wholly up-to-date on the latest internet lingo, let me explain. Used mostly for retail purposes, a haul video is when a person records what items they purchased from stores, displaying each as they are unpacked, and then posts it to the internet, most likely onto YouTube. During the brief video, the purchaser might go over basic product details, prices and his or her own opinions of the […]

2014, Larry Mogelonsky, Hotel Llama, Author House, →ISBN, page 318:

The majority of a haul video's content, however, is dedicated to the “haul” itself: meaning, these users' recent purchases. And an entire wing of YouTube is occupied by these videos, some with remarkably high viewership. Haulers will go through their purchased goods one-by-one, placing them near the camera so viewers can see the details in each object, and often making observations and recommendations as they go along. Within YouTube's haul discourse, there remain two […]

2016, Aaron Duplantier, Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube, McFarland, →ISBN, page 132:

The haul video's emphasis on quantity over quality reaffirms the stereotypical depiction of female shoppers as irrational, easily swayed, and unable to resist a good bargain. And yet the calm, careful manner that most haul performers adopt when describing their hauls flips this stereotype by emphasizing perform as “economically instead the consumers' rational skill actor[s].”

2017, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer, Performance Studies in Canada, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN:

Haul videos were still popular, but she thought I should be paying attention to another trend: “Secondhand clothing and thrifting is so hot right now.”

2021 February 6, Rachel Monroe, “Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World”, in The Atlantic:

A video posted on the Internet consisting of someone demonstrating and discussing items which they have recently purchased.


megamenu

The webOS version of Facebook uses a megamenu for streamlined navigation, avoiding the extra navigation found in a Springboard pattern.

2012, Theresa Neil, Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, page 27:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet, graphical user interface, neologism) A dropdown menu that expands into a relatively large and complex interface rather than a simple vertical list of commands.


SNPP

(Internet) Simple Network Paging Protocol


LMGTFY

(Internet) Initialism of let me google that for you.


SAX

(computing, Internet) Acronym of Simple API for XML.


flexbox

flexbox (countable and uncountable, plural flexboxes)

Internet Explorer 9 does not support flexbox.

(web development, uncountable) A CSS3 layout model that allows elements on a web page to be arranged in certain ways within a one-dimensional container.

The contents of a flexbox can be positioned in any direction, can have their order swapped dynamically, and can auto-adjust their sizes and positions based on available space.

2012, Sergey Mavrody, Nika Mavrody, Sergey's HTML5 & CSS3: Quick Reference, page 112:

There's still quite a bit of tumult in the standards recommendations and implementations for flexboxes, but IE10 and Windows 8 has a good, solid implementation of this extremely helpful layout technique.

2013, Jeremy Foster, CSS for Windows 8 App Development, page 161:

You can nest flexboxes inside each other.

2014, Andy Harris, HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies:

(web development, countable) An HTML element that uses this model.


pupper

Around the same time, “wholesome” memes of cute doggos and puppers rejuvenated social media feeds that seemed daily filled with fresh horrors.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(Internet slang) Synonym of dog or puppy.


bashtag

Blend of bash (“disparage, criticize”) + hashtag.

blend

The threat of a viral video or Twitter “bashtag” takedown has raised the cost of direct manipulation and greenwash.

2012, Dana O'Rourke, Shopping for Good, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 22:

The hashtag became a bashtag and Twitter users were instead using it to share their negative experiences of McDonalds,^([sic]) letting others know about the poor service and bad food they had experienced.

2013, Robert Ashton, Jessica Juby, Writing for the Web: Teach Yourself, McGraw-Hill, unnumbered page:

Unfortunately, while you like your product, others may feel differently. It doesn't take long for a hashtag to become a bashtag.

2014, Michael Cross, Social Media Security: Leveraging Social Networking While Mitigating Risk, Syngress, →ISBN, page 99:

(Internet) A hashtag used to criticize something, especially one that was intended for promotional use but repurposed by users to criticize that which it was intended to promote, or make the opposite point.


quirks mode

backward compatibility
backward compatibility

(Internet) A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages that do not comply with modern standards. When such a page is detected, it is rendered in the older, non-standard way.


autoconfirm

en-verb

autoconfirm (third-person singular simple present autoconfirms, present participle autoconfirming, simple past and past participle autoconfirmed)

autoconfirms (present singular third-person)
autoconfirming (participle present)
autoconfirmed (participle past)
autoconfirmed (past)


indeffed

Shortened from indefinite (block) + -ed.

Someone else may want to consider whether the AFDs should be closed as initiated disruptively by a sock of an indeffed user.

(Wikimedia jargon) Used to describe a user, account, or IP address that is indefinitely blocked or banned from editing or other actions.


twidiot

(Internet slang, neologism, derogatory) Someone who posts stupid remarks on the Twitter microblogging service.


trolldom

(Internet) The realm or sphere of trolls (online troublemakers).


picture-in-picture

(graphical user interface, Internet) A feature where video content floats over the web page as a separate element.


sharing economy

en-noun

sharing economy (plural sharing economies)

The sharing economy reveals a return to behaviors such as bartering and to legal forms like co-operatives.

2011, Lucy Bernholz, Philanthropy and Social Investing Blueprint 2012, →ISBN, pages 33–34:

Tight economic times and a growing openness to strangers thanks to the Internet have given rise to the "sharing economy." People are logging on to sites and apps to rent out their cars, houses and even their clothes directly to one another.

2013 September 16, Eliana Dockterman, “The Rise of 'Sharecations'”, in Time, retrieved 2014-06-17:

In the sharing economy, safety issues, taxes and regulation have tended to be an afterthought.

2014 April 21, David Streitfeld, “Companies Built on Sharing Balk When It Comes to Regulators”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-17:

(economics, public policy) A system of economic exchange in which participants interact in a direct and cooperative manner, often with the aid of social media, to produce, market, and consume goods, services, and resources.


uberblogger

But then an uberblogger, Mickey Kaus of slate.com, commented on my comment, and his comments were responded to and picked up by others.

2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blog Wars, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 18:

Roberts is referring to the time constraints on his ability to write a media column for Westword's print edition as well as being the "uberblogger" for Westword's news blog, called The Latest Word.

2008 November 22, “Mr. Roberts at new helm”, in Rocky Mountain News:

But conservative uberblogger Instapundit — aka Glenn Reynolds — had another reaction.

2009 October 27, Victor Morton, “Inside Blogotics”, in The Washington Times:


photoblogger

From photo + blogger or photoblog + -er.


subforum

(Internet) A single message board that is part of an online discussion forum.


Redditor

/ˈɹɛdɪtə(ɹ)/

From Reddit + -or, or as a blend of Reddit + editor.

Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.

2013, Darin Jewell, Conrad Jones, Publish and Promote Your Ebook in a Day, page 140:

/u/RemindMeBot can be invoked by a Redditor to remind them of a thread or comment after a certain period of time.

2016, Robert W. Gehl, Maria Bakardjieva, Socialbots and Their Friends:

The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.

2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A contributor to Reddit, a news and discussion website.


e-alert

An alert sent by e-mail or similar electronic means.


UGC

(Internet, social media) Initialism of user-generated content.


Instagram

/ˈɪnstəɡɹæm/

Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.

According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online for Instagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.

2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, in New York Times:

Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit

2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, in The Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury:

(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.

insta-

instant; long predates Insta; likewise productive of compounds, and ultimately cognate, but essentially homonymic


webometrics

(Internet) The measurement and subsequent analysis of links on the World Wide Web.


Twitterstorm

Witness the “Twitterstorm” Domino's faced when a video surfaced of one franchisee's employees adding, shall we say, extra ingredients to its pizzas.

2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 79:

It wasn't entirely bad; it allowed me to get online to help with the Twitterstorm we were organizing to draw attention to fossil fuel subsidies as world leaders arrived in Rio for an environmental summit.

2013, Bill McKibbon, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, Times Books, →ISBN, page 154:

There was an almost-instant Twitterstorm. The entire British Eurovision audience […] went completely berserk.

2013 May 17, “Eurovision is marching to the beat of a different drum”, in Belfast Telegraph:

(Internet) A flurry of increased activity on the social network Twitter, especially over a controversy or popular event.


chiclet

(Internet) A button allowing the user to subscribe to an RSS feed.


show notes

Several schools of thought exist on how to approach show notes. Some podcasters say you should be very brief, using notes only to hold URLs and other pieces of important offline data that your listeners may not have had time to write down as the show was playing.

2020, Tee Morris, Chuck Tomasi, Podcasting For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 197:

Text notes that accompany a podcast and describe its content.


opless

There's also #drum - a opless hangout for bofhs with a large LART who aren't afraid to use it.

1999, Tachyon, “Re: [I] IRC - I'm confused/in need of help”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):

Another thing I suggest is opless channels.

