silly window syndrome

(Internet) A problem in data transmission, where a server, unable to process all incoming data, repeatedly asks the clients to reduce the size of the packets they are sending — to the point where all packets become extremely small ("tinygrams") and transmission becomes inefficient.


textboard

go back to your textboards where youre^([sic]) the king of children

2003, Locco, “The keystying is calling...drop some shit...”, in alt.rap (Usenet):

Textboards would come first but then we'd see imageboards later on.

2008, Straha, “AH Challenge: Usenet triumphant”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet):

(Internet) A simple Internet message board that allows anonymous posting without registering an account.


gravatar

Blend of globally + recognized + avatar; a marketing coinage.

(Internet) An image (avatar) that registered users can use automatically on various blogging sites.


recrawl

en-verb

recrawl (third-person singular simple present recrawls, present participle recrawling, simple past and past participle recrawled)

recrawls (present singular third-person)
recrawling (participle present)
recrawled (participle past)
recrawled (past)

Your Web site's listing in the search engine won't be updated until we get around to recrawling your pages.


fakester

These "fakesters" portray themselves as everything from inanimate objects like the World Trade Center to celebrities like Paris Hilton to historical forces like War (which lists its profession as "resolving disputes").

2003 August 13, Lessley Anderson, “Attack of the Smartasses”, in SF Weekly:

(Internet) A user account on a social networking site with a profile containing information of a false, satirical, or promotional nature.


Godcast

They are logging on to blogs, listening to Godcasts, interacting in chat rooms, and, in a sense, creating a highly personal just-for-me religion that connects a panoply of other beliefs.

2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 13–14:

(Internet, religion) A podcast featuring sermons or other content of a religious nature.


alt text

en-noun

alt text (countable and uncountable, plural alt texts)

Short for alternative text. It is represented in HTML by the alt attribute.

Screenreaders for the blind read out the alt text when they encounter an image on a Web page.

(Internet) A text caption, associated with an image or other element, that is rendered if the usual content cannot be rendered.


viewser

From a typographical error for viewers, which entered general use after an article entitled "Viewsers," the audience of the future? appeared in the Thunderbird Online Magazine. In the article, viewsers is considered to be a blend of the words users and viewers.

(Internet, slang) One who is both a user and a viewer of the Internet or other broadcast media.


immort

Note: I'm not an immort on Armag, but merely just a player.

1995, djoh...@pluggers.esu8.k12.ne.us, “A great Role Playing MUD”, in rec.games.mud.diku (Usenet):

[Quoting "LegendMUD Rules"] For additional information, see individual help files or immorts with the 'Admin' flag.

2001, Eric Michael Mazur, Kate McCarthy, God in the details: American religion in popular culture, page 272:

(Internet, informal) An immortal; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.


remort

en-verb

remort (third-person singular simple present remorts, present participle remorting, simple past and past participle remorted)

remorts (present singular third-person)
remorting (participle present)
remorted (participle past)
remorted (past)

After remorting you can choose your 2. class (we have 4x4 = 16 classes all in all).

1996, Stefan Rensing, “[ANNOUNCE] MULTI MUD, Germany”, in de.alt.mud (Usenet):

Once remorted they are then on the road to becoming a Hero or Legend within the world. Unlike most other remort systems, our^([sic]) assigns experience to each selected class.

2000, Glenn, “AD: [smaug] Snowdens Revenge is ready to Rock”, in rec.games.mud.announce (Usenet):

(Internet, multi-user dungeons) To start over or reincarnate as a beginner-level character (while keeping former classes, experience points, acquired skills, and items).


knowbie

From know + -bie, patterned after newbie, with know replacing new to suggest knowledge.

Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas.

2005 June 19, William Safire, “The Way We Live Now: 6-19-05: On Language; Qualassurepurp”, in The New York Times:

(Internet) An experienced Internet user.


semirant

anyhoo, just my little semirant..

1997 May 6, Charles Albert Mangin, “Mush/Musecode archive ?”, in rec.games.mud.tiny (Usenet):

(informal, chiefly Internet) A mild or brief rant.


ghost post

(Internet) A comment, on a social networking website, that has been deleted, resulting in confusion since the conversation is now incomplete.


advice animal

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Advice Animals are the greatest epic fad of all time [pics]

2009 March 28, Author, Advice Animals are the greatest epic fad of all time, MTG Salvation Forum

— Mixing advice animals i.e. half a courage wolf quote with half an emo dog one. theres a ton of these.

2009 July 17, Richie McNuggets, A list of Memes yet to be submitted., Know Your Meme

Among the Advice Animal memes popularized by 4chan and Meme Generator, Bachelor Frog (aka Foul Bachelor Frog) occupies a unique "it's funny because it's true" space.
Whereas other advice animals (animal heads that give two-line directives), such as Advice Dog and Courage Wolf, emphasize over-the-top humor, Bachelor Frog relies on nuance familiar to anyone (especially dudes) who's ever lived alone. That naturally makes him the perfect internet mascot.

2010, March 25, Cole Stryker, A Guide to Foul Bachelor Frog, 4chan's Funniest Advice Dog Spinoff, urlesque

(Internet, mainly in the plural) A photograph of an animal or human captioned with quotations typical of a stereotype or stock character, and where the background of the original image is often replaced with a color wheel.


cosysop

One of the kids Grumman had swooped down on was cosysop for Quiet Riot, a board in the neighboring 718 area.

1990, SPIN, volume 5, number 12, page 85:

(computing, Internet, dated) A user granted some of the administrative privileges of a sysop.


subweb

(Internet, Microsoft FrontPage) A subsection of a web site.

A web making up part of a larger web.
A subsection of a web site.


revenge porn

France has threatened to fine Facebook for sharing data between its various apps. Almost every day you get hammered for not properly policing the content, including extremists’ videos, revenge porn and fake news, that appears on your platforms.

2018 January 20, Eve Smith, “The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do”, in The Economist:

The charges against Mr. Bradshaw were the latest in a series of high-profile revenge porn cases in recent years, and groups that support survivors of sexual violence say there has been an increase in reports of revenge porn and other forms of online sexual harassment during the coronavirus pandemic.

2021 November 16, Amanda Holpuch, “Maryland Mayor Is Charged in ‘Revenge Porn’ Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal) Sexually explicit media of a person distributed online without the consent of the pictured individual, typically by a former partner or hacker, either from genuine video or by deepfake, and often with the intent to humiliate the subject and damage his/her reputation.


seedbox

(Internet) A private server used for uploading and downloading files from a peer-to-peer network.


From /b/ - Random, an imageboard on 4chan. It combines a humorously censored version of bastard with /b/, while rhyming with retard. /b/ itself derives its name from the Futaba Channel (2chan) equivalent.

not to sound insulting, but are you a /b/tard by any chance?

2006 July 1, nikolai kingsley, rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <4gmmmbF1n9jlsU1@individual.net>:

Poole’s efforts to rein in some of the chaos earned him scorn not just from the /b/tards but also from the largest collective of wired rebels in the world, Anonymous, which had first coalesced on 4chan around 2006 as a kind of inside joke (“Anonymous” is the default handle on 4chan).

2015 March 13, David Kushner, “4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away”, in Rolling Stone:

(Internet slang) A habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.


From Internet forums such as Slashdot that allow users to vote for or against a comment, increasing or decreasing its score by one.

(Internet slang) Used to signify agreement with the comment to which one is replying.


likejacking

Blend of like + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

On Facebook, the form this takes has been dubbed Likejacking, because the object of the scam is to get you to click a hidden Like button, sending out a News Feed story saying that you Liked a Page or a link that you haven't, in fact, Liked.

No risk of "likejacking", "clickjacking", spammy apps or anything else that's so prevalent these days.

2011, Sycho, “Insurgents Intercept Drone Video in King-Size Security Breach (Updated, with Video)”, in alt.2600 (Usenet):

(Internet, neologism) The malicious practice of tricking users of a social networking website into "liking" something they did not intend to like.


narg

An acronym for "not a real gentleman" Someone who discusses matters of business when not working.

Perhaps I can be of some assistance here, as I appear to be a member of the Rules subcommittee and am therefore (and for other reasons to numerous to mention) a narg.

1994 November 7, purvis, “Postal Tiddlywinks”, in alt.games.tiddlywinks (Usenet):

1997, November 4, Sunday lunch, cam.misc
I don't work in the computer industry, either, but all my friends are sad nargs who sit around talking about things like HHGTTG.

1998, June 11, Unusual job for talented computer programmer, cam.misc
... most of my adult life going out with a succession of computer programmers, physicists, engineers, budding mathematicians and general nargs of both sexes.

> Tried that myself as a kid (must be an inquisitive nargy engineering
> thing).
Oi! Brown! Are you calling me a narg? Oh well, fair enough I suppose :-)

2001 February 2, Vicky Larmour, “Any americans reading this? - HELP!!!!”, in cam.misc (Usenet):

'I mean what makes you think he's a poofdah, you narg?' 'I 'aven't got where I am today wivout bein' able to spot a poofdah when I see one. Besides, I used to listen to 'im on the phone talkin' to 'is poofdah friends.

2011, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Corridors of Death: A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery, page 116:

(Internet) A nerd, someone with extensive knowledge of a particular technical field.


SERM

en-noun

SERM (countable and uncountable, plural SERMs)

(Internet) Initialism of search engine reputation management.


twimmolation

twimmolation (usually uncountable, plural twimmolations)

No, Weiner is not the first person to be taken down by twimmolation, nor will he be the last.

2011 December 7, Allie Townsend, “The Top 10 Everything of 2011”, in Time:

(neologism, Internet) Public censure brought upon someone by an offensive or otherwise inadvisable Twitter post.


tweetdom

Not surprisingly, the tweetdom interpreted Burnside's comment as linking the Catholic Abbott with the paedophile scandal in sections of the Catholic Church.

2011 October 4, Gerard Henderson, “Sectarian rant against Abbott is full of holes, despite QC's excitement”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

The world of Twitter; Twitter users collectively.


tweeps

"Star magazine says we have a loveless marriage." I told my tweeps not to believe it.

2010, Tori Spelling, Uncharted TerriTORI, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 75:

(Internet, slang) Twitter followers, especially one's own.


tweep

As astute tweeps will observe, I myself only follow one other person, the one thou callest "Justin Bieber"; […]

2011, David Javerbaum (writing as God), The Last Testament: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 305:

(Internet, slang) A user of the Twitter microblogging service.

