current events

en-noun

current events pl (normally plural, singular current event)

Current affairs; those events and issues of interest currently found in the news.


watchlist

The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists.

The TSA provides the airlines with the “No Fly” and “Automatic Selectee” watchlists for use in identifying passengers who are to be denied boarding or who require additional scrutiny prior to boarding. The “No Fly” watchlist is a list of persons who are considered a direct threat to U.S. civil aviation.

2010, William J. Krouse, Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger Prescreening, page 11:

A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring.


accessibility

accessibility (usually uncountable, plural accessibilities)

From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.

The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]

2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 4:

(computing, web design) Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.

無障礙 /无障碍

feature that increases software usability


IRC

Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat#English

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Relay Chat.


IRC

en-verb

IRC (third-person singular simple present IRCs, present participle IRCing, simple past and past participle IRCed)

IRCs (present singular third-person)
IRCing (participle present)
IRCed (participle past)
IRCed (past)

<Xantha> <- irced 2 yrs without aliases […]

1995, Stuart Harris, The Irc Survival Guide:

[…] IRCing can confirm the observation that work and play appear to constitute a continuum for the digerati.

2002, James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market:

[…] not that this is strange or anything, I do the same thing myself when I'm IRCing — there're some real weirdos out there roaming the Net […]

2004, Allison Rushby, Friday Night Cocktails:

(intransitive, Internet, informal) To participate in Internet Relay Chat.


FTP

File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol#English

(Internet) Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet)


pseudo

From Middle English, derived from prefix pseudo-, itself derived from Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).

der

Issues such as verifiability (for age declared), anonymity (in spite of pseudos and avatars) and traceability are at stake[…]

2011, Divina Frau-Meigs, Media Matters in the Cultural Contradictions of the "Information Society", page 299:

(Internet, clipping) A pseudonym; a false name used for online anonymity.


bureaucrat

/ˈbjʊəɹəkɹæt/

/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/

One of three major processes is generally used: a bureaucrat review, a broader community review, or an approvals group review. As only local bureaucrats or Wikimedia stewards can grant the bot flag necessary to operate an authorized bot, the simplest method is to appeal directly to these individuals.

2014, Pnina Fichman, Noriko Hara, editors, Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 18:

(wiki jargon) A user on a wiki with the right to change user access levels.


FAQ

Abbreviation of frequently asked questions.

abbreviation of

This site's FAQ says you should log in to access some pages.

(Internet) A list of questions said to be frequently asked, and their answers.


PM

en-noun

PM (countable and uncountable, plural PMs)

Send me a PM if interested.

personal message
personal message#English

(Internet) Initialism of personal message.


PM

en-verb

PM (third-person singular simple present PMs, present participle PMing, simple past and past participle PMed)

PMs (present singular third-person)
PMing (participle present)
PMed (participle past)
PMed (past)

Coordinate term: IM (“instant message”)

PM me if you want more information.

(transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (someone).


AD

en-noun

AD (countable and uncountable, plural ADs)


google

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.

2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51:

An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.

գուգլ

Internet search performed on the Google search engine

搜索

Internet search performed on any search engine

The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.

(dated) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.


google

en-verb

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

googles (present singular third-person)
googling (participle present)
googled (participle past)
googled (past)

Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.

Have fun and keep googling!

1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 1999-10-09:

Willow: Have you googled her yet?
Xander: Willow! She's 17!
Willow: It's a search engine.

2002 October 15, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, “Help”, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 7, episode 4, spoken by Willow Rosenberg and Xander Harris (Alyson Hannigan and Nicholas Brendon):

Google it.

2002 December 13, Kevin Wade, Maid in Manhattan, spoken by Marisa (Jennifer Lopez):

Googling in search of an apology from the former Enron C.E.O. Kenneth Lay, I came up with a report in the newspaper Oil Daily headlined "Lay apologizes." But tel me if you can find any remorse in his actual words: […]

2002 December 28, Bill Keller, “Who’s sorry now?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-23, page A-19:

To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.

googloj

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine

I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.

(by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.

hakea

to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine

His name googles.

(intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.

löytyä netistä

to be locatable in a search of the Internet


DOS

Alternative form: DoS

denial of service
denial of service#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.


HTML

Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language#English

Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language.


webmaster

A person responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining a website or websites.

gwiasvester

the person responsible for maintaining a website


avatar

→ Japanese: アバター

Avatar (Hinduism)
Chip Morningstar
LucasArts
Neal Stephenson
Randy Farmer
Shadowrun
Snow Crash
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
pen and paper

First use appears c. 1784, in The Hindu Wife; or, The Enchanted Fruit, by William Jones. Borrowed from Hindustani अवतार / اوتار (avtār), from Sanskrit अवतार (avatāra, “descent of a deity from a heaven”), a compound of अव (ava, “off, away, down”) and the vṛddhi-stem of the root √तॄ (√tṝ, “to cross”). In the computing sense, some use appeared in video games in the 1980s, such as the online roleplaying game Habitat (1985) by Lucasfilm Games (today LucasArts), by Chip Morningstar and Randy Farmer, later versions of the Ultima series (following religious use in Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)), and the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun (1989). Also popularized by the novel Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson.

أَفَاتَار

The people are pieces of software called avatars. They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.

1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, pages 35–36:

A virtual intelligence is an advanced form of user interface software. VIs use a variety of methods to simulate natural conversation, including an audio interface and an avatar personality to interact with.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Computers: Virtual Intelligence (VI) Codex entry:

Devices now track and record our every move and, whether we like it or not, each one of us will bequeath to posterity a virtual avatar, a digital being whose calls, messages, transactions, loves and losses will live on in a vast, unregulated cyberspace. The afterlife has arrived, at least for our cyberbeings.

2013 November 27, Roger Cohen, “The past in our future”, in The New York Times:

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulation

(Internet, video games) A complex and dynamic digital representation of a person or being in the form of a digital model, used online as a simulation or emulation of a person, or as a person's online alter ego, in a virtual world, virtual chat room, or metaverse.

Coordinate term: icon

en:an instantiation digitally with a simulacrum

(Internet, video games) A simple and static or nearly static digital representation of a person or being in the form of a small digital object, used online as a simulacrum or token of a person or that person's online alter ego, in any digital environment but especially in nonvirtual, nonmetaversal ones.


wireless

en-noun

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)

If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

(uncountable, networking) Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

безжично свързване

wireless connectivity to a computer network


robot

desc

→ Arabic: رُوبُوت (rūbūt), رُوبُوط (rūbūṭ)

→ Hindi: रोबोट (roboṭ)

→ Japanese: ロボット (robotto)

→ Korean: 로봇 (robot)

→ Persian: رُبات (robât), روبات (rôbât)

→ Swahili: roboti

→ Welsh: robot

Internet Archive
Josef Čapek
Karel Čapek
R.U.R.

Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef, and taken into English without change.

(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).


mobile

→ Japanese: モバイル (mobairu)

→ Kurtöp: མོ་བའིལ (mobail)

→ Persian: موبایل (mobâil)

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mōbilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from moveō (“move”).

der

there are many business opportunities in mobile

(uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.


network

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-der.
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
Compound of net + work.

etymon

filtered-popping recursive transition network

The copy machine is connected to the network so it can now serve as a printer.

(computing, Internet) Multiple computers and other devices connected together to share information

netwerk

multiple computers and other devices connected together


add

en-verb

add (third-person singular simple present adds, present participle adding, simple past and past participle added)

adds (present singular third-person)
adding (participle present)
added (participle past)
added (past)
add (infinitive)

From Middle English adden, from Latin addō (“add, give unto”), from ad (“to”) + dō (“give”).

(transitive, Internet, text messaging, video games) To add someone as a friend.


smiley

emoticon

characters that representation an emotion

(Internet) A sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood; especially :) or :-) or other depictions of smiling.


inc

(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of incoming.


ID

en-noun

ID (countable and uncountable, plural IDs)

(Internet) Initialism of image description.


wall

From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”).
Perhaps conflated with waw (“a wall within a house or dwelling, a room partition”), from Middle English wawe, from Old English wāg, wāh (“an interior wall, divider”), see waw.
Cognate with North Frisian wal (“wall”), Saterland Frisian Waal (“wall, rampart, mound”), Dutch wal (“wall, rampart, embankment”), German Wall (“rampart, mound, embankment”), Swedish vall (“mound, wall, bank”). More at wallow, walk.

cog

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

throw things at the wall and see what sticks

(Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.


war

en-noun

war (countable and uncountable, plural wars)

From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre, wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Old Northern French werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period.
Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”),
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.

cog

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 painting)

flame war... edit war...

(countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly

(Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.


web browser

(Internet) A computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web, chiefly by viewing web pages and following hyperlinks.

webblaaier

a computer program used to navigate the World Wide Web


supersede

From Middle French superseder (“postpone, defer”), from Latin supersedēre, from super (“over”) + sedēre (“to sit”). The meaning “to replace” is from 1642, probably by association with unrelated precede – note that c instead of s (from cēdere (“to yield”), not sedēre (“to sit”)). As a result, supercede is a common misspelling – see therein for further discussion. Doublet of surcease.

der

Rogue cancels and supersedes are being issued on a large scale against posters.

(Internet) An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.


ICQ

Pun on the pronunciation of "I seek you."

ICQ was unusual among instant-messaging systems because it used what is called peer-to-peer technology—ICQ users essentially communicated with each other directly, without having all their messages pass through a central server.

2005, Laura Lambert, Chris Woodford, Christos J. P. Moschovitis, The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 136:

(Internet) A program allowing users to send each other instant messages via the Internet.


ICQ

en-verb

ICQ (third-person singular simple present ICQs, present participle ICQing, simple past and past participle ICQed)

ICQs (present singular third-person)
ICQing (participle present)
ICQed (participle past)
ICQed (past)

"My friends ICQ me before they call me just to make sure I'm there," said Kurera, a 19-year-old sophomore […]

2000 January 14, Greg Miller, “Ethernet Is Changing Dorm Life”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30:

I'll log-on in Hawaii. If needed we can ICQ from there.

2002, Mike Savage, Lake Effect, Savage Press, →ISBN, page 94:

It shut him up. Never had him ICQ me again.

2004, Michael C. Westwood, Meeting the President, →ISBN, page 94:

(transitive, Internet) To send an instant message to (someone) using ICQ.


slashdot

slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)

slashdots (present singular third-person)
slashdotting (participle present)
slashdotted (participle past)
slashdotted (past)

After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.

2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596003307&id=t295L6vYuUkC&pg=PA501&lpg=PA501&dq=slashdotted&sig=rF5IZDXp33wnnsgkRIC5niMtqHM
If these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted).

[2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595383157&id=skVK4smqz8UC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=slashdotted&sig=z6LagXUGvJ09gG77HdLoLSEnFAk
And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.

2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0596007248&id=5yiULnTkN6oC&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=slashdotted&sig=_zJmLeVMfDyEAAt8FhAl6NZcrVA
Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.

2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando https://web.archive.org/web/20080519054317/http://www.accelerando.org/_static/accelerando.html
Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.

(computing, Internet, dated) To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.


point

point (third-person singular simple present points, present participle pointing, simple past and past participle pointed)

points (present singular third-person)
pointing (participle present)
pointed (participle past)
pointed (past)

From Middle English pointen, poynten, from Old French pointier, pointer, poynter, from point from Latin pūnctum.

(transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.


radio

en-noun

radio (countable and uncountable, plural radios)

desctree

→ Japanese: ラジオ (rajio)
→ Hokkien: la-jí-o͘h

→ Malay: radio

desc

→ Hokkien: (Malaysia, Singapore) 黎撩 (lê-liô)

emergency position indicating radio beacon

(Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.


router

→ Japanese: ルーター, ルータ

→ Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.

(Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.


eleven

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

der

A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!

B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

(Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.


board

en-noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

→ Japanese: ボード (bōdo)

From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerdʰ- (“to cut”). The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table."

inh

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

en:clipping of blackboard, surfboard, or others

Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), bulletin board, etc.


ask

From Middle English asken (also esken, aschen, eschen, etc.), from Old English āscian, from Proto-West Germanic *aiskōn, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys- (“to wish; request”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian aaskje (“to ask, demand, require”), West Frisian easkje (“to ask, demand, require”), Dutch eisen (“to demand, require”), German heischen (“to ask, request, implore”), Russian иска́ть (iskátʹ), Sanskrit इच्छति (iccháti) (whence Hindi ईछना (īchnā).

cog

African-American Vernacular, Cajun, Nigeria, proscribed

ax

alternative pronunciation until about 1600, now dialectal and no longer standard

Answering 'asks' like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these asks that I examine community building practices.