2001, cLIeNUX user, “Re: [9fans] irc client (maybe server) project looking for contributors”, in comp.os.plan9 (Usenet):

(Internet, IRC) Without ops (channel operators).


retweeter

According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]

2013, Daxton Stewart, Social Media and the Law, page 42:


n/t

(Internet, initialism) no text; used as the body of a forum message where the title contains all that the poster wishes to say


synflood

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

(Internet) A denial-of-service attack in which the attacker sends a succession of SYN (synchronization) requests to the target system in an attempt to consume its resources and make the system unresponsive to legitimate traffic.


synflood

en-verb

synflood (third-person singular simple present synfloods, present participle synflooding, simple past and past participle synflooded)

synfloods (present singular third-person)
synflooding (participle present)
synflooded (participle past)
synflooded (past)

(Internet) To carry out an attack of this kind.


live-tweet

live-tweet (third-person singular simple present live-tweets, present participle live-tweeting, simple past and past participle live-tweeted)

live-tweets (present singular third-person)
live-tweeting (participle present)
live-tweeted (participle past)
live-tweeted (past)

Or maybe, like Stern, you can live-tweet comments about a television show as it is broadcast.

2011, David Meerman Scott, The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

Realizing the need he had discovered—no record of the General Assembly's proceedings had to that point existed on Twitter—he returned the next night to live-tweet the whole event.

2011, Writers for the 99%, Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America, OR Books, →ISBN, page 84:

We weren't planning to live-tweet the birth, but we felt in that moment that we needed the power of prayer.

2013, Kelsey Williams, “Rooney's Birth Story”, in Parenting, Uncensored: Straight Talk from Real Moms on Giving Birth, →ISBN:

He dreams of Mars as he bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable. Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live-tweet his poops.

December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine:

(Internet) To provide real-time updates or commentary on an event in progress through Twitter posts.


Nagle's algorithm

(Internet) An algorithm for improving the efficiency of a network by combining a number of small packets, or messages, and later sending them in a single operation.


Wikidata

A free-content, multilingual, online knowledge base and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.


datenkraken

Borrowed from German Datenkraken, plural of Datenkrake, itself a compound of Daten (“data”) and Krake (“octopus”), invoking an imagery of such a company being an octopus having its virtual "tentacles" deeply penetrating its users' online habits.

It is a narrative that has cast the American datenkraken as the arch enemy.

2014, Juliette Garside, The Guardian., Europe gears up to fight back against giant US beasts of the internet:

(derogatory) Internet-oriented companies that have a large number of users and possess detailed personal information on them, presumably without their consent.


e-gold

From e- + gold, originally the name of an Internet company that operated from 1996 to 2009.

My personal view on e-gold, e-bullion, or whatever you want to call it is simply: Don't.

2009, Sean Brodrick, The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide:

Operated from the United States, the e-gold system allowed anyone anywhere in the world to open accounts […]

2014, Philip Mullan, The Digital Currency Challenge:

The holder or recipient of an e-gold currency could do whatever they want with the currency—it could be traded further […]

2014, Daniel Adeoyé Leslie, Legal Principles for Combatting Cyberlaundering:

(finance) gold traded over the Internet.


nom de clavier

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-nom de clavier.wav

Coined in English from French nom (“name”) + de (“of”) + clavier (“keyboard”), by analogy with nom de plume.

Then we have people who use a nom de clavier, but whose real names are known to many of us.

2002 September 18, Padraig Breathnach, “Re: Introducing myself”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

So is Whet Moser simply a nom de clavier? There seems to be a real Marooner by that name (different bio from Mo's).

2003 April 21, Michael Dix, “Re: Sox fans just bloodthirsty?”, in chi.general (Usenet):

In fact, Dejagoogle finds 27 hits with me posting under that nom de clavier between November 2001 and December 2002.

2004 February 20, Bob Cunningham, “Re: The business of America is Halliburton”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

(Internet, humorous) A pseudonym used in online communications; a handle.


Vimean

A place for Vimeans to post horror or thriller movies they like or created!

(Internet, neologism) A user of the video-sharing web site Vimeo.


visitors' book

(Internet) A feature of a website performing a similar function to a written guest book.


trollbuddy

"Oh, look, everyone -- our friend Gabe must've persuaded one of his trollbuddies over on alt.flame to drop by, after all!"

1998 November 25, Pat Knight, “Re: A rant”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):

Why should I, you and your sicko trollbuddies Riddles and BingoTroll do such a good job jamming up alt.cats with lies on your own.

2002 May 17, Bob Brenchley, “Re: Animal Abuse”, in alt.cats (Usenet):

Sometimes they have 2 or 3 flamers suddenly on a board...all beginning at the same time, often supporting the other screenname...too stupid to know people will know they are one person or trollbuddies.

2002 June 30, !PowerUser! [username], “Re: I LOVE WINDOWS, I LOVE WINDOWS!!!!!”, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (Usenet):

(Internet) A person with whom one trolls or a fellow troll on a particular message board, newsgroup, etc.


twoosh

Intentionally trying to write a twoosh is almost as challenging as writing haiku, although twooshes do frequently occur on their own!

2010, Hollis Thomases, Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:

On Friday, the administration also released some behind-the-scenes footage. It shows an aide, deputy director for online outreach Kori Schulman, complimenting the president for what she calls a “twoosh," or a perfect, 140-character tweet (a Twitter swoosh).
"Are you proud of me?" he asks.
“It was a record for twooshes," Schulman says.
"I'm the twoosh master," Obama says.

2012 May 25, Michael A. Memoli, “Obama declares himself a 'master tweeter'”, in Los Angeles Times:

5 a.m. Dubuque time: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart." It was a twoosh, a Twitter term for a tweet of exactly 140 characters.

2012 December 13, Jim Winter, “OMG! Pope Sends Tweet”, in Telegraph-Herald:

(Internet, slang) A tweet which exactly meets the 280-character (previously 140) limit set by microblogging service Twitter.


Twittermob

We live in an age when the old media claim to be the voices of calmness and reason amid the storm, comparing themselves favourably with the lawless frontier towns and torch-wielding Twittermobs of social media.

2011 July 30, Steven Baxter, “The press will not learn from the Chris Jefferies case”, in New Statesman:

What is it about the era we live in that means these kind of Twittermobs can emerge with such speed and ferocity?

2012 April 3, Brendan O'Neill, “The Twitterstorm against Samantha Brick is infinitely uglier and nastier than the article she wrote”, in The Telegraph:

2012, David Banks, "How do you prosecute a Twittermob?", 26 April 2012 (used in title only)

(usually derogatory) A group of Twitter users targetting an issue or individual, especially one that forms suddenly and is viewed as hostile.


DITA

(Internet) Initialism of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (an XML data model for authoring and publishing)


DITA-OT

(Internet) Initialism of DITA Open Toolkit


hovercard

(Internet) An informational pop-up on a web page, activated when the user mouses over it.


Twitterbot

Automated Twitterbots collected all tweets related to the trial – marked by the posters with the tag '#spectrial' – and distributed them as a central feed for anyone who wished to follow the debate in real time.

2013, James Allen-Robertson, Digital Culture Industry: A History of Digital Distribution, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1:

Even better, they've set up a Twitterbot: Just send a tweet with a bike's serial number to @ISITSTOLEN and the bot will check both sites, and report back!

2014 July, Pax Rasmussen, “News and ideas for a healthier, more sustainable future”, in Catalyst Magazine, volume 33, number 7, page 12:

That was flagged up by a Twitterbot, @RuGovEdits, an automated Twitter account that crawls the online encyclopedia for such edits.

2014 July 24, Toby Manhire, “The Wikipedia editors rumbled as government staffers”, in New Zealand Listener:

A program used to produce automated posts on the microblogging service Twitter; by extension, a Twitter account featuring posts produced by such a program.


Polandball

Compound of Poland + ball, coined circa 2009.

One comic, in which Poland flies into space and stops Russia using Crimea as a means of ramming the United States, has shot to the top of the charts in the Polandball sub-forum on Reddit.

2014 March 4, Emmet Ryan, “Polandball is Reddit's answer to Crimea crisis”, in The Daily Business Post, Businesspost.ie, retrieved 2014-11-01:

This Polandball comic sums it up better.

2014 September 11, Arunabh Saikia, “Why Some Calamities Are More Equal Than Others”, in The Newslaundry:

2014, "Mexicoball", The Polandball Book, →ISBN:

It’s also gotten attention from the Polish media. Gazeta Wyborcza reported on it (po polsku), and, on Culture.pl, Wojciech Oleksiak wrote an in-depth English analysis, including a presumably tongue-in-cheek guide to drawing a Polandball.

2015 May 2, Steven Hoffman, “How Polandball can of taking over internets”, in Krakow Post:

international relations
international relations

A user-generated internet meme, where countries are presented as spherical personas (countryballs) that interact in often broken English, poking fun at national stereotypes and international relations; an individual spherical persona from this.


YouPube

Recent viewing: Doug Stanhope on YouPube

2007 January 1, Hypodeemic Nerdle, “Festivities”, in uk.misc (Usenet):

just being looking around on youpube etc. jan hammer stuff and the Dx7...god i wanted one of those!!

2009 January 19, Jules, “dragon 32 + freecycle + stupid woman”, in uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s (Usenet):

Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming YouPube links on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people

2010 August 27, The Patrick Michael Sullivan UCM Repost Project, “Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming libel and drivel on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet):

erm you mean arrange your will to include whoever finds your remains to post said video on youpube?

2012 April 30, JimK, “White spirit won't burn?”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):

(derogatory, Internet slang) The video-sharing site YouTube.