“I recognize this is a crazy moment where Tweeps are losing access and the layoff is in progress,” she wrote on Slack, adding a broken heart emoji and a link to a video conferencing room, according to messages viewed by The Times.

2022 November 4, Kate Conger, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, quoting Esther Crawford, “Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


blogworthy

en-adj

blogworthy (comparative blogworthier or more blogworthy, superlative blogworthiest or most blogworthy)

blogworthier (comparative)
more blogworthy (comparative)
blogworthiest (superlative)
most blogworthy (superlative)

This incident was definitely blogworthy; she was already curious about Sparrowhawk's take on it.

2008, Mitali Perkins, First Daughter: White House Rules:

It was a good list, to which she was prepared to add from time to time, but it was the only blogworthy one in her notebook.

Problems for the opposition, particularly scandals involving opposition political figures, are particularly blogworthy.

2009, Richard Davis, Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics:

Worthy of being blogged or blogged about.


COLA

(acronym) comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system)


infinite scroll

The prime example of this is the so-called infinite scroll pattern. The idea is simple: rather than distribute results across a series of pages, all results are loaded into a single page.

2009, Robert Hoekman, Jared Spool, Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks That Work, page 96:

You want to create an “infinite scroll” interaction that appends new results as the user scrolls down the page.

2012, Evan Goer, Yui 3 Cookbook, page 80:

(web design) A web design technique that loads more content as the user scrolls towards the end of the loaded content. This prevents the browser scroll bar from scrolling to the bottom of the page, causing the page to grow with additional content instead, until there are no more results to be displayed.


quod google

The one thing missing is the interactive lisp shell of emacs; but here too, Larry Clapp (quod google) has written vim and perl scripts for communicating between vim and a lisp (maybe only CMUCL) process.

2003 April 7, Dorai Sitaram, “Re: Lisp development not using emacs.”, in comp.lang.lisp (Usenet):

(Internet) Which one should Google. (Used after a term to indicate that more information on the term can be found through a Google search.)


FTPable

While all areas of engineering are not abundantly represented in the over 1000000 FTPable items, computer science reports certainly are.

The list, derived from "The EFF's Guide to the Internet" is by no means all-inclusive, but it should cover about 98 percent of the FTPable files you will find.

1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer:


netnews

Usenet software has gotten much better over time to cope with the ever increasing aggregate flow of netnews[…]

1995, Mark Harrison, The Usenet handbook: a user's guide to Netnews:

In the UNIX tradition categories of netnews groups are structured hierarchically.

2003, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8, page 399:

(Internet) Electronic messages distributed by means of newsgroups, such as on Usenet.


webize

en-verb

webize (third-person singular simple present webizes, present participle webizing, simple past and past participle webized)

webizes (present singular third-person)
webizing (participle present)
webized (participle past)
webized (past)

Anchors provide object identity via webizing through URIs.

2005, Asaf Adi, Suzette Stoutenburg, Said Tabet, Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, page 219:

Of course, that doesn't mean that parts of the home-buying process haven't been “webized,” or broken down into smaller pieces that can be done very efficiently online.

2008, Jim Remley, Sell Your Home in Any Market, page 79:

RuleML pioneered the XML representation of a modular family of webized rule sublanguages, catering to a variety of needs.

2012, Monica Palmirani, Davide Sottara, Rule-Based Modeling and Computing on the Semantic Web, page 233:

(Internet, transitive) To adapt for the World Wide Web.


velveeta

After Velveeta, a brand of processed cheese (itself from velvet), perhaps likening its spreadability to the spreading of a post across newsgroups. Coined by Usenet user Charles Daniels in 1995. Compare spam (“junk e-mail”) (named after SPAM, brand of processed meat).

Massive velveeta and spammage are highly frowned upon.

1996, The Lone Warrior, “Alt.Barney.Dinosaur.Die.Die.Die FAQ (tentative)”, in alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die (Usenet):

As a matter of summary the us.* hierarchy limit of 5 groups has substantial outside support as being reasonable due to velveeta.

2002, edward ohare, “The real points?”, in us.config (Usenet):

But a double cross post to applicable groups is not velveeta, spam, or bad netiquette.

2003, JT, “OT - Re: Please do not cross-post!”, in alt.tv.young+restless (Usenet):

My newsreader (Zimacs) displays aaue and I reply accordingly, perhaps the designer of the software was more aware of velveeta.?

2004, Joe Curry, “Trip Report - RAF Museum Cosford!”, in alt.airports.uk.edinburgh (Usenet):

(Internet, rare) The crossposting of a message to an unreasonably large number of newsgroups.


spammage

(Internet, informal) spamming; sending junk mail in electronic format


unGoogleable

en-adj

unGoogleable (comparative more unGoogleable, superlative most unGoogleable)

more unGoogleable (comparative)
most unGoogleable (superlative)

"We don't know his real first name. He's unGoogleable," Veronica said.

2010, Kristen Tracy, A Field Guide for Heartbreakers, Hyperion, published 2010, →ISBN:


ungoogleable

ungoogleable (comparative more ungoogleable, superlative most ungoogleable)

more ungoogleable (comparative)
most ungoogleable (superlative)

/ˌʌnˈɡuːɡələbəl/

[ˌʌnˈɡuːɡɫ̩əbɫ̩]

The ungoogleable rockers admit that plans for a physical release of Chariot are still very much up in the air, […]

2010 April 7, Celina Murphy, “Don't Feel Like Danson”, in Hot Press:

Incapable of being found on the Web, especially through the search engine Google.


Web spider

More precisely, the typical workflow of a vulnerability scanners consists of the following steps: – First, a web spider crawls the site to find valid injection points

2008, Richard Lippmann, Engin Kirda, Ari Trachtenberg, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 11th International Symposium, page 194:

(Internet) A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web.


about page

a type of web page commonly seen on websites,containing general information about the person or organization that is responsible for the website in question, usually a description of the site's history and mission or purpose.


digital footprint

en-noun

digital footprint (plural digital footprints)

On the other hand, a positive digital footprint can enhance a person's reputation.

2012, Nicholas Croce, Enhancing Your Academic Digital Footprint, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 6:

A person's digital footprint is essentially a digital first impression. As I mention in Chapter 1, a child's digital footprint includes all information related to that child posted online.

2013, Amy Lupold Bair, Raising Digital Families For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

What you most likely found through researching your digital footprint before you branded yourself is that you are a very creative individual who used a vast number of new media tools and technologies […]

2015, James Cohen, Thomas Kenny, Producing New and Digital Media […] , CRC Press, →ISBN, page 239:

(telecommunications) Digital evidence of a person's activities and interactions with others on the Internet, TV, mobile devices, etc.

дигитална следа

digital evidence of a person's activities on the Internet


TBT

(web development) Initialism of total blocking time.


necro

en-verb

necro (third-person singular simple present necroes or necros, present participle necroing, simple past and past participle necroed)

necroes (present singular third-person)
necros (present singular third-person)
necroing (participle present)
necroed (participle past)
necroed (past)

Sorry to necro a comment from three years ago, but …

(Internet) To make a new post to a forum discussion that has been dormant for a long time, making the thread visible in the list of active topics; to bump.

“I killed and necroed a couple guards practically every time I went out. My boys have the south gate manned, and they'll be stepping aside any minute now.”

2018, Xavier P. Hunter, House Rules: a LitRPG novel, Magical Scrivener Press, →ISBN:

(Internet, video games and card games slang) To practice necromancy; to bring back from the dead.


necro

(Internet, video game and card game slang) Necromancer.


box model

So called because the padding, border, and margin can be visualised as three levels of boxes surrounding an element.

(Internet) The set of CSS rules that govern the size, shape, spacing, borders, and margins of web page elements.


LPT

en-noun

LPT (countable and uncountable, plural LPTs)

(Internet slang, Reddit) Initialism of life pro tip.


classitis

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Classitis can be avoided through a better understanding of CSS selectors.

2006, Paul Haine, HTML Mastery: Semantics, Standards, and Styling, page 175:

Frameworks tend to suffer from divitis and classitis.

2011, Antony Kennedy, Inayaili de León, Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites, page 102:

(web design, usually derogatory) The practice of authoring stylesheets with redundant and semantically unhelpful classes.


what is this I don't even

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The run-on and fragmentary structure of this phrase is presumably intended to mimic literally being rendered speechless.

My own personal hell came to pass on January 18th, 2012: Reddit and Wikipedia went offline. Yes, the point was to raise awareness about the intrusive, unjust Stop Online Piracy act. And yes, the blackout was politically influential and reached millions over a period of twelve hours…but what was I supposed to do? Play in the snow? Actually talk to humans in real life? What is this I don't even.

2012, Michael Kaemingk, "SOPA bill fails to address actual piracy issues", The Spectator (Seattle University), 25 January 2012

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that something has left one in a state of disbelief or confusion.


what has been seen cannot be unseen

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At Dachau he was witness to real rather than abstract suffering; what has been seen cannot be unseen, nor can it be rationalized.

2010, Brad Prager, “Suffering and Sympathy in Volker Schlöndorff's Der neunte Tag and Dennis Gansel's NaPolA”, in Paul Cooke, Marc Silberman, editors, Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering, Camden House, →ISBN, page 196:

I went into Akira knowing it's considered amongst critics a landmark film for anime and the success of the genre in America, but I was also expecting the type of weirdness that has given anime an infamous reputation in pop culture. Don't know what I'm talking about? Google "hentai." …Actually, no, don't do that. Seriously. Don't fucking do that. What has been seen cannot be unseen.

2011 December, Jay Wallace, “Akira”, in BandWagon Magazine:

Repulsive, disturbing, or horrific sights can never be erased from memory once they have been seen.

that which has been seen cannot be unseen


midbie

I would like to appeal to all midbies/oldbies to help the newbies if you can.

1996 April 5, Patrick Toh, “Help The Newbies”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

Viper newbies/midbies tip: If you constantly attack in the air, a reasonably observant opponent will always know what status your weapon gauges are in.