2017, Abigail Oakley, “Supporting one another: Nonbinary community building on Tumblr”, in Isabel K. Düsterhöft, Paul G. Nixon, editors, Sex in the Digital Age, unnumbered page:

The following example from Black Mental Health illustrates an ask from an anonymous follower seeking social support: […]

2018, Lynette Kvasny, Fay Cobb Payton, “African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes”, in Amanda Ochsner, William G. Tierney, Zoë B. Corwin, editors, Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity, page 168:

Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year.

2020, Lee Brown, “Behind the Scenes of a Popular Trans Youth Resources Tumblr”, in Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, Louisa Stein, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures, page 265:

(Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.


kill

en-verb

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

kills (present singular third-person)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)
killed (past)
kill (infinitive)

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

(computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.


wiki

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

etymon

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.


wiki

en-verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

wikis (present singular third-person)
wikiing (participle present)
wikied (participle past)
wikied (past)

To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe

2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:

Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.

2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-06-04:

(transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.


thumb

From Middle English thombe, thoume, thoumbe, from Old English þūma, from Proto-West Germanic *þūmō, from Proto-Germanic *þūmô from Proto-Indo-European *tūm- (“to grow”).
See also West Frisian tomme, Dutch duim, Low German Duum, German Daumen, Danish tomme, Swedish tumme; also
Welsh tyfu (“to grow”), Latin tumēre (“to swell”), Lithuanian tumėti (“to thicken, clot”), Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “burial mound”), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬏𐬙 (amūt, “strong”), Sanskrit तुम्र (túmra, “strong, thick”). The parasitic ‐b has existed since the late 13th century.

EtymOnLine

Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “thumb”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

2001, Gary, “Wanna See Porn? Take a Look At These (Free Expandable Thumbs) - CLICK HERE”, in alt.sex.services (Usenet):

(colloquial, Internet) A thumbnail picture.


ant

From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmete (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.


BA

en-noun

BA (countable and uncountable, plural BAs)

(Internet, security) Initialism of Basic Authentication.


ES

Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the ones Mozilla incorporates in much of its documentation, and the exceedingly helpful ECMAScript 6 Compatibility Table.

2015, Shelley Powers, JavaScript Cookbook: Programming the Web, 2nd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 41:

Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.

2018, Kishori Sharan, Java APIs, Extensions and Libraries: With JavaFX, JDBC, jmod, jlink, Networking, and the Process API, 2nd edition, Apress, →ISBN, page 652:

If you open the tsconfig.json file in the project root folder, you can check which ES version is used in building your application and which ES version is used to target your browser.

2019, Jack Xu, Practical Multiple-Page Apps with ASP.NET Core and Angular Elements: Building Modern Multiple-Page Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular Elements, WebPack, RXJS, and Mini-SPAs, New York, N.Y.: UniCAD Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:

(computer languages) Initialism of ECMAScript.


YT

(Internet) Abbreviation of YouTube, a popular video hosting website.


MX

MX (countable and uncountable, plural MXs)

(Internet) Abbreviation of mail exchanger.


TL

(Internet) Abbreviation of timeline; also tl.


NS

(Internet, historical) Initialism of Netscape.


finger

en-verb

finger (third-person singular simple present fingers, present participle fingering, simple past and past participle fingered)

fingers (present singular third-person)
fingering (participle present)
fingered (participle past)
fingered (past)

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.

cog

There is also a hot-link to "finger" the guys at id to see what they're working on next (John Carmack, John Cash […]

1996, Marc Saltzman, Sean McFadden, Internet Games Directory, Lycos Press, →ISBN, page 29:

PGP mail welcome (finger me for my key).

1996, Yves Bellefeuille, “List of useful freeware”, in comp.archives.msdos.d (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.


GA

en-noun

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)

(wiki jargon) Initialism of good article.


OH

OH: "We should just burn the whole place down"

(Internet) Initialism of overheard; a post whose contents were overheard by its author.


IA

Indian Army at the Encyclopedia of India

Indian Airlines at the Encyclopædia Britannica

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.


OR

OR (countable and uncountable, plural ORs)

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of original research.


car

→ French: car

→ Russian: кар (kar)

⇒ Sanskrit: कारयान (kārayāna)

→ Japanese: カー (kā)

→ Hindi: कार (kār)

→ Urdu: کار (kār)

Inherited from Middle English carre, borrowed from Anglo-Norman carre, from Old Northern French (compare Old French char), from Latin carrus (“two-wheeled baggage wagon”), from Gaulish *karros, from Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”). Doublet of horse.

der

(Internet) Deliberate misspelling of cat.


love

en-verb

love (third-person singular simple present loves, present participle loving, simple past and past participle loved)

loves (present singular third-person)
loving (participle present)
loved (participle past)
loved (past)
love (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: lobi

Aukan: lobi

Saramaccan: lóbi

From Middle English love, luve, from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”).
The close of a letter sense is presumably a truncation of With love or the like.
The verb is from Middle English loven, luvien, from Old English lufian (“to love”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn (“to love”), derived from the noun.
Eclipsed non-native English amour (“love”), borrowed from French amour (“love”).
Cognates include Russian любовь (ljubovʹ), Latin libido (“desire, lust”), Polish lubić and Sanskrit लोभ (lobha, “desire, greed”).

der

the course of true love never did run smooth

the love of money is the root of all evil

She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.


HTTP

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

1996 May, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 1945:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hypertext Transfer Protocol#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (the protocol used most commonly to transfer Web pages and accompanying data over the Internet)


ISP

Upon my glorious ISP homepage is a wonderful piece of wisdumb […]

2008, Allan A. Zarbock, The Emperor is Naked, page 58:

Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest ISPs, has agreed to forward British music industry nastygrams to subscribers suspected of illegal file-swapping.

2008 June 16, Nate Anderson, “Cash, not idealism, behind ISP embrace of music biz”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 2009-02-10:

internet service provider
internet service provider#English

(Internet) Initialism of internet service provider. (a company that provides Internet access for a fee)


slug

Nicoline van der Sijs
Slug (disambiguation)

Originally referred to a slow, lazy person, from Middle English slugge (“lazy person", also "slowth, slothfulness”), probably of either Old English or Old Norse origin; compare Norn slug (“lazy, slothful, sluggish”), dialectal Norwegian slugg (“a large, heavy body”), sluggje (“heavy, slow person”), Danish slog (“rascal, rogue”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sliǵ-ōn, from *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”) or otherwise from the root of Old Norse slókr (“lazy person, oaf”), whence Icelandic slókur (“laziness”). Compare also Dutch slak (“snail, slug”). Doublet of slotch.

inh

Slugs are better than just appending the document ID to the URL, as they are readable and understandable by visitors. They are also an important part of a good SEO. So that we can use slugs, every slug has to be unique.