Tumblrite

And even if people did care, there is no turning back, not with devout Tumblrites and Instagrammers constantly shoving this pop fashion down our throats […]

2013, Becki Jenkins, "Music is taking over the fashion world…", MIC Magazine, 15 May 2013, page 41

So it's hard to determine if losing faith in humanity is even a common-held sentiment that people hold, or an exaggerated phrase designed for some kind of "oh no you didn't!" reaction that shocks the hearts of Tumblrites.

2013, Dylan Hendrickson, "No hope for humanity", The Mustang (San Diego Academy), Volume 18, Issue 2, 7 November 2013, page 10

In front of children on their parents' shoulders, fashionably dressed teenage Tumblrites, and several pockets of breakdancing troupes set up directly on the Yonge-Dundas blacktop, he demonstrated the bag of performance tricks that have bolstered his reputation.

2014 July 24, Jordan Sowunmi, “APB at Yonge-Dundas Square”, in NOW, Toronto:

(social media, sometimes derogatory) A user of the microblogging and social networking site Tumblr.


hateblog

Every reasonable source (aka not Democratic hateblogs) also disproves this troll's idiotic claims.

2009 October 27, Jim Alder, “Re: Another leftard lie about President Bush”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

The legislation was a formal expression of support for Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan student government president who has been in the news lately as the target of a hate-blog written by Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan assistant attorney general.

2010, "ASG Complicates Simple Opportunity", The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas), Volume 105, Number 15, 10 December 2010, page 4

Not only did 9/11 confirm this, but the rising cases of social media terrorism though uncensored hate-blogs have also awakened the world to various groups of vindictive individuals who stop at nothing to achieve their objective of destroying the target.

2013 September 29, Angela Ambitho, “Let’s also crush social media terrorists”, in The Standard, Kenya:

A blog dedicated to expressing intense disapproval or hatred of someone or something.


Instagrammer

The more likes a photo has, the higher the probability it will make it to the Popular page, at which point, the more probable it is that thousands of other Instagrammers will find it and follow that user.

2011, Joseph Linaschke, Getting the Most from Instagram, Peachpit Press, published 2011, →ISBN:

If the Photo Map feature is enabled, then Instagrammers can add their business locations to their image information as they are finalizing their pictures.

2013, Jason Miles, Instagram Power: Build Your Brand and Reach More Customers with the Power of Pictures, McGraw Hill Professional, published 2013, →ISBN, page 180:

At farmers' markets
the flower stalls draw big crowds
of Instagrammers.

2014, Peyton Price, Suburban Haiku: Poetic Dispatches from Behind the Picket Fence, Running Price, →ISBN, page 58:

(Internet) A user of the photo-sharing and social networking service Instagram.

(Internet, social media) A content creator or influencer of Instagram.


shelfie

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From shelf + -ie, by analogy with selfie.

Besides a feline closeup she’s placed on one shelf, and an opera mask on another, her shelfie shows a wonderful collection of books about music, including “The Rough Guide to Opera,” several biographies of Mozart and the history “Women Making Music.”

2013 December 18, Hector Tobar, “Hey everybody, let's 'shelfie!'”, in Los Angeles Times:

She's certainly observed the rate at which people are posting shelfies on Instagram.

2014 April 25, Dale Hrabi, “The Rise of the 'Shelfie': Instagram's Next Craze”, in The Wall Street Journal:

Some practitioners have tried to position the shelfie as "the intellectual's selfie," making it seem like some digital form of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.

2014 May 31, “Sharing your shelfie”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

From social media “shelfies” to Zoom backgrounds, to hyperinflated coffee-table tomes, books are everywhere nowadays, even—perhaps even especially—in the homes of people who never really read.

2024 February 9, Edwin Heathcote, “‘Bookshelf wealth’ is the oldest decorating trick in the book”, in Financial Times:

(social media, slang) A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.


bozo bin

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doxx

doxx (third-person singular simple present doxxes, present participle doxxing, simple past and past participle doxxed)

doxxes (present singular third-person)
doxxing (participle present)
doxxed (participle past)
doxxed (past)

A phonetic respelling of docs, which is a clipped form of documents.

The amorphous hacktivist collective known as “Anonymous” decided to make a spectacle of the situation by publishing personally identifiable information on – “doxxing” – Todd’s stalker.

2012 October 29, Danah Boyd, “Truth, Lies, and ‘Doxxing’: The Real Moral of the Gawker/Reddit Story”, in Wired:

In that frame of mind, the worst thing that can happen will always be online. Being doxxed or ridiculed, for example, outweighs the offline risks of wasted time, poor health, or arrest.

2013, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous, unnumbered page:

Anonymous said: shit, I hope no one doxxes her. She actually delivered. She seems like a kind girl.
Anonymous replied: dude get a grip she gave her first name, her physician's full name, and even the dormitory area she lives in she wants to be found.
Anonymous replied: She is new. Any girl who uses signs or writes names on her body is clearly new to camwhoring, so they really don't know what they're getting themselves into.

2014, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net, page 15:

“Evan doxxed everyone in Dramatis Personai. Those guys aren't just 'offline.'” Max said. “They're dead.”
PHYREWALL laughed.
“What's funny about that?” Max asked.
“He couldn't have doxxed everyone,” PHYREWALL said.
“He doxxed you, Nat,' Max said.

2014, E. C. Myers, The Silence of Six, unnumbered page:

In a Twitter Spaces discussion, Mr. Musk defended the decision to block the journalists. “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story,” he said, and then abruptly left the call.

2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, quoting Elon Musk, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet, slang, transitive) To publish personal information of (a person) without their consent.

起底

to publish personal information (of an individual) on the Internet

разглаша́ть конфиденциа́льную информа́цию

(Internet, slang, transitive) To reveal the operator of (an anonymous online account) without their consent.


rebloggable

en-adj

rebloggable (comparative more rebloggable, superlative most rebloggable)

more rebloggable (comparative)
most rebloggable (superlative)

Every blog post is potentially rebloggable via RSS technology.

2009, Curt Cloninger, Fresher Styles for Web Designers: More Eye Candy from the Underground, New Riders, →ISBN, page 117:

With its suspense-filled editing, rapid-fire dialogue, and moments you can totally make into rebloggable GIF sets to fit any range of emotions from “life sucks” to “I'm happy and it's confusing” to “life sucks,” […]

2013, Amanda Rodriguez, "Sherlock Inspires Mystery, Tumblr Erotica", The MQ (satirical newspaper of John Muir College, University of California, San Diego), Volume 19, Issue 6, 1 May 2013, page 10

Streetwear transcends downtown skate parks and emerges as instantly rebloggable on Tumblr dashboards everywhere thanks to celebrities with a knack for LOLs and labels.

2013 October, Cori Rosen, “Label Maker”, in Jerk, volume 12, number 1, Syracuse University, page 47:

Capable of, or suitable for, being reblogged.


pdf

(Internet, euphemistic) Alternative form of PDF file (“paedophile”)


IMSP

(Internet) Internet Message Support Protocol


RDFa

(software, Internet) Initialism of Resource Description Framework in Attributes.


shadowban

en-verb

shadowban (third-person singular simple present shadowbans, present participle shadowbanning, simple past and past participle shadowbanned)

shadowbans (present singular third-person)
shadowbanning (participle present)
shadowbanned (participle past)
shadowbanned (past)

On Wednesday a Vice News story reported that some senior Republican officials were not visible in automatic search results. Vice framed this as “shadow banning” without providing any evidence that it was deliberate.

2018 July 27, Jason Wilson, “What is 'shadow banning', and why did Trump tweet about it?”, in The Guardian:

Over the weekend, Sweeney tweeted that his account had been shadowbanned, meaning that its visibility had been deliberately reduced.

2022 December 14, Maya Yang, “Twitter suspends account that monitors flight paths of Elon Musk’s private jet”, in The Guardian:

You can also use external software designed to check for shadowbanning.

2023 August 24, Steve Kuhn, “How To Get Unshadowbanned on Twitter”, in ITGeared:

On Tuesday, Ghostwriter returned with a new track, titled “Whiplash,” this time using A.I. vocal filters to sound like the rappers Travis Scott and 21 Savage and deliver a message to the industry: “Me and Writer raise a toast,” the A.I. version of 21 Savage raps. “Trying to shadowban my boy/but you can’t kill a ghost.”

2023 May 9, Joe Coscarelli, “Ghostwriter Returns With an A.I. Travis Scott Song, and Industry Allies”, in The New York Times:

(transitive, Internet) To ban a user from a community without their knowledge, allowing them to continue reading and commenting, but rendering their contributions invisible or less visible to other users.

(transitive, Internet, of a search engine) To filter out results without the publisher's knowledge.


shadowban

Is there any basis for the idea that conservatives are being targeted for shadow bans? No – at least not based on what Vice purported to show.

By following the platform's guidelines and treating others with kindness, you'll not only avoid shadowbans but also build a strong and engaged community.

2024 June 28, “How to get "unshadowbanned" on Twitter!”, in Circleboom Blog:

(Internet) An instance of shadowbanning.


linkfest

(Internet, informal) A situation where there are many hyperlinks.


XMPP

(Internet) Initialism of extensible messaging and presence protocol: a communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML.


surface Web

(computing, Internet) The portion of the World Wide Web that is indexed by conventional search engines.


Deep Web

Attributed to Computer Scientist Michael K. Bergman, 2001.