1997 December 8, Tirah Dragonfire [username], “Re: [VO]:HKSR with central weapon cancel?”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet):

As persons spent more time in Second Life, their newbie status would fade and they would become known as residents, players, participants, or even "midbies." Midbie status was shaped not just by the absolute amount of time since the creation of an account, but by the cumulative amount of time spent inworld.

2008, Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

(Internet) An intermediate user or player.


speedy delete

en-verb

speedy delete (third-person singular simple present speedy deletes, present participle speedy deleting, simple past and past participle speedy deleted)

speedy deletes (present singular third-person)
speedy deleting (participle present)
speedy deleted (participle past)
speedy deleted (past)

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The article should be speedy deleted, as a blatant and obvious hoax.

On Wednesday evening, Wales posted this note on Wikimedia Commons: […] “I think our existing policies here on commons are sufficient to deal with the problem – with the minor exception that many things should just be speedy deleted and argued about later.[…]”

2010 May 7, Jana Winter, “Exclusive: Wikipedia's Parent Company Starts Purging Porn From Its Websites”, in Fox News:

“Speedy Delete—G1 [general criterion 1], G2, G3, or G11—Take your pick. How about simply not notable, vandalism, hoax, etc? Whether it can be considered art or not is irrelevant. Wikipedia ain’t your canvas.”

2015, Nathaniel Tkacz, Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, →ISBN, page 59:

“Speedy Delete. Yawn. […] There’s *less* attention to him now than before. He’s little different than most teenagers that host a party without their parents^([sic]) knowledge, even if he does wear big glasses and make an ass of himself on TV.”

2017, Catherine Hartung, Conditional Citizens: Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation, →ISBN, page 101, note 10:

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon, transitive) To summarily delete one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.

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


JavaScripter

A lot of the most talented JavaScripters out there like to share their ideas, innovations, and experiments with the rest of the world through their blogs[…]

2006, Christian Heilmann, Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and AJAX, page xxiii:

programming language
programming language

One who uses the JavaScript programming language.


catch the bus

catch the bus (third-person singular simple present catches the bus, present participle catching the bus, simple past and past participle caught the bus)

catches the bus (present singular third-person)
catching the bus (participle present)
caught the bus (participle past)
caught the bus (past)

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Originated on the alt.suicide.holiday Internet newsgroup in the 1990s.

I have the tools for catching the bus, just not the nerve. Soft suicide I can do. Take some pills, no problem. But never do I succeed that way.

2000, (unknown), “catching the bus tonight..... I hope.....”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

If anyone's curious, here's a song my band recorded (totally raw... it never made it out of the studio). A friend of mine caught the bus, and this was my way of saying "Peace."

2004, everwestward, “Is suicide contagious? (was Re: Favorite Songs)”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

Anyway at the end of my day, I decided to give him a call because the worse thing that would happen is that I would have to catch the bus.

2010, Michael F. Clark, Life By Suicide, page 116:

this wasn't the first time he spoke of suicide--this was a suicide chat room after all […]
00sexboy00: tonights^([sic]) the night to catch the bus john! u been crying u pussy? ur slanty eyes are all red!
john squeezed them shut and nodded.
gabe wanted to reach a hand through the monitor to comfort his friend. but all he could do was type.

2011, Jake Vander Ark, Lighthouse Nights:

(euphemistic, chiefly Internet) To kill oneself deliberately; to commit suicide.


straightsplain

straightsplain (third-person singular simple present straightsplains, present participle straightsplaining, simple past and past participle straightsplained)

straightsplains (present singular third-person)
straightsplaining (participle present)
straightsplained (participle past)
straightsplained (past)

From straight + -splain, after mansplain.

There are several different degrees of straightsplaining. That word, inspired by the increasingly common "mansplaining," describes the practice of straight people explaining how gay people are, or what gay people do, or how gay people do what they do, or why.

2014 July 2, Rich Juzwiak, “A Field Guide to Straightsplaining”, in Gawker, retrieved 2016-10-19:

What both Longhurst and Hartley-Brewer failed to notice was that, by trying to universalise the incident as an attack on, as they said, “the freedom of all people”, they were attempting to both whitewash and "straight-splain" Orlando.

2016 June 23, Alim Kheraj, “"Let LGBT People Of Colour Speak For Themselves"”, in Refinery29, retrieved 2016-10-19:

2016 October 18, Ben Winsor, “Comment: Thank you for straight-splaining the plebiscite to us 'naive' LGBT Australians”, in SBS Sexuality, archived from the original on 2016-10-20:

And now, the plebiscite is dead. And hopefully so is the straightsplaining.

2016 November 9, Rebecca Shaw, “The plebiscite is dead, hopefully it takes all the straightsplaining with it”, in SBS Comedy, retrieved 2017-04-21:

(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain LGBT issues, people or behavior to someone who is not of a heterosexual orientation (i.e. an LGBT individual) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener's inferior understanding.


whitesplain

whitesplain (third-person singular simple present whitesplains, present participle whitesplaining, simple past and past participle whitesplained)

whitesplains (present singular third-person)
whitesplaining (participle present)
whitesplained (participle past)
whitesplained (past)

Rand Paul whitesplained to students at Howard University that a black Republican founded the NAACP.

2013, Clarence Page (quoting Urban Dictionary), "Rand Paul ‘whitesplaining’ for Howard students", New Haven Register, 16 April 2013

One self-described white feminist tweeted at her to explain that no women of color had been at the Barnard meeting "and that I needed to be educated about that," Wilson recalls. Somehow, activists who prided themselves on their racial enlightenment "were whitesplaining me about racism," she adds, laughing.

2014 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “Feminism's Toxic Twitter Wars”, in The Nation:

Obviously, the answer for those living in abject poverty in a jobless environment is to have someone come down from their lofty perch and whitesplain about how to lift yourself up by your bootstraps.

2014, Justin Baragona, "Paul Ryan claims Black men are lazy and cause of poverty", New York Beacon, Volume 21, Number 12, 20 March 2014 - 26 March 2014, page 4

(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain (something) condescendingly to one who is not white, especially regarding race relations or minority behavior, presuming the listener's inferior understanding because of their race.


WiFier

"Many public WiFiers are salespeople or other professionals on the move who just can't bring themselves to stop working during lunch. So they choose to lunch at a place that also has a connection so they can keep browsing/emailing/whatever while they are shoving that club sandwich down their throats. […]

2003 July 25, Oliver Burkeman, “Stuff the office - let's all go to the beach”, in The Guardian:

Nintendo is *really* determined to annoy non-WiFiers. Anyone who WiFied over the President's Holiday weekend received a Top Hat in the mail from Tortimer. Thanks for all the advance warning, Nintendo.

2006 March 2, thom_b, “*SPRING* has *SPRUNG* [end of WW M3]”, in alt.games.video.nintendo.animal-crossing (Usenet):

DTV encrypts their signal, they take active measures to prevent theft. WiFiers can do the same.

2006 October 3, Jerry Osage, “Re: WIFI---is it LEGAL to use an open signal?”, in rec.outdoors.rv-travel (Usenet):

David Lowery complains that single WiFiers won't vacate tables at his favorite coffee shop so other diners can sit down.

2007 February 15, letter to the editor, Austin American-Statesman:

(Internet) A user of a Wi-Fi network, particularly a public one.


sigblock

Now cut the sigblock with control-circumflex and control-k.

1996, R R Neuswanger, “signature at the bottom of reply/forward”, in comp.mail.pine (Usenet):

In fact, a good idea might be to have email sigblocks carry this warning, to avoid later hassles over privacy.

2001, David Harley, Robert Slade, Urs E. Gattiker, Viruses revealed:

(Internet) A block of text used as a sig (e-mail or newsgroup signature).


sigfile

Can anyone please tell me why I get an 'output from your job etc' message back from bitnet everytime^([sic]) I send a message out? Is there a problem with my sigfile or does everyone get them?

1994, BILL, “help with my sigfile”, in bit.listserv.help-net (Usenet):

You've seen sigfiles: the chunk of information at the end of an email.

2002, Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, page 81:

How do you read abbreviations (IMHO)? Quoted text? Headers? Sigfiles? Emoticons?

2005, Randy Allen Harris, Voice Interaction Design, page 209:

(Internet) A text file containing a sig (e-mail or newsgroup signature).


GGG

(Internet): Coined in 2007 by Tim Berners-Lee.

(Internet) Initialism of Giant Global Graph: a proposed successor to the World Wide Web, based on semantic links.


YTP

en-noun

YTP (countable and uncountable, plural YTPs)

(Internet slang) Initialism of YouTube poop.


BCP

BCP (countable and uncountable, plural BCPs)

best current practice
w:best current practice

(Internet) Initialism of best current practice.


followee

Coordinate term: follower

Once one unfollows a followee, the follower will not get enough qualified tweets.

2013, Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Social Networks: A Framework of Computational Intelligence, Springer, →ISBN, page 251:

Twitter follower/followee structures are far from static: following another user only takes a few clicks.

2015, Bob Franklin, editor, The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates, Routledge, →ISBN:

(social media) One who is followed (has his/her posts monitored by another user).


superdomain

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Notes provides your Internet domain name (as it appears in the computer's TCP/IP setup and minus the superdomain (org, net, and so on) component) as a default.

2000, Rob Kirkland, Domino System Administration, page 76:

Flash disallowed access only between two completely different superdomains, but allowed access between two different subdomains and/or protocols[…]

2004, Robert Reinhardt, Joey Lott, Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Bible, page 537:

(Internet, rare) The domain to which a subdomain belongs.


virtual proxy

(Internet) A proxy that controls access to a resource that is expensive to create.


surrogate proxy

surrogate proxy (plural surrogate proxies)


remote proxy

(Internet) A proxy that controls access to a remote object.


protection proxy

protection proxy (plural protection proxies)

(Internet) A proxy that controls access to a resource based on access rights.


dynamic proxy

(Internet) A proxy that creates the actual proxy class at runtime.


dot-com bubble

The excitement about bitcoin and blockchain is sort of like the dot-com bubble—if nobody in 2000 was quite sure what the internet was for.

2018 January 10, Derek Thompson, “It Is Silly Season in the Land of Cryptocurrency”, in The Atlantic:

That was part of what made the March reopening of Balthazar, a SoHo mainstay since the height of the dot-com bubble, unusual. Jay-Z and Beyoncé turned up for dinner. Nancy Pelosi came for breakfast. Patrons made out at their tables, took trips together to the bathroom.