2016, Fabian Vogelsteller, Isaac Strack, Marcelo Reyna, Meteor: Full-Stack Web Application Development, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:

(web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.


re

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254

"I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."

2020 July 24, HarryBlank, “SCP-5243”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-09-02:

About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.

فِي مَا يَخُصّ

fī mā yaḵuṣṣ


re

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.


re

gg [good game], no re

(video games, slang) Clipping of rematch.

(marketing, branding) Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names)


chat room

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

If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:

(Internet) Part of a website or other network where visitors can converse in typed messages.


room

en-noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

→ Japanese: ルーム (rūmu)

→ Kikuyu: rumu

→ Maori: rūma

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
From Middle English roum, from Old English rūm (“room, space”), from Proto-West Germanic *rūm (“room”), from Proto-Germanic *rūmą (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh₁- (“free space”).
Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin rūs (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural.
In the standard language, it is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /ɹaʊm/, but /aʊ/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in standard Modern English native vocabulary. The pronunciation /ɹaʊm/ does occur in, for example, Lancashire.

inh

rum (/ɹʊm/) (without the foot-strut split)

nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs

Some users may not be able to access the AOL room.

Here in the room we are as one / Together you and me, together you and me / Hours connect / As we switch on

2000, “My Internet Girl”, performed by Aaron Carter:

(Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.


poop

en-noun

poop (countable and uncountable, plural poops)

Russian: пуп (pup)

Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.

cog

Alternative form: Poop

The resulting video (called a “poop”) subverts its original content by slicing and dicing the video and audio, adding visual effects, and mashing several videos into one.

2012 November 3, Brad Evan Rosen, “YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community – by “William A – YLT2012””, in Yale Law Tech:

And nobody really set out to design YTP to work this way—only a fraction of YTPs ever succeed in releasing enough neurochemicals, and those are the videos that get elevated and then remixed into a new round of poops.

2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes:

(Internet slang) Clipping of YouTube poop (“video mashup”).


sandbox

→ Chinese: 沙盒 (shāhé) (calque)

(wiki jargon) A page on a wiki where users are free to experiment without destroying or damaging any legitimate content.

연습장 (yeonseupjang, literally “exercise book”)


icon

From Latin īcōn, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.

der

Is it okay if I use your drawing as my icon?

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.

(Internet, informal) An image used to represent a user; an avatar or profile picture.


rail

→ Catalan: rail

→ Dutch: rail

→ French: rail

→ Japanese: レール (rēru)

→ Punjabi: ਰੇਲ (rel)

→ Spanish: raíl

→ Swahili: reli

→ Tibetan: རི་ལི (ri li, “train”)

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.

doublet

We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.

(Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.


god

Belizean Creole: gaad

Sranan Tongo: gado

Inherited from Middle English god, from Old English god, originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, from Proto-West Germanic *god n, from Proto-Germanic *gudą; see there for further origin. Not related to the word good or Persian خدا (xodâ, “god”).

godship

with poss. pron. as joc. term of address

time spent laughing is time spent with the gods

The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.

The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.

2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max, page 11:

(Internet, roleplaying games) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.


chat

en-noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.

Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?

Chat, is this prime minister serious?

2024 September 11, Fatima Payman, 00:48 from the start, in Skibidi Senator Payman + 100,000 aura (video), archived from the original on 2024-09-12:

(Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

(metonymically, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.

(by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."

Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me.

While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]

1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online, page 256:


egg

egg (countable and uncountable, plural eggs)

→⇒ German: not the yellow from the egg

Jamaican Creole: eg

Sranan Tongo: eksi

The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into at least c. 16th century before being fully displaced by egg.
The verb is derived from the noun.

wôwan

approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development

ou

thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg

egg

person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, or who has not yet come out as transgender or is in the early stages of transitioning; one’s lack of awareness that one is transgender

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

there's more than one way to cook an egg

there's more than one way to crack an egg

(Internet slang, derogatory, dated) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.


feed

en-noun

feed (countable and uncountable, plural feeds)

From Middle English fede, fed, from the verb (see above). Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse fœða (“nourishment, food”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), whence also Old English fēdan (“to feed”).

I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.

(Internet) online content presented sequentially:

(syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.

Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets.

2016 March 15, Mike Isaac, “Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request.

2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:

Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time.

2020 November 24, Charlie Warzel, “What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

possessive determiner
possessive determiner

(social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated


voice

→ Russian: войс (vojs) (slang, from "voice message")

From Middle English voice, voys, vois, borrowed from Anglo-Norman voiz, voys, voice, Old French vois, voiz (Modern French voix), from Latin vōcem, accusative form of vōx (“voice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, root noun from *wekʷ- (“to utter, speak”). Cognate with Sanskrit वाच् (vāc), Ancient Greek ὄψ (óps), Persian آواز (âvâz). Displaced native Middle English steven (“voice”) (from Old English stefn (see steven)), Old English hlēoþor, and Old English woþ. Broadly overtook Old English reord. Compare advocate, advowson, avouch, convoke, epic, vocal, vouch, vowel. Doublet of vox.

the voice of the people, the voice of God

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

1999 February 20, Cory McWilliams, “IRC oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <7amrhu$17kg@enews2.newsguy.com>:

(Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether or not they can send messages to the channel.

puheoikeus

internet: flag determining whether or not a user can send messages to the channel


voice

en-verb

voice (third-person singular simple present voices, present participle voicing, simple past and past participle voiced)

voices (present singular third-person)
voicing (participle present)
voiced (participle past)
voiced (past)

From Middle English voysen, voicen, from the noun (see above).

I would like this script to allow me to notice not only the ops in a channel, but also those that have been voiced by the ops, at the same time.

2001 November 22, Thom Peppard, “assistance please”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <B8225C66.240B%thompeppard@tru.eastlink.ca>:

If you then want others to be able to talk, you can voice them (+v) or if you want everyone able to talk, you can remove the moderation flag on the channel (-m).