In contrast, most data in the deep Web are structured data records stored in backend database systems and there are usually no hyperlinks among these data records. Due to the existence of extensive links among Web pages in the surface […]

2012, Eduard C. Dragut, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 3:

(computing, Internet) The portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.

(computing, Internet, proscribed) The Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).


kaomoji

From Japanese 顔(かお)文(も)字(じ) (kaomoji), from 顔(かお) (kao, “face”) + 文(も)字(じ) (moji, “letter, character”).

Coordinate term: emoji

While kaomoji and emoji express contexts or moods that cannot be conveyed through textual information alone, they are also used to compensate for the lack of personalization in electronic text that otherwise exists in hand-written form.

2010, Misa Matsuda, “Japanese mobile youth in the 2000s”, in Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson, Damien Spry, editors, Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia, Routledge, →ISBN, page 35:

For example, the typical emoticon for smile, :-), is the kaomoji ^--^.

2011, Francisco Yus, Cyberpragmatics: Internet-mediated Communication in Context, John Benjamins, published 2011, →ISBN, page 170:

Katsuno and Yano (2002) insisted that the development of kaomoji (emoticon in Japanese) online has important connections with Japanese popular culture.

2013, Hyisung C. Hwang, David Matsumoto, “Nonverbal Behaviours and Cross-Cultural Communication in the New Era”, in Farzad Sharifian, Maryam Jamarani, editors, Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era, Routledge, →ISBN, page 130:

According to Nishimura, kaomojis are so frequently used in Japan that they have been “codified” in dictionaries.

2017, Carmen Lee, “Linguistic diversity and language choice online”, in Multilingualism Online, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 31:

Going back to the kaomojis, note that, even in their highly abstract form, they are capable of displaying emotions. In order of display, the kaomojis show happiness, indifference, love, dissatisfaction, and anger.

2018, Xuanyi Chew, “Basic Facial Detection”, in Go Machine Learning Projects: Eight Projects Demonstrating End-to-End Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics Applications in Go, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 276:

Kaomojis are not used much in Western culture, but they are like emoticons except they can be read front-on and are from a fuller set of keyboard characters.

2019, Leo Palladino, Martin Green, Karen Roemuss, “Communication and working effectively in the industry”, in Professional Hairdressing and Barbering, Australian and New Zealand 2nd edition, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 170:

A text-based Japanese emoticon, distinct from a Western emoticon in that it is not rotated sideways, and often includes a larger variety of characters (originally from Shift JIS, now including Unicode).


cyberagent

An agent operating on the Internet or in cyberspace.


TIAS

(Internet, text messaging) Initialism of try it and see.


Twibel

The most notorious Twitter libel case, sometimes called Twibel cases, involved rocker Courtney Love.

2013, Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno, Susan Dente Ross, The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, page 154:

Twitter, for example, has a structure (maximum 140 characters) that encourage^([sic]) such [quick, thoughtless] statements, leading to “twibel” actions.

2015, Serap Kurbanoglu, Sonja Spiranec, Esther Grassian, Information Literacy, page 105:

(informal, neologism) libel in the form of postings on the Twitter microblogging service


SERP

Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.

2011, Jaroslav Pokorny, Vaclav Repa, Karel Richta, Wita Wojtkowski, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:

General search text ads are sold by general search engines, typically placed just above or below the organic search results on a SERP, and resemble the organic results that appear on a general search engine’s SERP, with a subtle notation that they are “ads” or “sponsored.”

2020 October 20, US v. Google Complaint:

(Internet) Initialism of search engine results page.


mainspace

en-noun

mainspace (countable and uncountable, plural mainspaces)

In the tutorial […] you see how to move your article from your personal space (the draft) to mainspace, where actual articles reside.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 64:

This groups together a majority of the site's content. There is no namespace prefix for the mainspace.

2010, Jeff Orlof, Mizanur Rahman, MediaWiki 1.1 Beginner's Guide:

(Internet) The primary namespace of a wiki, excluding secondary content such as discussion pages.


rubber-band

en-verb

rubber-band (third-person singular simple present rubber-bands, present participle rubber-banding, simple past and past participle rubber-banded)

rubber-bands (present singular third-person)
rubber-banding (participle present)
rubber-banded (participle past)
rubber-banded (past)

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(Internet video games) To move to a previous position due to network lag, as if being held back by a rubber band.


Semantic Web

Twine is based on technologies created for the developing semantic Web - foreseen as a smarter Web where machines may someday be able to process the meaning of words and phrases in documents and even routinely answer direct questions.

2008 February 1, Anne Eisenberg, “Twine ties things together on Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet) A proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.


LRT

light rail transit
light rail transit#English

LRT: This is the art I was talking about earlier but was having trouble finding.


resub

resub (third-person singular simple present resubs, present participle resubbing, simple past and past participle resubbed)

resubs (present singular third-person)
resubbing (participle present)
resubbed (participle past)
resubbed (past)


tweetstorm

“The company sent a flood of tweets—actually, we ought to call it what it was, an epically disastrous tweetstorm—aimed squarely at journalist Nancy Jo Sales insisting that the app is about so much more than hooking up.”

2015 August 11, Julia Greenberg, “Tinder completely freaked out on Twitter”, in Wired:

(Internet) A series of tweets posted on the Twitter microblogging service in rapid succession.

(Internet) A storm of controversy arising from tweets posted on Twitter.


cybernat

Clipping of cybernationalist as a play on cybernaut, said to have been coined by British politician George Foulkes, Baron Foulkes of Cumnock (born 1942): see the 5 July 2012 quotation.

He [Iain Gray] added: “Back in May I asked Alex Salmond to get a grip of these ‘cyber nats’ bloggers. At the time they were spreading rumours about me and other politicians as well. I think Alex Salmond has to come to parliament, apologise, and explain just exactly what has gone on.”

2009 November 29, “Parties Demand Salmond Holds Blog Smear Inquiry”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2009-12-02:

The time could not be more crucial, with the referendum on Scottish independence only two years away, and fears emerging that the war of words between so-called ‘cybernats’ and ‘cyberbrits’ could distort or even stifle mainstream political discourse. Labour peer Lord Foulkes claims crediting for coining the term cybernat to describe Nationalists and supporters of independence who conduct rhetorical guerrilla warfare on Twitter, Facebook and the comment threads of newspaper websites. Rather than initiating discussions about policy or ideas, cybernats demonise those opposed to the SNP and independence and dismiss them as, inter alia, cowardly, unpatriotic, and even traitorous.

2012 July 5, “Cybernats and Cyberbrits: How Do They Affect Mainstream Political Debate?: Scotland Tonight Discusses the Phenomenon of Abusive Online Comments and Attacks”, in STV, archived from the original on 2016-10-27:

Currently, he [Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan] openly presents himself as a 'vauntie cybernat, former ambassador, and human rights activist', keeping him in sync with the alternative diplomatic culture he always practised, though he now freely engages in the everyday ambassadorship he once struggled to legitimate among his peers.

2015, Jason Dittmer, Fiona McConnell, editors, Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics: Translations, Spaces and Alternatives (Routledge New Diplomacy Studies), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

The much-vaunted phenomenon of the "cybernat", spraying online vitriol from a dingy bedroom, does indubitably exist, but so does its exact equivalent on the opposite side.

2016, Mike Parker, “Caledonia Dreaming: September – December 2014”, in The Greasy Poll: Diary of a Controversial Election, Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales: Y Lolfa, →ISBN:

(British, informal) A Scottish nationalist who takes part in Internet activism.


subtweet

But it was also a subtweet, addressed to one person but meant for someone else entirely.

2014, Daleen Berry, Geoffrey Fuller, The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese:

Curt texts, unanswered emails, Facebook statuses declaring “someone” to be an idiot, the notorious subtweet; if you can communicate with it, people can be passive aggressive with it.

2015 February 19, Dean Burnett, “OK, don't read this article about passive-aggressive behaviour. Honestly, it's fine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website.

2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue:

(social media) A tweet that refers to another user without tagging their name in the message, so that the user being talked about is not automatically notified.

(by extension) Any social media post of this type, regardless of which service it is posted on.


subtweet

subtweet (third-person singular simple present subtweets, present participle subtweeting, simple past and past participle subtweeted)

subtweets (present singular third-person)
subtweeting (participle present)
subtweeted (participle past)
subtweeted (past)

Coordinate term: vaguebook

More often than not, they employed this term when referencing various teen dramas that occurred between friends and classmates that required insider knowledge to decode. In other words, teens subtweet to talk behind someone else's back.

2014, danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69)

A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(social media) To post a message of this kind.


tweetosphere

From tweet (“a Twitter post”) + -o- + -sphere.

affix

(Internet) The totality of users and messages on the Twitter microblogging service.


Twittersphere

In news stories that had the Twittersphere absolutely buzzing (there's no better word for it), two of America's largest casual restaurant brands—Applebee's and Olive Garden—managed, in separate incidents, to serve alcoholic beverages to a fifteen-month-old and a two-year-old, respectively (alcoholic margarita mix in a sippy cup to the fifteen-month-old; sangria to the two-year-old), between late March and early April 2011.

2012, Micah Solomon, High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce, AMACOM, published 2012, →ISBN, page 95:

Following Benedict's departure, his successor, Francis, surged into the Twittersphere, sending several tweets weekly translated into nine different languages, even though he has admitted never having written anything but longhand and never having gotten used to writing on a computer.