2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times:

(business, historical) A historic speculative bubble based around the Internet, covering roughly 1997–2000.


reshare

There are two types of reshares in Facebook: (a) link reshares and (b) content reshares.

2014, Vijay Atluri, Günther Pernul, Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXVIII: 28th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference, DBSec 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 14-16, 2014, Proceedings, page 168:

(Internet) The act of sharing previously shared material again, so as to reach a further group of users.


complexity-hiding proxy

complexity-hiding proxy (plural complexity-hiding proxies)

(Internet) A proxy that hides the complexity of and controls access to a complex set of classes.


synchronization proxy

synchronization proxy (plural synchronization proxies)

synchronisation proxy
synchronisation proxy#English

(Internet) Alternative form of synchronisation proxy


synchronisation proxy

synchronisation proxy (plural synchronisation proxies)

(Internet) A proxy that provides safe access to a subject from multiple threads.


caching proxy

(Internet) A proxy that provides temporary storage for results of operations that are expensive.


Caturday

I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.

2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in Time:

Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet.

2010 August 31, Jon Kelly, Jude Sheerin, “The strange virtual world of 4chan”, in BBC News:

When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.

2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, →ISBN, page 148:

(Internet slang) Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats.


local area network

local area network (plural local area networks)

/ˈləʊklˌɛːɹɪəˌnɛtwəːk/

(Internet) A network on which all communication is delivered by way of MAC addresses and that is not routed.


threadjack

en-verb

threadjack (third-person singular simple present threadjacks, present participle threadjacking, simple past and past participle threadjacked)

threadjacks (present singular third-person)
threadjacking (participle present)
threadjacked (participle past)
threadjacked (past)

(Internet) To take over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.


deboost

deboost (third-person singular simple present deboosts, present participle deboosting, simple past and past participle deboosted)

deboosts (present singular third-person)
deboosting (participle present)
deboosted (participle past)
deboosted (past)

In one tweet Elon appears to allude to the fact that Twitter’s internal systems can apply a shadow ban and deboost an account on their own, without any human interference or knowledge. […] Outside of the Twitter Terms of Service there are no guidelines for when or how a user could be shadow banned or deboosted – likely, because until recently most users were unaware that such a thing could occur to them.

2022 November 28, Joe Youngblood, “How to Tell if You Have Been Shadow Banned or Deboosted on Twitter”, in Joe Youngblood:

And it was not as though they were unable, as the waves of bannings and algorithmic deboosting of those on the online right began in earnest after 2016.

2023 March 16, Andrew Isker, “The Regime’s War To Make Memes Illegal”, in Gab News:

(transitive, Internet) To limit or suppress the reach of an account or post.


tumblelog

From tumble + log, an early term for microblog, coined by Jonathan Gillette in 2005, based on the tagline of Leah Neukirchen's Anarchaia blog (“experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin’”).

For a concrete example, imagine you've created a Tumblelog, which is like a weblog but with many small posts of different types.

2006, Chad Fowler, Rails Recipes, Raleigh, N.C.: Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN, page 195:

Tumblr, launched in March, allows users to publish digital files or brief blog posts to a single online location, dubbed a tumblelog.

Twitter and tumblelogs work equally well in this case. However, blogging and longer forms of writing are still important for communicating complex or longer ideas.

2009, Gavin Bell, Building Social Web Applications, page 133:

Sue Weston details her current artwork. “It’s called 'Magpie.’ I stand in Daley Plaza, jotting down the things people say into their cells. Then I post it on a tumblelog. Amazing, what people will tell a street full of strangers.”

2010, Richard Powers, Generosity, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 10:

At the same time as maintaining activity on my tumblelog, I was communicating with other bloggers outside the group, collaborating with other teachers at my own institution, reflecting alone and reading both online and on paper.

2011, Dr Kay Irie, Dr Alison Stewart, Realizing Autonomy:

(Internet) A microblog, especially one on the Tumblr microblogging service.


gmail

(trademark) Alternative letter-case form of Gmail


gmail

gmail (third-person singular simple present gmails, present participle gmailing, simple past and past participle gmailed)

gmails (present singular third-person)
gmailing (participle present)
gmailed (participle past)
gmailed (past)


circed

I have another friend with a circed husband. Their son is circed. DAD's choice.

1998 May 10, Edward and Phantom MacLennan, “Re: Don't Lose Your Son Over It”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):

My mother has no need to know if my son is circed or intact.

2001 July 31, Esther Paris, “Re: OT Sorta: Dealing with People's Comments, etc.”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):

Even if your son is circed, I doubt that your great-grandson will be.

2004 September 2, Troy McClure [username], “Re: Parents must do what they think is best for their son.”, in alt.circumcision (Usenet):


COLAtard

(Internet slang, derogatory) A participant in comp.os.linux.advocacy, a Usenet newsgroup promoting the Linux operating system.


trolltard

Nope, just a sad trolltard that's felt the need to harass this NG and it's^([sic]) members for years.

2003 July 28, higgy [username], “Re: BTR, Will you not answer the questions.”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Funny how most of the actual participants in this matter have moved on, but some trolltard who doesn't know me from Eve can't seem to.

2004 August 24, Cheryl Greer, “Re: Well That Was Fast”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

Look, everybody. The trolltard thinks we'll believe that it knows what humor and wit are. Further support for my theory that Australopithecus is still extant, and posting to Usenet.

2011 September 21, Bill Snyder, “Re: 'Super-Earth'”, in misc.writing.screenplays (Usenet):

(Internet, slang, derogatory) A stupid troll.


absolute unit

Compounded of British colloquial senses of absolute (“utter, complete”) + unit (“physically large person”). Attested from the 2010s.

compound

Liverpool BMX president Neil Cameron said, despite the name, [Kama Kazi] is a "lovely bloke", "great with the kids" and also an "absolute unit".

2006 February 15, “Sticky Beak”, in Liverpool Leader, Factiva:LIVLEA0020060215e22f00005:

(slang, UK, Australia, chiefly Internet, humorous) An exceptionally large or stout person.


om nom nom

en-noun

om nom nom (countable and uncountable, plural om nom noms)

Onomatopoeic, attested 2004, variant of num-num. Originally from the sound Cookie Monster on Sesame Street makes when he eats (from late 1960s/early 1970s), though this was canonically
“un num num num num”, with a ‘u’. Popularized since 2007 in internet use, particularly in meme-based images, especially lolcats and other image macros. See nom for details.

Activities include: / Music and Dancing / Speeches / An attempt to bring Tory and WBM to the East Coast / Balloons / Om nom noms / […]

05/04/2008, SenatorXenu, “Anonymous to hold rally in US Capitol July 19th 2008.”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

> "Guys, I want you to go out there tonight and not give the slightest
> thought about defense. None. I want you to see if you can score six
> goals, no matter how many the other guys get. You do that, and we all
> have dinners at Minneapolis' best steak house on me." […]
I like it. Motivate with some OM NOM NOM

2009 March 9, Mr. T, “Re: Giving line-juggling another shot”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.sj-sharks (Usenet):

2012, Ava Anastasia, "There's nothing wrong with some OM NOM NOM", Scope (Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia), Issue 14, Week 7, Semester 121, page 11 (used in title only)

(Internet slang, usually in the plural) Tasty food.


PTS

(Internet) Initialism of pay to surf: a business model where users are paid for viewing advertisements while browsing the World Wide Web


Twitterable

en-adj

Twitterable (comparative more Twitterable, superlative most Twitterable)

more Twitterable (comparative)
most Twitterable (superlative)

They are the camera-ready men and women who have the most fabulous lives, the most Twitterable thoughts, the most outrageous never-ending personal dramas.

2009 May 17, Cheryl Wetzstein, “U.S. narcissism out of control”, in The Washington Times:

The royal family's digital excursions have already included a YouTube channel, though it is unlikely she'd be emailable, web chattable or Twitterable any time soon.

2010 July 26, Jemima Kiss, “The Queen joins Flickr”, in The Guardian:

Palin represented a brand of conservative politics that was Twitterable and has since been instrumental in the rise of the tea party.

2011 October 6, LZ Granderson, “Sarah Palin proves she's no fool”, in CNN:

Able to be tweeted; capable of being communicated or reached through the Twitter microblogging service.


goatse

From the name of a now defunct website which first published the image, namely goatse.cx, which used the top-level domain code .cx, reserved for Christmas Island, because an attempt by an English speaker to say the website's full name would result in a string of phonemes sounding like goat sex.

I thought everyone knew about GOATSE, but I was wrong. […] And knowing about GOATSE appears to be one of its secret membership codes, which is what Anil was demonstrating when he cheekily wore the word on his T-shirt […]

2008, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, page 182:

Sometimes communities are founded specifically around the images — Facebook has a Goatse appreciation group at the time of writing […]

2010, Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography, Feona Attwood, page 136:

So they resorted to close-ups of LulzSec's Twitter feed. Specifically, 47 seconds in, the message: "For anyone that doesn't know what goatse is, check it out here, it's really eye-opening:"

2011, The Register (newspaper), "Scottish TV news pumps goatse link", John Oates

For many, the experience of Internet shock sites began with goatse, a notoriously repulsive image that is considered the king of shock sites.

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 100:

(Internet) A certain image of a man displaying his unnaturally dilated anus.


triforce

From Japanese トライフォース (toraifōsu), from English tri- + force. First used in the Legend of Zelda video game franchise for a magical artefact in that fictional universe.

A shape composed of three equilateral triangles arranged in such a manner that a fourth triangle of identical size, but pointing the opposite direction, could fit between them.

三角之力

Shape composed of three triangles in a specific alignment


triforce

en-verb

triforce (third-person singular simple present triforces, present participle triforcing, simple past and past participle triforced)

triforces (present singular third-person)
triforcing (participle present)
triforced (participle past)
triforced (past)

(Internet slang) To post three Unicode triangles (▲) arranged in this configuration, especially on 4chan, where doing this correctly was a sign of experience used to weed out newbies.


catfishing

en-noun

catfishing (usually uncountable, plural catfishings)

(Internet) The practice of creating a fake profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.


creepypasta

creepypasta (countable and uncountable, plural creepypastas)

→ Polish: creepypasta

→ Spanish: creepypasta

→ Russian: крипипа́ста (kripipásta)

→ Korean: 크리피파스타 (keuripipaseuta)

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After the pattern of copypasta, substituting creepy for copy. Originated from 4chan’s /x/ (paranormal) board sometime around 2007.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English creepy
Middle English copien
English copy
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-pasteblend.
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pastablend.
English copypasta
English creepypasta

etymon

The video is part of a growing phenomenon making its way around message boards and e-mail chains called “creepypasta” — bite-sized bits of scariness that have joined the unending list of things-to-do-when-you’re-bored-at-work.