2004 August 1, Remco Rijnders, “moderating an IRC session”, in alt.irc (Usenet), message-ID <opsb1625xn32ljov@news.xs4all.nl>:

(transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.


freeze

freeze (third-person singular simple present freezes, present participle freezing, simple past froze, past participle frozen or (now colloquial) froze)

freezes (present singular third-person)
freezing (participle present)
froze (past)
frozen (participle past)
froze (colloquial participle past)

→ Maltese: ffriża

From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to frost, freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to frost, freeze”).
Cognate with Scots frese (“to freeze”), Saterland Frisian frjoze (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, freern, fresen (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Danish fryse (“to freeze”), Norwegian fryse, Swedish frysa (“to freeze”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost”), Welsh (Northern) rhew (“frost, ice”), and Sanskrit प्रुष्व (pruṣvá, “water drop, frost”).

cog

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

Some websites, such as YouTube, deliberately freeze the view count, intended to deter attempts to game the system.

(Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.


overlay

/ˈəʊ.vəˌleɪ/

From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.

(Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.


basket

en-noun

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

→ Irish: bascaed

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.
One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.

unk

obscure

buslo

a large, deep basket used especially in marketing

pangnan

a small basket used by fishermen or to hold flowers or fruit

(Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.

զամբյուղ

notional place to store items before ordering them online


hit

→ Catalan: hit

→ Czech: hit

→ Danish: hit

→ French: hit

→ Dutch: hit

→ Japanese: ヒット (hitto)

→ Polish: hit

→ Portuguese: hit

→ Russian: хит (xit)

→ Spanish: hit

→ Swedish: hit

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).
Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

хіт

success, especially in the entertainment industry

папада́нне

collision of a projectile with the target

(computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

попаде́ние

computing, Internet: positive result of a search

My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.


cut

en-noun

cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

leikkaus

notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging

That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.

(Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.


following

Coordinate term: follower

When a new user joins Weibo, he should register Weibo and get a unique ID, and then he takes some existing users as his followings and waits for others to follow him.

2014, Zhengbiao Guo, Zhitang Li, Hao Tu, Da Xie, “Weibo: An Information-Driven Online Social Network”, in Marina L.Gavrilova, C.J. Kenneth Tan, editors, Transactions on Computational Science XXII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8360), Springer, →ISBN, part I (Neural and Social Networks), page 6:

A follower can follow any other users and receive any kind of tweets from his or her followings.

2017, Konglin Zhu, Xiaoming Fu, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu, Jan Nagler, “Population Growth in Online Social Networks”, in Xiaoming Fu, Jar-Der Luo, Margarete Boos, editors, Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies, CRC Press, →ISBN, section 3 (The Data), subsection 1 (Three Online Social Networks):

She scrolled through her [Chloe’s] page and liked a few of her pictures that were like candy to her eyes before thoroughly checking her followings. She then checked Chloe’s followers, which was well over a thousand followers.

2020, Jay Janzee, Don’t Get Too Close, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, →ISBN, page 79:

(social media) An account which is followed.


XHTML

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
w:Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

Initialism of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (a reformulation of HTML as an XML application.)


JS

(computing, Internet) Initialism of JavaScript.


CSS

en-noun

CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)

One needs only to decide upon a series of rules to define the functionality of a CSS and then to decide how to implement that sheet, either directly within their HTML document, or by using an externally linked file.

2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 162:

A marked-up document can have a CSS linked to it, but a user may have a CSS on their machine that will override it, which can cause problems sometimes and can need checking where publishers need to be sure the content is accurately presented.

2013, Frania Hall, The Business of Digital Publishing: An Introduction to the Digital Book and Journal Industries, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:

Now, the first thing we will do is to alter our listing page to respect the layout of the original Agendatech, importing the CSSs.

2014, Alberto Souza, Practical Play Framework: Focus on What Is Really Important, Editora Casa do Código, →ISBN:

Create a CSS with the following rules: a. Set the text color for the page to "#ff6600", and the text color for <h1> to "IndianRed".

2021, Prashant Joshi, Introduction to IT Systems, Khanna Book Publishing Co. (P) Ltd., published 2022, →ISBN, page 110:

cascading style sheet
cascading style sheet#English

(web design) Initialism of cascading style sheet.


CSS

style sheet language
style sheet language

(web design) Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language.


tell

From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talǭ (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.

cog

(Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.


anchor

→ Chuukese: angko

From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin spelling anchora. Doublet of ancora and anker.

(Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.


chan

I tried, but I never get anyone in the chan! I don't know how/where to advertise... maybe we should set up a meeting time or something?

1997, Dominic Donegan, “Is there a #nethack chan on IRC?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):

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

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


chan

From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel.

more niche chans


flame

en-noun

flame (countable and uncountable, plural flames)

From Middle English flawme, blend of Old French flame and flambe, flamble, the first from Latin flamma, the second from Latin flammula, diminutive of flamma, both from pre-Latin *fladma; Proto-Italic *flagmā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shimmer, gleam, shine”). Displaced native Old English līeġ.

der

Flames are, unfortunately, a fact of USENET life. It's a rare USENET regular who hasn't been shaken to the foundations with anger at something some jerk has posted.

1995, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Usenet Newsgroups, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 39:

(Internet, somewhat dated) An aggressively insulting criticism or remark.


flame

en-verb

flame (third-person singular simple present flames, present participle flaming, simple past and past participle flamed)

flames (present singular third-person)
flaming (participle present)
flamed (participle past)
flamed (past)

From Middle English flawmen, from Old French flamber, flammer.

I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

I wish you had the nerve to put your own name on that article, rather than logging into a public account to do it. I would have prefered^([sic]) to respond to you personally, rather than burden the net with my flaming, particularly since opinions like yours are best left ignored. But I feel I must respond to this one.

1983 October 20, Joe Ziegler, net.motss (Usenet):

This was one of the highest points of the show for me. Playin' followed, with a nice jam afterwards. After that, Jerry wandered into Crazy Fingers. (I had been hoping for Terrapin...oh well. Crazy Fingers seems to highlight Jerry's ability to come in late and tentative on lyrics. I'm sure I'll get flamed, since lots of folks seem to worship CF.)

1989 June 29, Neil McAvoy [Wing Attack Plan R], rec.music.gdead (Usenet):

If he got flamed for his lies or his ignorance, he simply moved to another chat room.

2001, w:Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

Because online communication makes it easy to flame, many of us impetuously fire off messages that we later regret.

2019, Steven McCornack, Kelly Morrison, Reflect & Relate, 5th edition:

(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).

blusse

to post a critical or abusive message on the Internet


attachment

en-noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.

(computing) A file sent along with a message, usually an email.


push

push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)

From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare (“to beat, strike”), frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus). Doublet of pulsate and pulse (verb). Partly displaced native Old English sċūfan, whence Modern English shove.

server push; a push technology

(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.


profile

profile (countable and uncountable, plural profiles)

From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.