2015, David Willey, The Promise of Francis: The Man, the Pope, and the Challenge of Change, Gallery Books, published 2015, →ISBN:

I also expect their followers will be quick to pick up the activist causes, and spread these "good causes" widely across the Twittersphere, […]

2016, P. David Marshall, Sean Redmond, A Companion to Celebrity, Wiley Blackwell, published 2016, →ISBN, page 243:


trollage

/ˈtɹəʊlɪd͡ʒ/

(Internet, informal) trolling (making inflammatory posts or comments to annoy others on the Internet)


routing leak

(Internet) The situation where the internal routing table of a network provider is broadcast externally to peered networks via Border Gateway Protocol (usually caused by an error in a boundary router), resulting in incorrectly routed internet traffic for external networks which accept the new routing instruction into their own routing tables.


MTE

(Internet, text messaging) My thoughts exactly: an expression of agreement.


webvertising

(Internet, dated) advertising on the World Wide Web


growlf

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(Internet, furry fandom) Expressing mild aggression or irritation.


e-tutoring

tutoring via electronic media, especially the Internet


e-mailbox

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MFW

Overseas Filipino workers, known as O.F.W.s, are also returning to the country to earn crypto as M.F.W.s, or metaverse Filipino workers.

2024 March 18, Eli Tan, Jes Aznar, “What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Metaverse Filipino Worker
Metaverse Filipino Worker#English

(Philippines, neologism) Initialism of Metaverse Filipino Worker.


keyboard warrior

en-noun

keyboard warrior (plural keyboard warriors)

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Others are newer converts who have only a vague idea how it all connects. There are law-abiding keyboard warriors as well as violent, unhinged radicals.

2021 January 17, Kevin Roose, “A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal, derogatory) A person who behaves aggressively or in an inflammatory manner in online textbased discussion media, but does not behave similarly in real life, potentially due to cowardice, introversion or shyness.


wikiquette

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
English etiquetteblend.
English wikiquette
Blend of wiki + etiquette

etymon

(Internet) The etiquette dictating how one should behave when working on a wiki.


autokick

en-verb

autokick (third-person singular simple present autokicks, present participle autokicking, simple past and past participle autokicked)

autokicks (present singular third-person)
autokicking (participle present)
autokicked (participle past)
autokicked (past)

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(Internet, IRC, transitive) To kick (a user) from an IRC channel automatically.


Trololo

Onomatopoeia of how Eduard Khil vocalized "Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой (Ja očenʹ rad, vedʹ ja, nakonec, vozvraščajusʹ domoj)".

(Internet, neologism, informal) Eduard Khil's vocalized recording of the song "Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой (Ja očenʹ rad, vedʹ ja, nakonec, vozvraščajusʹ domoj)" and its accompanying music video, which has risen into a meme.


memester

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He introduces such colorful and potentially significant groups as the Immediast Underground, Paper Tiger TV, and the merry 'memesters' who have taken the media revolution to the neurons of the worldbrain.

1996, Douglas Rushkoff, quoted on the praise page, in Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture, Ballantine Books (1996; originally published 1995), unnumbered page

The conflict between the memesters and the creators of the source material ended with the creators throwing up their hands in defeat. It was simply impossible for YouTube to keep the stuff down.

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press, →ISBN:

Not all these photo pranks are as simple as planking: In stocking, memesters choose a banal stock photo and try to re-create it as faithfully as possible.

2011 October 30, Erin McKean, “Let’s go owling!”, in The Boston Globe:

A person who creates or enjoys memes, especially Internet ones.


podcatch

podcatch (third-person singular simple present podcatches, present participle podcatching, simple past and past participle podcatched)

podcatches (present singular third-person)
podcatching (participle present)
podcatched (participle past)
podcatched (past)

(rare, Internet) To download and listen to a podcast.


Pit of Voles

pit + of + voles, from the site's reputation in fandom as being filled with amateurish and poorly-written stories.

[…] I have comparatively little spare time compared to what I'd like, and what fanfiction reading I've been doing has tended to be in the less ugly depths of the Pit of VOles.^([sic])

2009 January 4, The Wanderer [username], “Re: AFSM Purpose? (was Re: Tokyo Trip Photos)”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

This was my utter last choice as a posting avenue, because it's such an incredible pain in the butt to post here, compared to anywhere else, whether it's LJ, my website, a messageboard or even the Pit of Voles.

2009 March 3, KKGlinka [username], “Re: Not Quite Off-Topic: ASC and the ASC Awards”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

And in the ultimate case of inception-ism, the Pit of Voles is already up to 24 submissions of _Fangirl_ fanfic. Haven't checked Archive of Our Own yet... :-P

2014 January 21, Chrysti Cat, “Re: FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

(fandom slang, derogatory) The online fan fiction archive FanFiction.net.


warbot

A warbot is designed for use against other users or against IRC itself. Bots meant to do harm are one reason why many servers have banned their presence.

1995, William J. Shefski, Interactive Internet: The Insider's Guide to MUDs, MOOs and IRC:

(Internet) A malicious bot (automated user) designed to disrupt other users' activity.


countertroll

(Internet) Someone who trolls in response to an original troll.


countertroll

countertroll (third-person singular simple present countertrolls, present participle countertrolling, simple past and past participle countertrolled)

countertrolls (present singular third-person)
countertrolling (participle present)
countertrolled (participle past)
countertrolled (past)

(Internet) To troll in response to an original troll.


dot-coma

The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading.

1999 July 31, Helen Jung, “Two Strikes For Net Ipos -- Tech Investors Can't Count On A Home Run”, in The Seattle Times:

Clearly, eSpeed's connection to Cantor is a unique insurance policy, assuring it won't end up in a dot-coma.

2001, Business Week, numbers 3744-3750, page 360:

And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.

2002 May 12, “Out Of The Dot-Coma”, in Newsweek:

(slang) The collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble.


dot-commiserate

dot-commiserate (third-person singular simple present dot-commiserates, present participle dot-commiserating, simple past and past participle dot-commiserated)

dot-commiserates (present singular third-person)
dot-commiserating (participle present)
dot-commiserated (participle past)
dot-commiserated (past)

An Internet marketing firm called Thehiredguns.com sponsors pink-slip parties where casualties can get together and "dot-commiserate."

2000 August 20, Abby Ellin, “If at First You Don't Succeed, Celebrate!”, in The New York Times:

Failure became a buzz word when the dotcom bubble burst in the late Nineties. Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more). The casualties got together and "dot-commiserated".

2003 July 29, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, “Rock bottom? We're on a high”, in The Telegraph:

(The original, ancestral pink slip parties date to 1910, but became known to modern-day workers in the late 1990s, when downsized tech sector employees got together to dot-commiserate.)

2009 April 1, Gendy Alimurung, “Pink Slip Parties in L.A.: Laid Off but Not Out”, in LA Weekly:

(slang, historical) To seek solace with other people left jobless by the dot-com bubble collapse.


dot-carnage

The dot-carnage extends even to Internet companies still in business.

2002 December 29, John Moran, “Hot sales, sour stocks and other technology highlights of 2002”, in The Spokesman-Review:

Given the dot-carnage of the past few years, it's only natural that runs like those, when connected to companies associated with the Net, would leave investors pondering the dreaded B word: bubble.

2003 September 1, Yuval Rosenberg, “E-Stocks Rise Again After a stomach-turning descent, Internet stocks have come racing back--this time with profits. We've found three that can go higher.”, in Fortune:

Mika Salmi's atomfilms.com survived the dot-carnage and is thriving on broadband

2006, Business Week, numbers 3974-3981, page 115:

(slang) The results of the dot-com bubble collapse, which included the closure of many Internet-based businesses, and significant financial losses for others.


tweetaholic

From tweet (“an entry posted on Twitter”) + -aholic.

suffix

You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still four minutes long ... I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete though anymore. And I was a tweetaholic.

2011, John Mayer, quoted in Rena Bivens, Digital Currents: How Technology and the Public are Shaping TV News, University of Toronto Press (2014), page 17

I know, not everyone is a tweetaholic like me, and not everyone can devote a good chunk of their day to Twitter.

2012, Scott Stretten, chapter 16, in UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging, Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:

The whole group admits to being tweetaholics, but Louis says that he is the one who is following the most 1D fans.

2012, Anne Raso, One Direction, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:

(slang) A heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service; a person addicted to tweeting.


web color

(Internet) Any color, typically specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format, that can be displayed on a web page


pagejacking

(Internet) The use of deception to redirect a user's web browser from one web page to another.


spamouflage

This message generated enormous curiosity and speculation on the web. Recipients didn't know what to make of it. Was it a bizarre hoax or joke? A deviously sophisticated form of spamouflage designed to trick them into buying something?

2010, Alex Boese, Hippo Eats Dwarf, page 123:

(Internet) Attempts to disguise spam as legitimate messages.


Netflix

en-verb

Netflix (third-person singular simple present Netflixes, present participle Netflixing, simple past and past participle Netflixed)

Netflixes (present singular third-person)
Netflixing (participle present)
Netflixed (participle past)
Netflixed (past)

From the company name Netflix, founded in 1997, probably from Net (“the Internet”) + flicks (“films, movies”).

compound

We started with Buffy, which had us completely sucked in by the time Xander's buddies ate Principle Flutie. Then, after Netflixing Buffy all the way to the end, we started on Angel.