2010 November 14, “Bored at Work? Try Creepypasta, or Web Scares”, in The New York Times, Austin Considine:

The game was born from the familiar 'Slenderman' image, which you may or may not be familiar with from internet memes and creepypasta horror stories.

2012 September 14, Kaz Scattergood, “Spooked by Slender, Fuse (Sheffield Students' Union)”, in magazine, volume 9, number 49, page 2:

"[…] Listen to the nineteen personal creepypasta-style stories to piece together the mysterious events of that fateful night in 1898, when twelve orphans simply… disappeared!"

2013 September 14, “Huntsman: The Orphanage”, in Adventure Lantern, number 46, page 7:

The eerie “Lavender Town” theme has infiltrated the nightmares of an entire generation of children and has even inspired one of the most well known “creepypastas” on the Internet.

2013 November 14, Joey Dussault, “The 10 Best Original Soundtracks In The Gaming World”, in Tastemakers Magazine (Northeastern University), number 33, page 11:

A friend pointed her to Creepypasta, a collection of user-generated horror fan sites in which written, Photoshopped, and videotaped accounts of encounters with monsters and supernatural evil are presented as “real” in the form of encyclopedia entries, testimonials, and other “documentary” evidence.

2015 August 24, Lisa Miller, “Slender Man Is Watching”, in New York Magazine, page 62:

(Internet slang) Frightening urban legends and short stories in the horror genre, circulated on the Internet.


websurf

en-verb

websurf (third-person singular simple present websurfs, present participle websurfing, simple past and past participle websurfed)

websurfs (present singular third-person)
websurfing (participle present)
websurfed (participle past)
websurfed (past)

(Internet, neologism) To browse or peruse websites.


one for the road
one for the road#English

(Internet slang) Initialism of one for the road.


voken

[…] a Web portal that features voken-style campaigns.

2004, Keith J. Tuckwell, Canadian Marketing in Action, page 425:

He also had a key role in designing and building the eyeReturn Voken engine for online advertising and loyalty programs.

2005, Shaun Walker, Patrick J. Santry, Joe Brinkman, Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals, page xxi:

Hey, I was approached today asking^([sic]) about Voken ad's and if i knew how they were done.

2006, Spot3313, “Flash Voken Ads”, in macromedia.flash (Usenet):

pop-up advertisement
pop-up advertisement

(Internet) A pop-up advertisement that is displayed over the top of the content but without spawning a separate window.


brochureware

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(Internet) Promotional material converted directly from existing printed brochures into a website, and thus lacking interactive features.


clunge

en-noun

clunge (countable and uncountable, plural clunges)

A nonsense word in a rant by McBlane (actor Joseph Brady) in the third series of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin as "ap yer clunge!" ("up your clunge"). Probably invented by writer David Nobbs to mean "arse".
Popularised by British television series The Inbetweeners (from 2008).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:clunge.

(UK, vulgar, slang, chiefly Internet) Vulva or vagina.

(UK, vulgar, slang, chiefly Internet, originally but now rare) Arse.


seapunk

seapunk (countable and uncountable, plural seapunks)

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From sea + -punk; compare earlier cyberpunk, steampunk. Coined by Brooklyn-based DJ Lil Internet, who tweeted about a surreal dream he had in June 2011 ("Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be"), and later popularized as a Twitter hashtag.

Seapunk's aqueous adherents, mostly in the Midwest but spreading fast […] have been characterized as goth mermaids, which certainly captures the look and feel: think turquoise-dyed hair and an embrace of all things oceanic, yay for steampunk jellyfish outfits.

2012 January 10, Marke B., “Mermaids vs. unicorns”, in San Francisco Bay Guardian:

Many thought this understandably short-lived meme had died a watery death in 2011, but when Rihanna took to Saturday Night Live to perform Diamonds recently, with a full-on seapunk-influenced production, it got a new lease of life.

2012 December 14, Lucy Stehlik, “Seapunk: scenester in-joke or underground art movement?”, in The Guardian:

She also lashed out at Azealia Banks, who dropped an explicitly seapunk video the same week, but Azealia's fine in my books. She’s always been into seapunk stuff, she “came from the internet” unlike Rihanna, she actually commits to and genuinely engages with the seapunk visuals (e.g riding dolphins) and they at least somewhat fit her song and attitude.

2013, Cameron Welch, "That's That Shit I Don't Like: The Year in Wackness", The Phoenix (UBCO), 7 January 2013, page 11 (online version)

(aesthetic, uncountable) A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.

(neologism, countable) A follower of the seapunk style.


cyberpath

He was “mentoring” me, but he really was an opportunist, a cyberpath, an extreme narcissist. He dumped me, and I've finally kicked his influence.

2011, Joan Price, Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex, page 130:


talk page

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The desire to fix something wrong—in this case, articles that have not kept up with the times—is meant to play out on an article’s “Talk page,” a companion page dedicated to discussing edits.

2023 January 22, Noam Cohen, “The Culture Wars Look Different on Wikipedia”, in The Atlantic:

(wiki jargon) A place on wiki websites where discussion of an entry or article takes place.

diskussionsside

place on wikis where discussion of a page takes place


kibozer

(Internet slang) One who kibozes; one who searches for references to his/her own name in order to post follow-ups.


JAX-RS

(computing, Internet) Abbreviation of Java API for RESTful Web Services.


tripcode

From trip + code - 'trip' is an abbreviation of '1人用（ひとりよう）キャップ' - hitori-you kyappu - which translates to 'cap for one'.

(Internet) The hash code of a password, used for signing posts anonymously on imageboards.


chatiquette

Each chat room functions in accordance with its own rules. They may be written rules in the form of chatiquette. Chatiquette prescribes what behavior is frowned upon and what the sanctions are.

2006, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media:

As long as no one causes any offence to others in the room, and adheres ^([sic]) to the basic rules of 'chatiquette', they can then remain in that room for as long as they wish, or until everyone else has left the room.

2012, Yvonne Jewkes, Dot.cons, page 175:

Chatiquette is similar to netiquette in terms of the words and behavior acceptable while participating in a chat room.

2013, Irene Joos, Ramona Nelson, Marjorie J. Smith, Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals, page 479:

Never forget that a bipolar chat room has also its own rules, chatiquette, and guidelines. It is very important to understand it.

(Internet) The etiquette dictating how one should behave in chat rooms.


vlogging

(Internet) The keeping of a vlog (video weblog).


blogorrhea

Blend of blog + logorrhea, or possibly blog and diarrhea.

Most blogs fail because beginning bloggers don't understand that it's difficult to come up with new content day in and day out. Sure, it's easy enough to post a "Didn't do anything today" lament or a "Don't feel like writing today" sigh. But post too much of this content-free blogorrhea—or, sin of sins in the blogging community, don't post at all for long periods—and your blog is as good as dead.

2004, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 237:

It’s a surprisingly robust masthead, considering that the entire operation produces about 1,500 words a day—barely a peep in the days of unrelieved blogorrhea and Web-wide word bloat.

2006 May 1, Michael Idov, “How Sweet Is It?”, in New York:

Not every blogger writes confessional kiss-and-tell posts or records the dinner menu—the blogosphere is not all blogorrhea and mystery meat.

2009, Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 166:

stream-of-consciousness
stream of consciousness

(Internet, slang) Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial matters.


didcap

Blend of DID (short for damsel in distress) and vidcap.

(Internet, informal) A vidcap depicting a damsel in distress.


bacn

Coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2, 2007, modelled on spam (junk mail, or a meat product) and bacon.

Examples of bacn email are: bank statement notifications, e-news alerts from companies, newsletters ...

2008, Bill Young, Webplicity 2.0: The Critical Guide to Successful Web Strategies, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 100:

5 dump your bacn This is the term for e-mail newsletters you've subscribed to. Kill them off Monday morning. A study by MessageGate estimates up to 30 percent of e-mails are bacn.

2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134:

In other words, they're messages that you want to read eventually, just not right now. Clearing away the bacon automatically can help you drill down to what's important more quickly.

2010, Gina Trapani, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 35:

Rather than let bacn accumulate and ruin an otherwise pleasant day, ...

2011, Ryan Teeter, Karl Barksdale, Google Apps for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

The smart labels feature essentially focuses on "bacn," that brand of e-mail that people subscribe to and generally want to read -- but don't have time for right now.

2011 March 9, John D. Sutter, “Google 'smart labels' aim to de-stress e-mail”, in CNN, retrieved 2013-03-16:

(Internet, informal) Non-spam email messages that have been signed up for, but which the recipient does not necessarily want or have time to read.


animutation

animutation (countable and uncountable, plural animutations)

Think you're cool sayin' "All Your Base"? / Get that Xiao Xiao outta my face / You gotta be kidding me with that crap / Animutation's where it's at

2003 April 5, Neil Cicierega (lyrics and music), “Hyakugojyuuichi 2003”, in Clown Circus, performed by Lemon Demon:

It's no fun to watch animutations when the music doesn't even line up! I think this is a performance issue[…]

2003, Greg Courville, “Flash Player”, in alt.linux (Usenet):

Animutation is satire, irony, and social criticism […]

2009, Marcel Danesi, X-rated!: the power of mythic symbolism in popular culture, page 109:

He is also the creator of a genre of Flash animation known as animutation.

2011, Greg Jarboe, YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day:

(Internet) A form of Web-based computer animation characterized by unpredictable montages of pop culture images set to music.


shitpost

BTW, that was an extremely annoying SHITpost. If you want to send people ecrypted messages why don't you try direct e-mail?

1994 July 16, Psyched, “RE:pbmtofig1.0.tar.Z”, in comp.graphics (Usenet), retrieved 2018-01-11, message-ID <925.47617813.InfoPort@infoport.com>:

How is it, all you *would be* flame *specialists*, have to bring a sexual dimension into your shitpost.