I just updated my Facebook profile to show I got engaged.

After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.

2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:

(Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.

profiel

space with personal information in software or Internet systems


World Wide Web Consortium
w:World Wide Web Consortium

(software, Internet) Initialism of World Wide Web Consortium.


ring

→ French: ring
→ Romanian: ring

→ Hungarian: ring

→ Italian: ring

→ Japanese: リング

→ Polish: ring

→ Serbo-Croatian: ring

→ Spanish: ring

→ Turkish: ring

From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range.
cognates
* West Frisian ring
* Low German Ring
* Dutch ring
* German Ring
* Swedish ring
* Finnish rengas

Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.

2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:


short

→ Cantonese: short

→ Italian: short

→ Japanese: ショート (shōto)

→ Mandarin: 秀逗 (xiùdou)

→ Hakka: 秀逗 (sió-tò)

→ Maltese: xort

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognates
shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.

A YouTube video that is less than one minute long.


pull

pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)

button

antonym(s) of “device meant to be pulled”

-ʊl (accents with foot–goose merger or full–fool merger)

Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).

cog

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

server pull

pull technology

(Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.

pull

internet: situation where a client sends out a request for data


domain

range

antonym(s) of “domain of definition of a function”

From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. Doublet of demesne, domino.

definisieversameling

(mathematics) the set on which a function is defined

2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.

(computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative of the delegated domain name and its subdomains.

(computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name and all its subdomains.


black hole

desc

→ Bengali: ব্ল্যাকহোল (blêkhol), ব্ল্যাক হোল (blêk hol)

→ Japanese: ブラックホール (burakku hōru)

→ Korean: 블랙홀 (beullaekhol)

en:Black Hole of Calcutta
en:Hong-Yee Chiu
en:John Archibald Wheeler
en:black hole (disambiguation)

In reference to celestial bodies, physicist Hong-Yee Chiu attributed the term to his colleague Robert H. Dicke, who stated around 1960–1961 that the objects were "like the Black Hole of Calcutta". The first known usage in print was by journalist Ann Ewing in 1964. Widespread popularization of the term is generally credited to a 1967 lecture by physicist John Wheeler.

One way of fighting spam is to use a blackhole list maintained on a blackhole server.

(Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.


black hole

en-verb

black hole (third-person singular simple present black holes, present participle black holing, simple past and past participle black holed)

black holes (present singular third-person)
black holing (participle present)
black holed (participle past)
black holed (past)

Select a nonglobally routed prefix, such as the Test-Net (RFC 3330) 192.0.2.0/24, to use as the next hop of any attacked prefix to be blackholed.

2005, Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson, Extreme exploits: advanced defenses against hardcore hacks, page 186:

(transitive, Internet) To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic).


Wiktionarian

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

-ɪkʃənɛəɹiən

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin dictiō
Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor.
Middle English dixionare
English dictionaryblend.
English Wiktionary
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Wiktionarian
From Wiktionary + -ian.

etymon

An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, page 430:

Wiktionary contributors are called Wiktionarians.

2012, Sylviane Granger, Magali Paquot, editors, Electronic Lexicography, Oxford University Press, page 271:

Wiktionary is compiled through a collaborative process by a large community of Web users, in this context called Wiktionarians.

2013, Robert Lew, “User-generated content (UGC) in online English dictionaries”, in OPAL - Online publizierte Arbeiten zur Linguistik, number § 5.1:

(Wikimedia jargon) A person who contributes to Wiktionary, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the site.


gram

Alternative form of 'gram (“Instagram”).


gram

en-verb

gram (third-person singular simple present grams, present participle gramming, simple past and past participle grammed)

grams (present singular third-person)
gramming (participle present)
grammed (participle past)
grammed (past)


delegate

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

delegates (present singular third-person)
delegating (participle present)
delegated (participle past)
delegated (past)

/ˈdɛlɪˌɡeɪt/

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus.

(computing, Internet, transitive) (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.


key

From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."

шпи́лка

object used to maintain the orientation between two others

Key in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet):

(Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.


peer

en-verb

peer (third-person singular simple present peers, present participle peering, simple past and past participle peered)

peers (present singular third-person)
peering (participle present)
peered (participle past)
peered (past)

From Middle English pere, per, from Anglo-Norman peir, Old French per, from Latin pār. Doublet of pair and par.

(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.


platform

From Middle French plateforme (“a flat form”), from plate (“flat”) (from Old French plat, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”)) + forme (“form”) (from Latin fōrma (“shape; figure; form”)); compare flatscape.

der

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

In fact, wealth and power are shifting to those who control the platforms on which all of us create, consume, and connect.

2014, Astra Taylor, “Preface”, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

The promise of the platform business model is its magical self-reinforcement: Once the platform is in place, money is supposed to flow through the system without much extra effort at all.

2021 September 15, Reeves Wiedeman, “Why Does Every Company Now Want to Be a Platform?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

digital platform
digital platform#English

(Internet) Ellipsis of digital platform: a software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, cloud computing etc.

Plattform

computing: computer system used to deliver services to clients


p

I'm doing p good, how are you?

There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole think SU27 is p bad!).

1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgandelphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim/msg/8ebf7044a96c18e5

(Internet) Abbreviation of pretty (as an intensifier)


salt

en-verb

salt (third-person singular simple present salts, present participle salting, simple past and past participle salted)

salts (present singular third-person)
salting (participle present)
salted (participle past)
salted (past)

PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

(wiki jargon) To lock a page title so it cannot be created.


community

en-noun

community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūnis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. Morphologically, from commune + -ity. Doublet of communitas.

der

Spam texts are encoded but no decryption is possible. There is no plaintext message. I find them wonderful, and read them as poetics, as odd fragments generative of narrtives and scenography. I find the process of their production wonderful as well. The texts are written to elude community standards and means of censorship, and at the same time to enter and impose themselves into the standards and means for the community to read itself.

2015, Sandy Baldwin, “I Read My Spam”, in The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics; 9), New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, section VI, page 89:

Online gaming communities develop their own language, history, routines, and relationships. The online poker community is no different, developing its own culture distinct from the traditional poker community. One asp[ect that differentiates internet poker from other online gaming communities is the presence of money, creating what [Edward] Castronova et al. (2009) refer to as a virtual economic system complete with its own rules and forces.

2015, Aaron M. Duncan, “Shifting the Scene to Cyberspace: Internet Poker and the Rise of Tom Dwan”, in Gambling with the Myth of the American Dream (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN:

(countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.


home

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

cog

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

(Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.


home

Click here to go home.