2007, Lani Diane Rich, “Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal”, in Jane Espenson, editor, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe, BenBella Books, →ISBN, 108:

I'm Netflixing the series now (for their fish-faced, airplane-launched Lunar Module shuttle, alas a bit beyond reality, even if you discount the airplane doing Harrier Jump Jet takeoffs as mere technological bravura).

2009 November 25, Jack Bohn, “Re: "UFO" movie to star Joshua Jackson”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

I was surprised to see Jeffrey Tambor in this movie, as I've only recently discovered him when I Netflixed Arrested Development and the Larry Sanders show.

2014 July 13, really real [username], “...And Justice for All (1979)”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet, informal) To watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix.

netflixer

to watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix


webhook

From web + hook, coined by Jeff Lindsay in 2007 from the computer programming term hook.

Webhooks are the most widely used approach for solving the event delivery challenge (see section 1.2.3) and realizing events in combination with REST APIs.

2017, Matthias Biehl, Webhooks – Events for RESTful APIs, API-University Press, →ISBN, page 35:

(Internet) A method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web application or a web page using custom callbacks, usually triggered by some external event.


pointcast

en-verb

pointcast (third-person singular simple present pointcasts, present participle pointcasting, simple past and past participle pointcasted or pointcast)

pointcasts (present singular third-person)
pointcasting (participle present)
pointcasted (participle past)
pointcasted (past)
pointcast (participle past)
pointcast (past)

Google asserts that if the broadcast server can itself pointcast to receivers, then there is no need for receivers to filter broadcasts.

2015, Judge Rodney Gilstrap, Claim Construction Order, SimpleAir, Inc. v. Google Inc.:

(Internet) To transmit targeted information to a single person


textpost

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While links, textposts, and videos were more often direct posts than reshares, there were still sizable portions of links and videos that were reshared content.

2012, Jennifer M. Young, "Political Conversations on Facebook: An Exploration of Practices", thesis submitted to George University, page 90

Conceptually, linguistically, Tumblr textpost discourse doesn't translate well to outside life - you don't, or at least didn't, win friends with Meyer-Briggs personality scores, Harry Potter headcanon, or soft grunge.

2014, Zoe Kilbourn, "PSA, UWU: Tumblr, Gender, and Gaga", Pelican (University of Western Australia), Volume 85, Edition 6, circa September 2014, page 9

She is looking for a way to delete Chatter Posts (only textposts), and she also wants to define a date (to delete all textposts created before this date).

2014, Rakesh Gupta, Learning Salesforce Visual Workflow, Packt Publishing, published 2015, →ISBN, page 74:

A post on a social media platform consisting largely or entirely of text.


subreddit

They wanted to give voice to their feeling, in one moderator’s words, that the company’s bosses ‘‘do not respect the work that is put in by the thousands of unpaid volunteers who maintain the communities of the 9,656 active subreddits,’’ as the individual forums are called.

2015 July 21, Adrian Chen, “When the Internet’s ‘Moderators’ Are Anything But”, in New York Times:

We measure the similarity between entire subreddits both in terms of user similarity and topical similarity.

2015, Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield, Lillian Lee, David Mimno, “What do Democrats do in their Spare Time? Latent Interest Detection in Multi-Community Networks”, in arXiv:

(Internet) Any of the subforums, generally intended for discussion of a specific topic, on the Reddit web site.


WhatsApp

Blend of what's up + app, coined as a trademark.

Like many people, in the pandemic, my life digitized. My work shifted online; my friendships retreated onto FaceTime and WhatsApp; I used a dating app for the first time; I started doing online yoga.

2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:

An instant messaging service founded in 2009 and acquired by Facebook in 2014.


blogspeak

Bloggers with a science background, like bloggers on most other topics, often demonstrate open scorn for the mainstream media (MSM in blogspeak).

2009 March 19, Geoff Brumfiel, “Science journalism: Supplanting the old media?”, in Nature, volume 458, number 7236, →DOI, page 276:

(informal, blogging) The variety of language used in blogs.


Dark Web

“Silk Road” was an underground website active on the Dark Web.

(Internet) The portion of the Deep Web hosted on darknets (“restricted networks”).


webtool

We took advantage of our large amount of data and on machine learning to set-up ^([sic]) a fast webtool combining all existing taxonomies including the newly proposed consensual “expert” one.

2015 July 9, “Genomics and Machine Learning for Taxonomy Consensus: The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Paradigm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(computing, Internet) Any software tool that operates over the Internet


Eternal September

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Before the Internet became mainstream in the mid-1990s, Usenet was largely restricted to colleges and universities, meaning that September (the start of the academic year) represented the largest annual influx of new users. Around 1993, commercial ISPs began offering Usenet access to their userbases, leading to a large amount of new posters with little idea of netiquette joining year-round. From the perspective of experienced Usenet users, the influx of new users in September 1993 never ended.

1994 February 9, John William Chambless, “The Eternal September”, in alt.flame (Usenet):

I've only been here since the start of the Eternal September, but I was on at the beginning of that whole mess with the Highs.

1994 April 17, Ziegler, “HERO: Star Wars in 1995”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

"September 1993 will go down in net history as the September that never ended," Dave Fischer wrote on the world's most popular social network at the time. That post spawned the idea of the "Eternal September," a phenomenon that happens when an internet community is forced to deal with a neverending influx of new people.

2015 September 30, Jason Koebler, “It's September, Forever”, in Vice:

(Internet slang, historical) A period beginning around 1993, in which large amounts of new users were joining Usenet.


Useneter

Well, thanks to a USEneter's comment, I verified that these 2 DAs do NOT work with Finder 4.1, but DO operate once you are in an application run from that Finder.

1985 June 21, Jeff Harrow, “Scientific/Financial Calculator Desk Accessories...”, in net.micro.mac (Usenet):


screenland

At times, different symbolic modes were intertwined. Labbo used the metaphor of "screenland" to describe the context of the children's actions with the computer. She identified three different stances: playing in screenland, art in screenland, and writing in screenland.

2000, Maureen Patricia Carroll, Whitecaps on the Keyboard, page 20:

Cyberspace, as accessed through a computer screen.


https

(Internet, in addresses) Alternative letter-case form of HTTPS


wiktionary

However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet

2011, Zygmunt Vetulani, Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science:

PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards

2011, Nikolas Coupland, The Handbook of Language and Globalization:

This lower bound is logically determined – a wiktionary with fewer entries could never provide a full IDS list – and not meant to be realistic. We do not know how big a wiktionary has to be in order to provide, say, 75% of an IDS list, but it is likely that several thousands of entries are required for this.

2013, Lars Borin, Anju Saxena, Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, page 297:

Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary.


blogspam

(Internet) promotional material posted to a weblog, often one specifically created for the purpose


retweetability

Nevertheless, few studies found that retweetability is positively associated with the number of followers, number of followees, the age of the account, and those users belonging to several groups who act as brokers.

2015 August 20, “Testing Propositions Derived from Twitter Studies: Generalization and Replication in Computational Social Science”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

The quality or degree of being retweetable.


retweetable

en-adj

retweetable (comparative more retweetable, superlative most retweetable)

more retweetable (comparative)
most retweetable (superlative)

The most retweetable word in my data set was the word you. Twitter users want to hear you talk about them, not yourself.

2014, Neal Schaffer, Lon Safko, Jeff Korhan, Social Marketing Digital Book Set:


necro-bump

en-verb

necro-bump (third-person singular simple present necro-bumps, present participle necro-bumping, simple past and past participle necro-bumped)

necro-bumps (present singular third-person)
necro-bumping (participle present)
necro-bumped (participle past)
necro-bumped (past)

(Internet, transitive) To add a new message to a long-dormant conversation.


cryptoviral extortion

(cryptography, computer security, Internet) A data kidnapping attack studied in the field of cryptovirology, in which malware encrypts user data and asks for payment in exchange for the decryption key.


unspammed

en-adj

unspammed (comparative more unspammed, superlative most unspammed)

more unspammed (comparative)
most unspammed (superlative)

My mailbox has remained unspammed for years thanks to antispam filters.


ignore all rules

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(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) It is acceptable to break rules in situations where it is beneficial not to follow them.


adblocker

From ad (“short for advert or advertisement”) + blocker.

compound

(Internet) A piece of software that removes advertising elements from a web page.

adblocker

mainostenesto (informally "ad-blocker", properly "ad-blocking")


neknomination

From neck (“to drink very quickly”) + nomination. Originated in Australia and gained popularity on social media.

The controversial Neknomination craze has reportedly led to the death of another young British man, after a rugby player mixed two pints of gin with teabags and said to the camera: “This is how you drink.”

2014 February 16, Adam Withnall, “Neknomination: Craze 'claims fifth victim' as young man found dead after downing two pints of gin”, in Belfast Telegraph:

Ontario Provincial Police laid charges against two young men on Thursday after a ‘neknomination’ video surfaced on social media.

2014 February 27, Paul Clarke, “OPP charge two youth after neknomination video surfaces”, in Toronto Star:

She has lipstick on her chin, a ladder in her tights and looks as though she's spent the afternoon creating Neknomination videos.