1996 October 29, BINKy [username], “Re: I'm getting bored”, in alt.life.sucks (Usenet):

Every time you see a "here's how to get rich" shitpost, put some cash in the bank. After 6 months, marvel at how much you've suddenly managed to save.....

2001 January 27, Eddie, “But this is better”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):

It'll make the newsgroups much easier to navigate when you don't see shitposts all over the place.

2008 November 12, CHUCK_key, “Re: 145 days of Nostra”, in alt.music.judas-priest (Usenet):

(Internet slang, vulgar, derogatory) A worthless or superficially meaningless post on a message board, newsgroup, or other online discussion platform, often intended to derail or distract from relevant conversation.

(Internet slang, humorous) A seemingly worthless or superficially meaningless image, video or piece of text posted to a social media platform that is intended to be humorously or ironically enjoyed.


keyboard smash

keyboard smash (plural keyboard smashes)

Schlachthofbronx – no, that wasn’t a keyboard smash of excitement at seeing M.I.A. Live, that was just the name of her support act, […]

2010 November 15, Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, “Gigs this week 15.11.10”, in Leeds Student:

All of my attempted heartfelt, nod-worthy and Amen-pulling sentences get interrupted with keyboard smashes. "The Pirates, for the first time in two decades, came so close to a winning season they jksdfj welkfjaf;lkjawe;flk awef;lkwejfj--"

2012 October, Virginia Montanez, “Oh the Humanity!”, in Pittsburgh Magazine:

In fact, half the time the lyrics are distinctly English, other times Rønnenfelt’s accent makes it sound like he’s attempting to enunciate a keyboard smash.

2013, Kate Clark, "Iceage holds nothing back on sophomore album", The North Wind (Northern Michigan University), 21 February 2013

(Internet slang) A seemingly random and unintelligible string of characters, as produced by smashing a keyboard.


videobombing

(Internet) The practice or phenomenon of making an unexpected appearance in a video, especially with the deliberate intention of ruining it.


XSD

XML Schema Definition
w:XML Schema Definition

(computing, Internet) Initialism of XML Schema Definition.


CXF

(computing, Internet, initialism) Apache Celtix and XFire project names, which is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework.


social sharing

2012, social sharing, Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press.
mobile technology and social sharing have reshaped the media industry in recent years

(Internet, neologism) The general practice of sharing content from the internet on social media websites or applications.


overlink

en-verb

overlink (third-person singular simple present overlinks, present participle overlinking, simple past and past participle overlinked)

overlinks (present singular third-person)
overlinking (participle present)
overlinked (participle past)
overlinked (past)

(Internet, transitive) To use too many hyperlinks.


classful

Classful routing protocols do not carry subnet masks; classless routing protocols do.

2002, Ravi Malhotra, IP Routing, page 101:

(computing, Internet) Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.


the cake is a lie

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From the 2007 video game Portal, in which a self-aware computer, GLaDOS, lures the player into participating in dangerous experiments with the promise of cake. As the game progresses, the player discovers graffiti left by the only previous test subject to survive GLaDOS' murderous scheme, including the warning "the cake is a lie".

The jokes are cake, and the cake is a lie — fan-service tricking nerds into watching a show designed for adults who vote Republican (Middle America!).

2011 December 15, Nick Martin, “A Hit Sitcom In Just Five Easy Steps!”, in Buzz Weekly, page 6:

The assumption that a degree will vastly improve future earnings is increasingly misleading. By their very nature high paid jobs are exclusive and limited in number. "The cake is a lie."

2012, James Margeson, "The quiet assault on public education", The Sphinx (University of Liverpool), March 2012, page 9

“One shitty leader doesn't mean the cake is a lie. One man's decisions don't invalidate everything else—the ideals, the history, the words etched in marble and the sacrifices of all the people who make the United States a just and safe place to live.”

2012 November 12, J. L. Hilton, Stellarnet Prince, Carina Press, →ISBN, page 320:

(Internet slang) The end being pursued is unattainable or misguided; the reward promised is false.


link bait

From link + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).

af

Sustainable link bait is rooted in quality content.

2007, Amelia Painter, Opening and Operating a Bed & Breakfast in the 21st Century, page 183:

A good link bait tool will create 'brand evangelists' — people who will talk positively about you.

2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0:

Link bait content is typically written about a hot, real-time topic such as breaking news.

2011, Susan Gunelius, Content Marketing For Dummies, page 53:

I've seen link bait succeed in the form of a downloadable scientific research paper, and I've seen it succeed in the form of a picture of a golden retriever in a tutu.

(Internet marketing) Articles, infographics, videos, and other content on websites created as part of a strategy to attract links and go viral.

Many bloggers write false story headings about search topics that are trending as well, resulting in high bounce rates, abandonment by subscribers, and raising the ire of other bloggers in the industry. You should never write false headings or try to manipulate your readers with link bait.

2010, Douglas Karr, Chantelle Flannery, Corporate Blogging For Dummies, page 384:

Link bait is content or a feature on a website that is expressly designed to get users' attention so they click through to another website.

2014, Sunni Brown, The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently:

There is also content that appears on the bottom of many websites with link bait type headlines like, "See the Dinner Hack that Millennials are Crazy for."

2017, Jayne Barnett, Advertising Nuggets:

Further black hat examples could be misleading link bait from ads for poorly targeted news articles, clicking on links spawning extra windows, or simply only dealing with robots (in a shady way).

2017, Anne Ahola Ward, The SEO Battlefield, page 22:

(Internet marketing, nonstandard) Provocative headlines designed specifically to persuade people to click or share by using loaded terminology (e.g. incredible, secret, shocking, unbelievable), posing provocative questions, or tying themselves in to hot topics.


pseudoselector

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But some elements are not necessarily found in the document markup, such as which links have been visited or the first line of a paragraph. To apply style to these instances in a document, CSS provides several pseudoselectors.

2009, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference:

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) A kind of selector that identifies something not explicitly labelled in the document markup.


my body is ready

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From an impromptu comment made by Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime while volunteering to try the Wii Balance Board during a demonstration of Wii Fit at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2007.

I noticed many innuendos that the general children’s audience may not pick up; “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” with Nala and Simba? I sure did, especially when she gave Simba the “my body is ready” face towards the end of the song.

2011, Phaedra Brady, "Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful flick", The Eye (Palm Harbor University High School), 3 October 2011

My grand idea is to slip the handsome James Dean look-alike in my History class a note that says "My body is ready, do me."

2012, Tanya Paz, "February Goes Down The Shitter", The Union Weekly (California State University, Long Beach), Volume 70, Issue 4, 13 February 2012, page 4

Then I found Trent University. Having heard rumours that it was "the gayest school in Canada", I burned with a newfound resolve – the conviction that this was the time and place where I would finally grow to be more than a straight young white guy. Finally I would go beyond the existence of a one-dimensional character in a pre-1960's middle class novel about the racial majority.
Introductory Seminar Week: my body is ready. This is it. This is when everyone lets loose. I can't let this opportunity slip away… […]

2013, Flavius S. Mercurius, "Coming Out of the Closet: A Story", Arthur (Trent University), Volume 47, Issue 13 (satire edition), 7 January 2013

(chiefly Internet slang) Used to express preparation for and excitement over something, especially sex.

Electronic Entertainment Expo
Wii Balance Board


kill it with fire

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Presumably a reference to the trope of using fire to kill a monster in horror, science fiction, and fantasy, with a notable example being the 1982 film The Thing.

'Look at this! IS GAY THE NEW STRAIGHT? Jesus – she's like a one woman crap factory. Kill it! Kill it with fire!'

2005, Anna Clare, Make You a Man, Black Lace, →ISBN, page 14:

But we need to give STL [file format] a headshot. We should kill it. Kill it with fire. Whatever switching costs you may have they will pay for themselves in money saved in storage.

2013 July, Joris Peels, “AMF is no longer only for bowling”, in TCT Magazine, page 15:

For me, the victor is the film adaption, which is a masterpiece of one man's conversion. As for the book? Kill it with fire.

2020 January 16, Patrick Ullmer, “The Stack-Up: 'The Hunter'”, in The Spectrum, North Dakota State University, page 7:

(Internet slang) Used to express fear, disgust, or strong objection in reaction to something.


tweetfest

From tweet (“to post an update to Twitter”) + -fest.

suffix

In a scripted tweetfest, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger questioned Armstrong about his possible participation. Armstrong tweeted, "Absolutely!@schwarzenegger, I've decided to ride the #Amgen Tour of California in 2010. Can't wait. What about you @levileipheimer??"

2009 October 23, Diane Pucin, “Lance Armstrong to ride in the Tour of California”, in Los Angeles Times:

Old School was on parade late yesterday morning in a conference room on the second floor of the downtown Sheraton here. Seventy-six-year-old Commissioner Bud Selig, on the job almost 20 years, was on hand to answer questions for the Baseball Writers of America and it felt like we were all stuck in the 1950s.
[…]
This was no new-media tweetfest. If lodge members had been better-dressed and better-looking, we could have been on the set of “Mad Men.’’

2011 July 13, Dan Shaughnessy, “Not a lot of budging by Selig”, in Boston Globe:

Had Kerry Katona been snapped getting throttled by her partner outside a Toby Carvery in Warrington, and stayed silent, I’m sure there’d have been a tweetfest about Little Miss Thickoe betraying her gender by failing to report the Neanderthal scumbag.

2013 June 20, Brian Reade, “Nigella Lawson pictures show it's time for real men to man up”, in The Mirror, UK:

(slang, Internet) An episode of frenzied and/or mass tweeting.


ermahgerd

From a humorously altered pronunciation of oh my God. Popularized by an image macro meme in 2012, which features the text "ermahgerd, Gersberms" overlaid on a photo of a teenage girl making a silly face and holding several Goosebumps books. The girl in the photo has a visible orthodontic retainer. The pronunciation spelling is intended to mimic the speech of a wearer of this device.

PLUS (please brace yourselves, fangirls) he's coming to play at the Perth Arena in a few months – ermahgerd.

2012 October 24, “Livin' A Teenage Dream”, in X-Press Magazine, number 1341, page 11:

Here's a scary thought: I'm a Canadian citizen over 18 years of age and I have lived in Saskatoon for more than three months and in Saskatchewan for more than six months. What does this mean? I can run for mayor. Ermahgerd!