To one's home.
(Internet) To the home page.


edit

Back-formation from editor, influenced by French éditer (“edit, publish”) and Latin editus.

a basketball edit, a Thor edit

bro thinks he's in an edit (Internet meme)

Valorant edits have become massive on TikTok as creators put their editing skills to the test in making the best edits they can, but Tarik argued that videos like these can be "over-edited" and that he can't tell what's happening.

2023 July 21, Carver Fisher, “Tarik slams "over-edited" Valorant TikTok video trend”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-11-08:

(Internet, specifically) A compilation of memorable moments (in a show, sport, etc.), often featuring stylized camera effects and intense music.


view

model

antonym(s) of “part of computer program”

→ Japanese: ビュー (byū)

→ Korean: 뷰 (byu)

→ Persian: ویو (viyu)

From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta and vista.

(Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.

visualització

internet: individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user


link

en-verb

link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)

links (present singular third-person)
linking (participle present)
linked (participle past)
linked (past)

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

inh

My homepage links to my wife's.

(intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.

Haven't you seen his website? I'll link you to it.

(transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!

(transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.


hyperlink

→ Danish: hyperlink

From hyper- + link, or a blend of hypertext + link.

Click the hyperlink to go to the next page.

(Internet) Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.


Wikipedian

From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).

That is because Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can not only contribute whatever they want but can also edit entries posted by other writers as they see fit.

2001 September 20, Peter Meyers, “Fact-Driven? Collegial? This Site Wants You”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Britannica, somewhat representative of old media in general, instinctively regards Wikipedia as a threat, whereas Wikipedians are not the least bit tempted to reciprocate.

This change takes care of casual or heat-of-the-moment vandalism, but it does little to address a new category of Wikipedian somewhere between committed community member and momentarily vandalizing teenager, one that creates tougher problems.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It, page 139:

(Wikimedia jargon) A person who contributes to Wikipedia, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the website.

وِيكِيبِيدِيّ

a person who uses, edits, or contributes to Wikipedia


Wikipedian

Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.

2006 April 19, “The Wikipedia FAQK”, in Wired News:

In these Googlial Wikipedian times, a vast collection of wordbooks may seem slow, unnecessary or both.

2007 September 6, GALE ZOË GARNETT, “The language of the love of language”, in Globe and Mail:

If people stopped believing in the Wikipedian ideal, and used its tools for vandalism, "it's unlikely the whole enterprise would survive a week"

2008 March 21, Pat Kane, “Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. We-Think, by Charles Leadbeater”, in Independent:


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.

2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter, Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge, →ISBN, page xii:

(Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.


spider

en-verb

spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)

spiders (present singular third-person)
spidering (participle present)
spidered (participle past)
spidered (past)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.

(Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.


host

From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from *hostipotis, an old compound of hostis and the root of potis, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰostipotis (“master of guests”), from *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century.

der

(computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.

ܡܐܲܪܚܵܢܵܐ

computing: computer attached to a network


host

en-verb

host (third-person singular simple present hosts, present participle hosting, simple past and past participle hosted)

hosts (present singular third-person)
hosting (participle present)
hosted (participle past)
hosted (past)

Kremvax hosts a variety of services.

CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.

1987 May 7, Selden E. Ball, Jr., “Re: Ethernet Terminal Concentrators”, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet):

(computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.

ܐܲܪܸܚ

computing: run software for a remote user or process


kick

kick (third-person singular simple present kicks, present participle kicking, simple past and past participle kicked)

kicks (present singular third-person)
kicking (participle present)
kicked (participle past)
kicked (past)
kick (infinitive)

→ German: kicken

→ Welsh: cicio

From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

штовхну́ти

ного́ю; нога́ми

She was kicked from the IRC server for flooding.

(transitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.

изри́твам

to remove a participant from an online activity


kick

en-noun

kick (countable and uncountable, plural kicks)

→ German: Kick

→ Irish: cic

(Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.


ping

Partly onomatopoeic, and partly continuing Middle English pingen (“to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad, urge, feel remorse, incite”), from Old English pyngan (“to prick”), in turn likely from pungere. Compare English pang.

inh

I sent a ping to the insurance company to see if they received our claim.

(text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.

kilahdus

an email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement


void

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

üreg

fluid mechanics: a pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation

My little void is so sweet sometimes.

(Internet, humorous, endearing) A black cat.


ham

en-noun

ham (countable and uncountable, plural hams)

Inherited from Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).
Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Old Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shinbone”). Compare gammon and gam.

cog

(Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.


carbon copy

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

(Internet) A duplicate copy of an email.


carbon copy

en-verb

carbon copy (third-person singular simple present carbon copies, present participle carbon copying, simple past and past participle carbon copied)

carbon copies (present singular third-person)
carbon copying (participle present)
carbon copied (participle past)
carbon copied (past)

(Internet) To send a duplicate copy of an email to.


beta

beta (third-person singular simple present betas, present participle betaing, simple past and past participle betaed)

betas (present singular third-person)
betaing (participle present)
betaed (participle past)
betaed (past)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

1999, sqira a., in alt.tv.x-files.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.x-files.creative/msg/29d32d27e61755f2?dmode=source
My thanks to Heather; who read it and betaed it. Thank you.

2000, Elizabeth Durack, quoted in Angelina I. Karpovich, “The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities” (essay), in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (editors), Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet, McFarland (2006), →ISBN, page 180,
Beta’ing is time-consuming, so asking a lot of people to give you a detailed analysis isn’t the most polite thing to do.

2002, Jane Davitt, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative/msg/9301606b391212c0?dmode=source
The next part is written and beta'd (thanks, Jen!), ready to go but <shuffles feet> I haven't even started what should be the final part yet.

2002, Karmen Ghia, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/8405f53e8acbb0c1?dmode=source
I had the honor of betaing this story and as I was doing the first read through I had the odd, but lovely, experience when a story suspends the reader in its own rhythm and flow, its own reality.


CC

en-noun

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

Alternative form: cc

Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the CC of the CPSU.

Central Committee
Central Committee#English

(politics) Initialism of Central Committee.


CC

en-verb

CC (third-person singular simple present CCs, present participle CCing, simple past and past participle CCed)

CCs (present singular third-person)
CCing (participle present)
CCed (participle past)
CCed (past)

Alternative form: cc

Please email the file to me and CC it to my manager.

Please email me a summary and CC my manager too.

(Internet, transitive) Initialism of carbon copy.