2015, Jane Costello, The Love Shack, Simon & Schuster (2015), unnumbered pages, published 23 April 2015

(slang) An online drinking game, typically involving a person uploading a video of themselves drinking a pint of an alcoholic beverage (most commonly beer) in one gulp, then nominating two or more others to do the same.


Xoogler

Older Googlers with families tend to like it less, because "everybody, even young mums, works seven days a week." Another Xoogler, who held a senior position, says that by trying to create a "Utopia" of untrammelled creativity, Google ended up with "dystopia".

2007, The Economist, volume 384, page 58:

As a search marketer, Xoogler (ex-Googler), and now web consultant, I have seen both sides of the “Google fence,” and that has been fascinating.

2012, Brian Clifton, Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, page 205:

(informal) A former employee of the Google corporation.


chatgroup

electronic discourse The kind of language used in computer-mediated communication, especially as found in dialogue situations such as email, chatgroups, or texting exchanges.

2008, David Crystal, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, page iii:

(Internet) An online community allowing users to take part in text-based conversations.


Noogler

TEMs can view the resume and interview scores of a Noogler and place a "bid" on the allocation. In heavy hiring seasons, there are generally multiple candidates to be allocated to multiple projects. Competing bids are the norm […]

2012, James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo, How Google Tests Software, page 190:

As an experiment, we added a fifteen-minute segment to Noogler orientation for some people that explained the benefits of being proactive, provided five specific actions Nooglers could take to find the things they needed, and reiterated how this behavior fits with Google’s entrepreneurial mindset:[…]

2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 298:

(informal) A new employee of the Google corporation.


bamf

Used as a teleportation sound effect in X-Men comics. Presumably imitative; compare bam, poof, etc.

(Internet) Signalling a user's disappearance from a discussion, chat room, etc.


trollistically

en-adv

trollistically (comparative more trollistically, superlative most trollistically)

more trollistically (comparative)
most trollistically (superlative)

I hope that you didn't take my last tweet trollistically.

(Internet, humorous, rare) in a trollistic fashion; as if done in a trollistic fashion


BookTuber

Blend of book + YouTuber, equivalent to book + -Tuber.

And last but certainly not least, to all the online book geeks (booktubers, tweeps, and bloggers), my sincere gratitude, as always, for your support and encouragement!

2012, "Acknowledgements," in Daniel Marks, Velveteen, Delacorte Press (2012), page 450

Thank you to the readers, librarians, booksellers, BookTubers, and bloggers who celebrate stories all over the world.

2015, "Acknowledgements," in Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows, Henry Holt and Company (2015), page 464

Booksandquills: Sanne Vliegenthart (yes, that is her actual name) is also a long-time BookTuber.

2015 September, Helga Pearson, “Book Tube: Video Killed the Blog Star”, in Authors Magazine, page 17:

(Internet) A YouTube videoblogger who reviews or discusses books.

booktuber

YouTuber personality who reviews or discusses books


trollface

Compound of troll (“person who provokes others for personal amusement or to cause disruption”) + face.

com+

Geek revelers. This is a very rare antagonism. Maybe it doesn't even exist. But if it exists, Gigablog leaves here a fantasy tip. Carnatroll is a mask with the face of the most famous meme on the internet, the Trollface.

2011 February 28, “‘Troll Face’ mask promises to delight geek partygoers”, in Uol News, Rodrigo Vitulli:

Thanks to the Trollface meme, those with a secret affinity for the hilarious ways of trolling now have a figure to worship.

2011 March 24, “Land of a million memes”, in The Gateway, volume 101, number 42, University of Alberta, page 18:

People took trollface and pasted it into other comics, whenever a character was either being a pest or generally annoying people.

2012, Sean Rockey & Alexander Bevier, "Memes", The Current (Green River Community College), Volume 46, Issue 10, 7 May 2012, page 9

The trollface is a visual representation of what someone might look like when engaging in trolling.

2013, Roger Whitson, Jason Whittaker, William Blake and the Digital Humanities: Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media, Routledge, →ISBN, page 111:

(Internet slang) An illustration of a face with a cartoonishly wide, maniacal grin (from a comic drawn by Carlos Ramirez and originally posted on the 4chan community), typically featured in image macros to convey trolling, mockery, or humorous intent.


internetted

From internet + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).

suffix

And by September of next year, all of my high schools will be fully wired and fully "Internetted" in virtually every single classroom.

2001 March 21, Paul Vallas (witness), “Statement of Paul Vallas, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Public Schools”, in President’s Tax Relief Proposals: Tax Proposals Affecting Individuals: Hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session […] (serial no. 107-6), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 113:

[A]s one of the wealthiest, most heavily ‘internetted’ countries in the world, the United States too has tremendous inequalities.

2004, Crispin Thurlow, Laura Lengel, Alice Tomic, “Online Ethics and International Inequities”, in Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the Internet, London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, strand 2 (Critique: Central Issues), page 87:

[T]he necessity to develop advanced digital literacies so we could surf among the ever-increasing waves of information that were entering our "internetted" lives.

2015, Sheri R. Parris, Kathy Headley, “Introduction”, in Sheri R. Parris, Kathy Headley, editors, Comprehension Instruction: Research-based Best Practices, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Guilford Press, →ISBN, page 1:

(specifically, Internet) Connected to, or able to access, the Internet.

internetiin yhdistetty

connected to, or able to access, the Internet


XDCC

(Internet) Abbreviation of extended DCC: a file sharing method using IRC, allowing for larger files than DCC.


Googlephone

Russian: гуглофо́н (guglofón)

It will be at least a year or two before Android-based smartphones (Googlephones?) reach any real-world consumers, but when they do, Google will probably offer serious competition to Microsoft, Symbian, and the others.

2008, John Ross, The Book of Wireless, page 258:

Will MySpace do a deal with Google to put social networking and music inside the new GooglePhone?

2008, Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom, page 243:

Among them are the emergence of 3D browsing and the merging of virtual worlds with reality; the use of smartphones and Googlephones; standardized web connectivity in new televisions with 3D technology; spread of e-readers; […]

2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 91:

(informal) Any mobile phone that runs the Android operating system.


spoopy

en-adj

spoopy (comparative more spoopy, superlative most spoopy)

more spoopy (comparative)
most spoopy (superlative)

A photograph of a Halloween sign with the misspelled word “spoopy” (for “spooky”), taken in 2009 and originally uploaded to Flickr, was reposted on Tumblr in 2011, upon which the word become an Internet meme and developed its current sense.

To get into the spoopy spirit, you will exclusively listen to the “Spooky Scary Skeletons” trap remix on repeat from now until Halloween.

2016 October 27, Derek Baker, “Your future is foretold in these spooky horror-scopes”, in The Guantlet, page 17:

It's spoopy season — a time for pumpkin carving, trick or treating and “Hocus Pocus” reruns.

2018 October 24, Amelia Calautti, “Get goosebumps with 'Netflix and Chills'”, in The Rice Thresher, page 8:

Unfortunately, tricks, treats and spoopy shenanigans aren't the only things escalating in the runup to Halloween.

2018 October 29, Sara Serrano, “Where have all the cats gone?”, in The Collegian, page 14:

(Internet slang) Calling upon horror tropes and concepts in cute, nonthreatening or comical ways.


RTFFAQ

(Internet) Initialism of read the fucking FAQ.


reup

en-verb

reup (third-person singular simple present reups, present participle reupping, simple past and past participle reupped)

reups (present singular third-person)
reupping (participle present)
reupped (participle past)
reupped (past)

We’d reupped our lease with the whitegirl who managed the place a month earlier—she wore suits now—and, afterward, Ben had a look on his face.

2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 206:

(rare except Internet) Alternative form of re-up.


blogshop

We have previously suggested that the Blogshop phenomenon emerged through the symbiotic relationship of technology adaptation and design with specific geographic conditions.

2010, Hannakaisa Isomäki, Samuli Pekkola, Reframing Humans in Information Systems Development, →ISBN, page 245:

Finally, another form of reproducing stereotypes and dominating feminine identities is blogshops, online sites in which young women model and sell apparel via social media that have exploded in many countries.

2013, Kerric Harvey, Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, →ISBN, page 570:

The blogshop model, 18, makes up for her petite 1.65m frame with her sharp features and megawatt smile.

2012 December 12, Chow Hui Min, “Journey of a Blogshop Model”, in Temasek Polytechnic Campus newspaper: Stop Press, retrieved 2015-10-31:

(Singapore) A blog that functions as a retail portal.


rustle someone's jimmies

rustle someone's jimmies (third-person singular simple present rustles someone's jimmies, present participle rustling someone's jimmies, simple past and past participle rustled someone's jimmies)

rustles someone's jimmies (present singular third-person)
rustling someone's jimmies (participle present)
rustled someone's jimmies (participle past)
rustled someone's jimmies (past)

First attested in 2009 (see Citations:rustle someone's jimmies).

It's not that my wide feet are so irresistibly sexy that no man could keep his hands off them — trust me, they're not — but there's just something about feet that really rustles his jimmies.

2014 March 5, Hamarita Jones, “Fetishes, kinks, and paraphilias, oh my!”, in The Cascade, University of the Fraser Valley, page 13:

Should I try find love with someone who really rustles my jimmies?