2012 October 25, Travis Homenuk, “Let's all run for mayor”, in The Sheaf, volume 104, number 8, University of Saskatchewan, page 16:

Is that an Alber Elbaz pink-bubblegum macaron you're eating? Ermahgerd! You are so last year.

2013 March 3, Robert Epstein, “Being Modern: Macarons”, in The Independent:

(slang, humorous or sarcastic) Alternative form of oh my God.


blogware

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It also doesn't hurt that, with blogware such as Google's Blogger.com, everything is ready and set up for you to start without delay.

2009, Martin Harwood, Michael Harwood, Landing Page Optimization For Dummies:

(Internet) Software that is designed for facilitating the creation of blogs.


metasearch engine

en-noun

metasearch engine (plural metasearch engines)

(Internet) A system that displays aggregated results from several search engines, invoked simultaneously


Doctor Google

Alluding to the Google search engine being the surname of a medical professional.

Using “Dr Google” for health purposes is controversial. Some have expressed concerns that it can lead to inaccurate diagnoses, bad advice on where to seek treatment (triage), and increased anxiety (cyberchondria).

2021 March 29, Natalie Grover, “Looking up health symptoms online less harmful than thought, study says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Internet, informal) The Internet when used to seek out medical advice.


Twitter

→ Chinese: 推特 (Tuītè)

→ Dutch: Twitter

→ German: Twitter

→ French: Twitter

→ Georgian: ტვიტერი (ṭviṭeri)

→ Italian: Twitter

→ Japanese: ツイッター

→ Korean: 트위터 (teuwiteo)

→ Norwegian: Twitter

→ Polish: Twitter

→ Portuguese: Twitter

→ Russian: Тви́ттер (Tvítter)

→ Spanish: Twitter

→ Ukrainian: Тві́тер (Tvíter)

From twitter (“to utter a succession of chirps”).

(trademark) An online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages (280 characters; originally 140); officially known as X since 2023.


Twitter

I've lost the password to my Twitter.

(Internet, informal) A user account belonging to the above service.

There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter. But Twitter and TV went together like extreme weather and marine predators.

2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:

(Internet, informal, usually in combination) A community on Twitter.


Twitter

en-verb

Twitter (third-person singular simple present Twitters, present participle Twittering, simple past and past participle Twittered)

Twitters (present singular third-person)
Twittering (participle present)
Twittered (participle past)
Twittered (past)

2009 March 2, Justin Rebello, “Eight top-notch tips for the Twittering attorney"”, in Wisconsin Law Journal, retrieved 2009-03-02:

2009 February 23, MSNBC, “Stars can’t stop Twittering at Oscars, parties”, in Access Hollywood, retrieved 2009-03-02:

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, sometimes proscribed) To tweet; to post an update to Twitter.


crapplication

By contrast, I've never seen a Windows machine perform well after being on for more than about 5 or 6 days straight; if it doesn't outright crash, it loses all of its memory and has to be restarted, PLUS it is susceptible to the same hardware lockups, power failures and crapplications as Linux is.

1999, William Wueppelmann, “How to downgrade to Windows 95?? Win 98 HATES my guts.”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):

Most people don't realize how many background crapplications they have running thanks to the different stuff that they have installed.

2002, n3kkb0, “Rocksim and WindowsXP”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):

(computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality application.


scorefile

(computing, Internet) A file containing criteria for assigning a score to each email message received, for purposes of filtering out spam, etc.


miniblog

Some of the social media such as Twitter can be exploited to get out the miniblogs that generate a constant stream of news about schools and districts.

2011, David Carroll, Susan Rovezzi Carroll, Marketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support:

To offer another example, Amazon.com uses interactive tools to create communities of users that connect similar individual interests with related products using miniblogs, videos, and user chats.

2011, William Aspray, Barbara M. Hayes, Everyday Information:


pseudodomain

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The anonymity network Tor has a top-level pseudodomain .onion for hidden services, which can only be reached with a Tor client.

(Internet) A nonexistent top-level domain that is assigned a meaning in certain specialized contexts.


blogring

(Internet) A kind of webring connecting blogs.


Internet of Things

The Internet of Things as an emerging global Internet-based information architecture facilitating the exchange of goods and services is gradually developing. While the technology of the Internet of Things is still being discussed […]

2010, Rolf H. Weber, Romana Weber, Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN:

Finally, I want to underscore that although it may be possible to image something like the “internet of things” without surveillance capitalism, it is impossible to image surveillance capitalism without something like the “internet of things.”

2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 7, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

An Internet-like structure connecting everyday physical objects equipped with RFID or similar tags.


YouTubular

en-adj

YouTubular (comparative more YouTubular, superlative most YouTubular)

more YouTubular (comparative)
most YouTubular (superlative)

I'm shooting my next film in my living room as I type, and I'll see everyone next week, right here, with another crazy tale of YouTubular adventure.

2008 January, Andrew Struthers, “A Feisty One Online”, in Tofino Time, page 21:

More recently, Spectres of the Spectrum presented another YouTubular conspiracy rant — about fair use and corporate control of media technology and copyright law, also dealt with in his early internet-age Ecstasy of Influence-predicting docu-essay Sonic Outlaws — within the framework of a far-out D.I.Y. sci-fi movie.

2009, Mark, "Mock Up on Mu", L Magazine, 14 January 2009

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog where we will find out which YouTubular acts will be moving on into the semi-finals.

2010 August 11, Sarah Kickler Kelber, “'America's Got Talent': YouTube semifinalists revealed”, in Baltimore Sun:

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

youtubowy

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube


untweetable

untweetable (comparative more untweetable, superlative most untweetable)

more untweetable (comparative)
most untweetable (superlative)

And some recipes are just untweetable, like lobster Thermidor, which calls for 26 ingredients and 32 steps. Twitter can’t handle too many instructions like “pour the cognac in and boil for a minute or two, shaking the skillet.”

2009 August 5, Michael Hill, “Tweet and potatoes: Recipes get scrunched”, in The State Journal-Register:

The opener, Cardona's Light Conversation, was anything but -- Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos dancing mostly to a recording of a dense conversation about Kierkegaard's philosophy and other untweetable subjects.

2010 January 6, Jordan Levin, “Disabled dancers heat up Winterfest”, in Miami Herald:

For an Amy or a Gaga that’s all fine – there’s a whiff of cordite there – but for someone who makes The Jonas Brothers look like Megadeth, it’s just dreadfully untweetable.

2010 November 12, Brian Boyd, “Revolver”, in Irish Times:

(Internet) Not capable or worthy of being communicated via the Twitter microblogging service.


memedom

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In celebration of all the treasured gems that are internet memedom, a group of Harvard folks are throwing what’s bound to blow up into the the^([sic]) biggest nerdfest outside of a Star Trek Convention.

2007 December 7, Jenna Wortham, “Famous Internet Memes to Gather at ROFLCon 2008”, in Wired:

An inventive joke born of Internet memedom.

2012 March 28, Katherine Boyle, “Peeps Show VI: Power to the Peeps”, in The Washington Post:

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has one of his top aides to thank for uttering the words that would secure his place in memedom.

2012 December 29, Samantha Rollins, “The 11 best memes of 2012”, in The Week:


kink meme

Kink memes are generally hosted on the blogging platforms Dreamwidth or LiveJournal, which have comment structures that allow for specific requests to be put up and responded to in a linked manner.

2018, Rukmini Pande, Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race, page 166:

Noticeably, most of these kinkmeme prompts revolve around Sherlock and John's sexual/romantic relationship in one form or another.

2019, Christiana Gregoriou, "The Fandom Is Afoot: BBC Sherlock and Its Fanfiction at Play", in Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era (Christiana Gregoriou, David Platten, & Gigliola Sulis), unnumbered page

It was originally published in late 2010 in response to a request on the Supernatural kinkmeme.

2021, Milena Popova, Dubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent, page 45:

(fandom slang) An online space in which requests for fan fiction (generally involving a specific kink) are posted and fulfilled anonymously.


delurk

en-verb

delurk (third-person singular simple present delurks, present participle delurking, simple past and past participle delurked)

delurks (present singular third-person)
delurking (participle present)
delurked (participle past)
delurked (past)

(intransitive, Internet) To reveal oneself, after lurking; to establish a presence on an online newsgroup, forum, etc.


an hero

/æn ˈhɪəɹəʊ/

Originated as a meme on the /b/ board of the 4chan community. Inspired by a grammatical error in a poem written and posted by a classmate to the MySpace memorial page of a teenager who committed suicide in 2006.

In the clip, Dave Mustaine (our hero of the story, yet not yet "an hero") is shown recording "Through the Darkest Hour" a song about wanting to kill yourself because your bird left you.

2007 August 10, the_boy_blunder [username], “Fiddildy Fucking Dee, it's enough to make you not want to kill yourself”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

Some of us were beginning to think you'd made yourself into "an hero" for Christmas, but I always knew you'd be back.

2008 December 24, Alex Clark, “Re: Tom Cruise on Kimmel last night”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

I like how I can tell someone that I want to become an hero and they have no idea that I'm talking about suicide.

2009 August 22, ., “BECOMING AN HERO”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet):

(Internet slang) A suicidee; one who commits suicide.


scambaiting

(Internet) The practice of posing as a potential victim of a scam, in order to waste the scammer's time and resources.

scambaiting

posing as a scam victim to waste the time of the scammer


dogpiler

(Internet) One who dogpiles; one of a group of posters who pile on another in criticism.


geo-blocking

From geo- + blocking or geo-block + -ing.

(computing, Internet) The use of geolocation software to deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries.


webtoon

From Web + toon, dating from at least 2001 (see citations). For Korean comics, likely a re-borrowing of Korean 웹툰 (weptun), itself from the original sense.

Have a webtoon! Elf Life: http://www.elflife.com

2001, 11 September, "Rob Cruickshank, part-time human being", Re: Strange ad copy of the day (on newsgroup alt.slack)

As Flash Webtoons and animated shorts have become more and more popular, a spate of tools have cropped up to facilitate their creation.

2006, Ethan Watrall, Norbert Herber, Flash MX 2004 Savvy, page 12:

Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi used Flash animation to bring cartoons (sometimes called online cartoons or webtoons) to the Internet.