CC

Creative Commons
Creative Commons#English


carbon

carbon (third-person singular simple present carbons, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)

carbons (present singular third-person)
carboning (participle present)
carboned (participle past)
carboned (past)

Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).

der

When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.

(Internet, transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to receive a carbon copy of an email message.


nick

a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network

/nick Changes your nickname—the name by which other IRCers see and refer to you—to anything you'd like (but remember that nine characters is the maximum nick length).

1995, Donald Rose, Internet Chat Quick Tour: Real-time Conversations & Communications Online, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Ventana Press, →ISBN, page 42:

Also, ERC, like Emacs, is extremely modular and flexible. It is, of course, a free software program, but there are also many existing modules from nick highlighting to autoaway that you can use.

2014, Josh Datko, “Chatting Off-the-record”, in BeagleBone for Secret Agents: Bbrowse Anonymously, Communicate Secretly, and Create Custom Security Solutions with Open Source Software, the BeagleBone Black, and Cryptographic Hardware (Community Experience Distilled), Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing, →ISBN:


shopping cart

/ˈʃɑpɪŋ kɑɹt/

(Internet) The stored list of items that a person has chosen to purchase during an online shopping session but has not yet confirmed.


IX

(Internet) Initialism of Internet exchange.


POP

(telecommunications) Acronym of point of presence.

One commonly used POP (persistent organic pollutant), organochlorine, may be responsible for contaminating the world's seafood supply, since pesticides can run off the land into streams, lakes, and reservoirs.

2009, Edward Group, Complete Colon Cleanse: The At-Home Detox Program to Restore Good Health, Boost Vitality, and Ensure Longevity, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 91:

persistent organic pollutant
persistent organic pollutant#English

(environmental science) Acronym of persistent organic pollutant.


POP

Post Office Protocol
w:Post Office Protocol

(Internet) Acronym of Post Office Protocol.

The parachutes at Riverview Park will shake us up all day / And Disneyland and P.O.P. is worth a trip to L.A

1965, Mike Love, Brian Wilson (lyrics and music), “Amusement Parks U.S.A.”, performed by The Beach Boys:

(historical) Initialism of Pacific Ocean Park.


POP

Acronym of post office preferred. (denoting a standard envelope size)


after dark

(Internet) An 18+ account of a content creator, typically on Twitter (X).


dash

From Middle English daschen, dassen, from Danish daske (“to slap, strike”), related to Swedish daska (“to smack, slap, spank”), of obscure origin. Compare German tatschen (“to grope, paw”), Old English dwǣsċan (“to quell, put out, destroy, extinguish”). See also dush.

noncog

-i hope you find at least one thing on your dash that will make you laugh today.

2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", in A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth), page 392

i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see my dash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.

2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake, Recovering Argument, unnumbered page

“You wanna know what else is all over my dash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend."

2018, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Alphas Like Us, unnumbered page:

(Internet, informal) The dashboard of a social media user.

Short for dashboard.
The dashboard of a social media user.


newbie

Uncertain: perhaps an alteration of newie with intrusive b (compare freebie), possibly a blend of newborn + baby, or perhaps a shortening of new boy or new beginner.

(Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.


chop

IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.

1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, page 404:


trout

en-verb

trout (third-person singular simple present trouts, present participle trouting, simple past and past participle trouted)

trouts (present singular third-person)
trouting (participle present)
trouted (participle past)
trouted (past)

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.

der

(transitive, Internet chat) To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

truchear

Internet. To figuratively slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.


publish

en-verb

publish (third-person singular simple present publishes, present participle publishing, simple past and past participle published)

publishes (present singular third-person)
publishing (participle present)
published (participle past)
published (past)
publish (infinitive)

private

To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified

From Middle English publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.

der

(Internet, transitive) To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.

julkaista

(Internet) to disseminate publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.


user

From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).

(Internet, informal) Clipping of username.


flood

en-verb

flood (third-person singular simple present floods, present participle flooding, simple past and past participle flooded)

floods (present singular third-person)
flooding (participle present)
flooded (participle past)
flooded (past)

From Middle English flod, from Old English flōd, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu, from Proto-Germanic *flōduz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus).

There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.

1998, Dr. Cat, “Furry web site plug”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.


wat

Variation of what, used for humorous effect.

(informal, Internet, text messaging) Alternative spelling of what


share

→ Thai: แชร์ (chɛɛ)

From Middle English schare, schere, from Old English sċearu (“a cutting, shaving, a shearing, tonsure, part, division, share”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaru, from Proto-Germanic *skarō (“a division, detachment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian skar, sker (“a share in a communal pasture”), Dutch schare (“share in property”), German Schar (“band, troop, party, company”), Icelandic skor (“department”). Compare shard, shear. Doublet of eschel.

cog

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

2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:

(social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.


share

en-verb

share (third-person singular simple present shares, present participle sharing, simple past and past participle shared)

shares (present singular third-person)
sharing (participle present)
shared (participle past)
shared (past)

(computing, Internet) To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network

teilen

(computing, Internet) to allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network


Internet Relay Chat

(Internet) A protocol for instant communication via the Internet. Users connect to a network and join channels (chat rooms) where they can converse in typed text with other participants.


invisible

From Middle English invisible, from Old French invisible, from Late Latin invīsibilis. Displaced native Old English unġesewenlīċ.
Morphologically in- + visible.

I went invisible so that my ex-girlfriend wouldn't send me instant messages.

(Internet) Apparently, but not actually, offline.


spam

en-noun

spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

I get far too much spam.

I received 58 spams yesterday.

Coordinate term: bacn

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

(uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.

An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)

(uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.

(Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.


spam

en-verb

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

spams (present singular third-person)
spamming (participle present)
spammed (participle past)
spammed (past)

(intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.

(transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.


AS

autonomous system
w:autonomous system (Internet)

(Internet) Initialism of autonomous system.


BBS

en-noun

BBS (countable and uncountable, plural BBSes or BBSs)

Parallel to the emergence of text-based multiplayer games, though, was another kind of virtual community: Bulletin Boards (BBSs). BBSs were modems people could dial up to, connect with, and exchange software and messages with other members of the community. […] These BBSs, early frontier outposts of our virtual worlds, were John Lester’s first experience of a community outside the physical.

2007, Tim Guest, “Lester Prototype: The Beginning of Virtual Worlds”, in Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 60:

bulletin board system
bulletin board system#English

bulletin board service
bulletin board service#English

(telecommunications, Internet) Initialism of bulletin board system or bulletin board service.