2014, "True love Tracey", letter to "Letters To The Ductus Doctor", Ductus (University of Newcastle), Edition 2 (2014), page 37

And what, I'm sure you're asking, rustles the jimmies of a highly discerning [turtle] bachelor such as myself? I'm looking for a delectable woman who is interested in long, painfully slow walks on the beach, being dazzled by my utterly stunning shell, and mercilessly abandoning any children of our union to be devoured by birds while they desperately try to scramble from land to the water immediately after hatching.

2017 February, The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 3:

(Internet slang) To interest or excite sexually or romantically.


postgasm

(Internet, slang) A pleasurable reaction to a post, such as on a forum or message board.


wikitorial

Blend of wiki + editorial, coined by the Los Angeles Times to describe an experiment of this kind that they attempted in 2005.

(Internet) An editorial that can be edited by users in the manner of a wiki.


spimming

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:


spearphisher

From spear + phisher, modeled on spearfisher.

(computing, Internet) One who engages in spearphishing.


social notworking

Blend of social networking + not working

blend

(Internet, humorous) The use of social networking web sites in the workplace, when one is supposed to be productively working.


pharmer

(Internet) One who engages in pharming (fraudulent redirection of Internet traffic).


WinJS

Equivalent to Win (shortening of Windows) + JS (shortening of JavaScript).

compound

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Windows</i>

shortening of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">JavaScript</i>

(computing) Initialism of Windows Library for JavaScript (an open source JavaScript library developed by Microsoft)


listsib

And there's another listsib who is in the hospital and needs our support, and I've been doing some things for her, too.

1999 December 19, DawnC, “Re: Priorities”, in alt.tv.sentinel (Usenet):

I had a listsib from the UK mail me a couple bottles once to try and I really loved it a lot.

2002 February 17, Debbie Cusick, “Re: Olive Oil Mayonnaise”, in alt.support.diet.low-carb (Usenet):

After this hallowed happening, we met all, ALL the listsibs present, it was like a party, meeting for the first time wonderous [sic] humans in the flesh... […]

2005, anonymous e-mail, quoted in Heidi Campbell, Exploring Religious Community Online: We Are One in the Network, Peter Lang (2005), page 144

(Internet) A fellow member of a listserv or newsgroup.


listmom

From list + mom, since a mother may be seen as the organising or moderating influence in a household.

"For a while, some of the most animated discussions were not about Mac versus Windows, but Mac OS 9 versus Mac OS X," said listmom Bruce Giles.

2004, Leander Kahney, The Cult of Mac, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 91:

Barbara the listmom, thank you for being patient with me while I've been too busy to post, […]

2005, Iris Schreier, Modular Knits: New Techniques for Today's Knitters, Lark Books, →ISBN, page 126:

She currently serves as “listmom” on ACOR.org's colon cancer discussion list […]

2012, The Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence: Workshop Summary, The National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 104:

(Internet) A person who runs or moderates a listserv or other online mailing list.


Chromebase

a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style all-in-one personal computer

all-in-one

a type of personal computer which combines the system unit and screen into one device


Chromebit

The first Chromebooks shipped in 2011, and have since been joined by Chromeboxes and Chromebits headless clients that connect to a keyboard, mouse and display and a small number of all-in-ones.

2017 November 23, Nik Rawlinson, “Should I roll out Chrome OS across my business?”, in IT PRO:

Chrome OS tablets may be the new hotness, but the vast majority of devices that have shipped with Google’s Chrome operating system over the years have been laptops… also known as Chromebooks. But a few years ago we also saw the introduction of a few other categories including Chromeboxes (mini desktop computers), Chromebits (PC-on-a-stick devices), and Chromebases (all-in-one, iMac-like desktops).

2019 February 4, Brad Linder, “Chromebases are still a thing”, in Liliputing:

There are a lot of Chromebooks and Chromeboxes and Chromebits and what-nots out in the wild, but almost all of them are lower spec cheaper models.

2020 January 18, Jerry Hildenbrand, “Steam for Chrome OS would make Chromeboxes even more awesome”, in Android Central:

a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style picocomputer (a stick that plugs into a screen, the size of a highlighter pen)


Chromebox

You can view a complete list of supported Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases below: (followed by a list of devices from various manufacturers)

2016 May 19, Dan Graziano, “These are the Chromebooks that support Android apps”, in CNET:

(computing) a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style personal computer (this style of PC is the size of a home modem or home network router)


cybersoul

CompuServe is battling for your cybersoul. The Columbus, Ohio-based company's flagship CompuServe Information Service is the world's #2 online service (after America Online).

1996, Hoover's Guide to Media Companies:

But is this communion of cybersouls a sound foundation for religion? It flies in the face of the decidedly more social realities of religious life as it has been known for centuries […]

2004, Peter Antes, Regional, Critical, and Historical Approaches, page 398:

The supposed equivalent of a soul in cyberspace.


websmith

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) links websmiths, the users who actually write Web pages, back to the operating system.

1996, Ed Dille, Exploring Moving Worlds: Discovering Virtual Motion on the Web:

It's not at all unusual for a prolific Websmith to have 5, 10, or even 20 different pages!

1998, Paul McFedries, The complete idiot's guide to creating an HTML 4 Web page, page 51:

Apple handed amateur Websmiths a mixed blessing with iWeb. On the one hand, iWeb '08 makes it dead simple to set up your personal online emporium, chock-full of photos, videos, heartfelt blog ramblings, and now Google Maps and Ads […]

(Internet) A person who creates web pages.


Pravda

Borrowed from Russian Правда (Pravda, literally “The Truth”).

bor+

These figures indicate that there must have been considerable wastage in the past; indeed Pravda said that “no deviation from these standards is to be permitted, however slight, and it is the duty of Party workers in factories to exercise their rights of supervision to eliminate waste.”

1949 April, John Baker White, “How's Business in Russia?”, in The Atlantic:

The official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and successor papers.


vaguebook

en-verb

vaguebook (third-person singular simple present vaguebooks, present participle vaguebooking, simple past and past participle vaguebooked)

vaguebooks (present singular third-person)
vaguebooking (participle present)
vaguebooked (participle past)
vaguebooked (past)

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Coordinate term: subtweet

While watching that video of the 2012 New Year’s Eve party, both the president and first lady realize they have something to hold over their rival’s head. What it is, exactly, remains unclear. Which is maddening; these two talk to each other the way some people “vaguebook” on Facebook.

2016 March 8, Jen Chaney, “‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 7: Rock Star Candidate”, in New York Times:

There. You’ve just had a taste of VAGUEBOOKing, a fabulous word that has been around for a while, but which makes its New York Times Crossword debut today as VAGUEBOOKS. If you have an active Facebook account, you undoubtedly have at least one friend who tends to do this.

2017 July 6, Deb Amlen, “Intentionally Mysterious Update”, in New York Times:

A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, intransitive) To post deliberately cryptic statements on social media (particularly Facebook) so as to elicit attention or requests for detail.


spoetry

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Irreverent poetry constructed from the subject lines of spam e-mail messages.


userlist

If you don't have your password set within a week I'll remove you from the userlist and I'll add you again next time I see you in the chan and make sure you set a pass.

1999, Jonny Durango, “IMPORTANT NEWS FOR AHM IRC CHAN!!!”, in alt.hackers.malicious (Usenet):

(Internet, IRC) A list of users, typically for the purpose of authorization on IRC.


FaceSpace

A blend of the names of the well-known social networks Facebook and Myspace.

He could contact the administrators of FACEspace to have the page removed and he could also contact the police to have them deal with the situation.

2010, Bullying in a Cyber World :-), volume 4, R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN, page 24:

This fast-paced video gives you a glimpse of office workers using smartphones, computers, and other technologies on the job.[…] Who is using “FaceSpace” and why?

2012, Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, Essentials of Business Communication, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, 9, pages 136-137:

Like everyone else, I’ve been on FaceSpace for a while. Seems like everyone’s having fun.

2013, Adrian Chamberlain, FaceSpace: Orca Currents, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

No more facespace. No more texting or tweeting.

2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 201:

social networking
social networking#English


snippage

2001, User: invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Subject: [chat] Sweet baby jebus, the snippage!
"Please remember that every time you send an email to the SLUG lists, it is multiplied out to everyone on the list, *including* people who subscribe on digest mode. Lack of snippage is particularly annoying for them."

(Internet) removal of the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message


unsend

unsend (third-person singular simple present unsends, present participle unsending, simple past and past participle unsent)

unsends (present singular third-person)
unsending (participle present)
unsent (participle past)
unsent (past)

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To unsend a piece of mail, highlight the mail you wish to unsend and click the Unsend button.

1997, Tom Lichty, Jennifer Marx, Jennifer Watson, The Official America Online Tour Guide - Page 61:

(transitive, messaging, email, text messaging) To undo, cancel, or reverse the transmission of a message


unsend

(messaging, email, text messaging) The functionality or ability to reverse a message transmission


podcastable

en-adj

podcastable (comparative more podcastable, superlative most podcastable)

more podcastable (comparative)
most podcastable (superlative)

(Internet, neologism, rare) Capable of being podcasted.


webfolio

(Internet) An e-portfolio published on the World Wide Web.


affzer

Initialism of alt.fan.frank-zappa + -er.

(Internet slang) A member of the alt.fan.frank-zappa newsgroup, for fans of the musician Frank Zappa.