2008, Don Rauf, Monique Vescia, Virtual Apprentice: Cartoon Animator, page 29:

More and more cartoons are made using special techniques with a lot of help from computers. Some people are making cartoons for the internet. These are called webtoons. You could make a webtoon, too.

2009, Caroline Nixon, Michael Tomlinson, Kid's Box 5 Pupil's Book: Book 5:

When it comes to Flash animated cartoons, also called webtoons, the first noted use was in 1999 when Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi set out to bring cartoons to the Web. Soon after, webtoons began popping up everywhere.

2010, Michael Duggan, PSP Game Creation for Teens, page 13:

(Internet) An animated cartoon published on the World Wide Web.


wikilawyering

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[…] comments like these about "Jew-baiting" are very rare on even the most contentious of "discussion" and "mediation" pages. What one finds there instead is wikilawyering — cryptic, acronym-laden debate invoking protocol and precedent.

2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent:

2008, Big Bad Bob, “Re: alt-hacker.org member busted for wikilawyering!”, in alt.hacker (Usenet):

What, and be buried in wikilawyering designed to keep actual subject matter experts out and leave wp safely in the hands of the wikieditor cliques?

2012, Graham Nye, “Four killed in US when train hits float carrying veterans”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

(Wikimedia jargon) Engaging in legalistic arguments on a wiki.


Mumsnetter

So keen are politicos to woo Mumsnetters that Gordon Brown did an online chat with the site a short while ago, and David Cameron is due to follow suit tomorrow.

2009 November 18, Helen Pidd, “Queen's Speech gets the Mumsnet treatment”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) A member of the Mumsnet parenting web site.


YouTube poop

en-noun

YouTube poop (countable and uncountable, plural YouTube poops)

/ˈjʉːt͡ʃʉːb pʉːp/

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YouTube + poop, with the word "poop" chosen to refer to the perceived low quality of the videos.

(Internet slang) On the video sharing site YouTube, a humorous or surreal video mashup made of clips from a television show, movie, other video, etc. with visual and auditory effects.


banner exchange

banner exchange (plural banner exchanges)

(Internet) A link exchange scheme where web sites display each other's banners.


clickbait

clickbait (countable and uncountable, plural clickbaits)

From click + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).

af

Fairfax's sites are renowned for what is sometimes called ‘clickbait’: headlines written to beguile passing eyeballs but which obscure nondescript or irrelevant stories.

2012, Gideon Haigh, The Deserted Newsroom, Penguin, →ISBN:

"His careful lawyerly writing would be out of fashion now", wrote one commenter after Kettle's piece. "It wasn't clickbait".

2013 September 29, Peter Preston, The Observer:

In August 2016, leaders at Facebook announced a plan to identify and limit clickbait, because the Facebook newsfeed goal is to “show people the stories most relevant to them.”

2017, Ted Kwartler, Text Mining in Practice with R, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

In comparison with algorithms used in the past, this SI based technique provided a better accuracy and a human interpretable set of rules to classify clickbaits

2019, Deepanshu Pandey, Garimendra Verma, Sushama Nagpal, “Clickbait Detection Using Swarm Intelligence”, in Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems:

(Internet marketing, derogatory) Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.

klikaas

content aimed at generating advertising revenue


TYT

(Internet) Initialism of The Young Turks.


PPC

en-noun

PPC (countable and uncountable, plural PPCs)

(Internet marketing) Initialism of pay-per-click.


manosphere

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

The Manosphere essentially is the counterpoint to the feminist doctrine (that empowers women at the expense of men). It is a free form community consisting primarily of men on the internet sharing experiences and thoughts with the intention of educating, empowering and improving the state of men and boys.

2014, Alex Peck, Average Married Dad's Guide to Health, Wealth, and a Sexy Marriage, page 84:

Incel is short for “involuntarily celibate”. The term rose to prominence because of its adoption by a subsection of the “manosphere”, a loose collection of movements united by misogyny that also includes some men’s rights activists, pick-up artists, and Mgtow/volcel – heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with women for political reasons.

2018, Alex Hern, Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?, The Guardian:

The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.

2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All:

(Internet, neologism) The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, the redpill movement or incels.


autokill

(Internet, IRC) A software setting that automatically disconnects a user whenever he/she attempts to connect.


clickbaity

en-adj

clickbaity (comparative more clickbaity, superlative most clickbaity)

more clickbaity (comparative)
most clickbaity (superlative)

That video title looks clickbaity.

[…] all I can wonder is, "How would the 'Like A Prayer' video have been received in the age of Twitter and SEO-happy music blogs trying to capitalize on the clickbaity ways of its plotline and the artist behind it?"

2011 May 5, Maura Johnston, “Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video: The Last Temptation Of Something-Or-Other”, in Village Voice:

"Clickbaity headlines are taking over the Web. Today, publishers make more money from quantity than quality. They're incentivized to manipulate lots of people into clicking on a headline instead of getting engaged readers," CentUp stated.

2014 January 8, David Griner, “Can You Spot the BS Headlines in This Clickbait Quiz? CentUp mocks the idiocy of today's hottest content”, in Adweek:

To put it another way: at the moment, Facebook assumes that people click on exactly the material that they want to click on, and that if it serves up a lot of clickbaity curiosity-gap headlines, then it’s giving its users what they want.

2014 February 3, Felix Salmon, “Viral math”, in Columbia Journalism Review:

Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.

2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.


picspam

en-noun

picspam (countable and uncountable, plural picspams)

I think it was lysachan's site that got me into the series -- her picspams are fun, (heavy on the Prentiss love).

2010 April 25, cyn########, “Re: [ASLM] Life under the moss-covered rock”, in alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated (Usenet):

Days, weeks, even months are spent in creating vids, picspams, icons, original art, and sometimes novel-length works of fiction.

2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 17:

[…] television and movie fans posting fan fiction on LiveJournal, fans of celebrities creating picspams on Tumblr, […]

2014, Francesca Coppa, “Pop Culture, Fans, and Social Media”, in Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa M. Senft, editors, The Social Media Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78:

(Internet, informal, countable) A post on a blog featuring a collection of pictures, generally of the same subject or from the same source.

Arg. Stupid life. Camera phone, though, woo. Prepare for mucho picspam of, I dunno, my bedroom or my feet or something.

2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 67:

Computers make creating and sharing picspam easy, but the power to pause, to stop time, and to frame one’s own still shots came with the rise of the VCR.

2009, Francesca Coppa, "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness", Cinema Journal, Volume 48, Number 4, Summer 2009, page 111

Long, and full of picspam... You have been warned!

2009 September 17, Kate XXXXXX, “Re: Part 3!”, in alt.sewing (Usenet):

(Internet, informal, uncountable) Such blog posts collectively.


nymwars

(Internet, neologism) Conflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using their real legal names.


autopatrolled

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(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) Having a status such that one's edits need not be checked, or patrolled, by other users.


dogecoin

dogecoin (countable and uncountable, plural dogecoins)

/ˈdəʊd͡ʒkɔɪn/

The success of ransomware could be attributed to wide adoption of digital currencies or crypto currencies, such as bitcoin, litecoin ukash, dogecoin, ripple and monero, among others.

2017 August 19, Roderick Abad, “Slow Internet speed helping PHL fend off cyber felons”, in Business Mirror:

The net worth of Markus and Palmer is unknown due to their tendency to stay off social media and online platforms. However, dogecoin was estimated to be worth almost $17billion as of April 14, 2021.

2021 April 16, Jacob Bentley-York, “Who are Dogecoin founders Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer?”, in The US Sun, retrieved 2021-04-28:

(uncountable, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.


let's play

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Originates from the titles of forum threads on the website Something Awful.

(Internet, video games) A video recording or comparable broadcast in which a person plays a video game while commenting on the gameplay.

Let's Play (video gaming)
Something Awful


aforelinked

If you'd read the aforelinked article, you wouldn't need to ask that question.

I don't think you noticed that the aforelinked page isn't at CNN.com. The real page (with the correct photo) is at: ¶ http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/18/obit.mccambridge.ap/index.html

2004 March 19, jayembee, “Actress that played "Harmony" on Buffy & Angel passes away”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

According to the aforelinked Reuters news story: […]

2006 July 24, David Berlind, “In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next?”, in ZDNET, archived from the original on 2021-05-14:

Fortunately, a brief adventure using .Mac sync chat support (found at the bottom of that aforelinked page) cleared up a repeating "merge/overwrite" sync dialog problem for me, and we felt the procedure was worth sharing.

2008 February 25, David Chartier, “How-To: Truly reset your .Mac sync data”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 2023-06-07:

(Internet, informal) Linked previously (in the current text).


pseudostreaming

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(Internet) The seeking of a portion of a streamed video that has not yet been downloaded


untrollable

en-adj

untrollable (comparative more untrollable, superlative most untrollable)

more untrollable (comparative)
most untrollable (superlative)

At any rate, this now leads me to a conundrum: If the soc.religion.* heirarchy is plagued with trolls and spam [how unKosher !], and if s.r.q is indeed the last unmoderated s.r.* group, then the s.r.* groups are now untrollable and unspammable, or is there a software work around for dedicated netpests ?

1997 November 9, David Rozen, “Re: No troll (Was: Re: Who is Oppressing Whom?)”, in soc.religion.quaker (Usenet):

Basically, it's an untrollable newsgroup since it's too difficult to be more outrageous than the normal traffic.

1999 August 26, China Blue, “Re: Went off on a handgun tangent...sorry”, in alt.silly.little.newsgroup (Usenet):

Now this I agree with; as Bill once said, we're all trolls here, which is why this is such an untrollable group.

2005 September 11, DE, “Re: defaults for printing dialog”, in alt.corel (Usenet):

(Internet) Not capable of, or suited to, being trolled.


wikiphobia

Wikiphobia arises out of some level of fear or dislike of the wiki.

2008, Stewart Mader, Wikipatterns, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:

Here Comes Everybody is as crisply argued and as enlightening a book about the internet as has been written. It might even cure your wikiphobia.

2008 March 28, Julian Dibbell, “Wikiphobia and Web 2.0”, in The Telegraph:

Understand the cultural shift that needs to occur – wikiphobia is real.

2011, Government of British Columbia, "UX Toolbox: Building Better Web for Citizens", page 76