trend

en-verb

trend (third-person singular simple present trends, present participle trending, simple past and past participle trended)

trends (present singular third-person)
trending (participle present)
trended (participle past)
trended (past)

From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle.

inh

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What topics have been trending on social networks this week?

"Puppy Bowl" was even a trending sports topic on Facebook.

2016 February 3, Voice of America, “Trending Today: Puppy Bowl”, in Voice of America, Voice of America:

The hashtag #RepublicofThailand trended on Twitter in Thailand on Friday after parliament voted to push back the question of changing the constitution as protesters have demanded.

2020 September 25, Reuters Staff, “Thai republican hashtag trends after constitution change delayed”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 2020-09-25:

The platform, founded in 2006, also came along just as TV’s cultural cachet was rising, with a growth in ambitious, talk-about-able appointment series. “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” premiered during its run; twist-heavy serials like “Scandal” and “Game of Thrones” delivered the kind of OMG moments that got them trending regularly.

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

(social media, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.


algorithm

en-noun

algorithm (countable and uncountable, plural algorithms)

→ Japanese: アルゴリズム (arugorizumu)

→ Korean: 알고리즘 (algorijeum)

/ˈælɡəɹɪðəm/

[ˈæɫɡəɹɪðm̩]

/ˈælɡəˌɹɪðəm/

[ˈæɫɡəˌɹɪðm̩]

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
algorithm

From Middle English algorisme, augrym, from Anglo-Norman algorisme, augrim, from Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic الخَوَارِزْمِيّ (al-ḵawārizmiyy), the nisba of Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī and a toponymic name meaning "person from Chorasmia". The spelling change (-s- > -th-) was influenced by unrelated Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós) (whence English arithmo-).

der

الخَوَارِزْمِيّ

(social media, metonymically) recommender systems and the curation of feeds

(usually proceeded by definite article "the") software that makes content display determinations on a platform, in totality of effect upon all end users (within a potential audience).

social media; usually proceeded by definite article "the"; usually proceeded by definite article "the"

Glover began his acceptance speech by saying, “First, I want to thank the great algorithm that put us all here.”

2018 February 26, Tad Friend, quoting Donald Glover, “Donald Glover Can’t Save You”, in The New Yorker:

(informal, by extension of above) the influenced zeitgeist: e.g. what content ends up trending or viral, what persons become a main character or cancelled

… you and I probably didn't run across that in our algorithm, but that doesn't mean that a lot of people aren't gonna run across garbage like that in their algorithms in the next couple weeks…

2024 October 23, Ben Rhodes, “Trump Blames Zelensky for War, Sucks Up to Saudis” (23:52 from the start), in Pod Save the World (podcast):

possessive determiner
possessive determiner

(informal, usually proceeded by a possessive determiner) the actual personalized selections of content seen by specific user(s), the microtargeting to which they are subject

social media; usually proceeded by a possessive determiner; usually proceeded by a possessive determiner


HTTP cookie

(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

kaka c (recommended by authorities, but relatively rarely used)


snap

en-noun

snap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)

From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

gloss

”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">snapa</i> (“to get; scrounge”)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

cog

By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.

2014, Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, page 51:

The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.

2015, Suse Barnes, Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximise Your Online Potential, page 238:

While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.

2015, Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms, page 120:

(social media) Alternative letter-case form of Snap.

A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

“[…] What’s your snap?” she asks. “Oh here.” He jerks for his phone not trying to test her patience or invitation. They trade info. “Cool,” she comments and memorizes his username.

2017, Coulter, A Night’s Tale, BookVenture Publishing LLC, →ISBN:

In addition to compliments (“that’s hot!”) and direct propositions (“please post a full frontal shot”), commenters often leave invitations on users’ posts to direct message them (“DM me!”), follow their account (“follow me”) or exchange usernames for the ephemeral social messaging service, Snapchat (“snap: @readyforyou”, “what’s your snap?”).

2018, Elija Cassidy, Gay Men, Identity and Social Media: A Culture of Participatory Reluctance, Routledge, →ISBN:

He asked for my snap one day so I gave it to him, but strictly as friends and he knew that.

2023 August 29, Alexis Sook, chapter 1, in Two Hearts or One, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN, page 4:

(colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).


snap

en-verb

snap (third-person singular simple present snaps, present participle snapping, simple past and past participle snapped or (obsolete) snapt)

snaps (present singular third-person)
snapping (participle present)
snapped (participle past)
snapped (past)
snapt (obsolete participle past)
snapt (obsolete past)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

захапвам

to attempt to seize with the teeth or bite

napsauttaa

to cause something to emit a snapping sound

As I set myself up the round table, my phone lit up with a few notifications on Snapchat. Gustin snapped me a few pictures of the three boys in the park.

2019, Keertiga Chandran, “Rockhurst”, in The Pebble Fall Theme Park: Welcome to the Pebble Fall Theme Park, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN:

Did you know she just joined Snapchat? Last night, she snapped me a picture of you sitting in a muddy puddle in nothing but your diaper.

2024, Jami Rogers, “Chapter Two: Natalie”, in Always Been Write: A Small Town, Best Friends to Lovers Romance (Lust or Bust; 6):

(social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).


smiley face

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Enter the smiley face, the computer hacker's version of comic relief.

2002, Lisa Malia McDonough, Lisa, the Brief Life of a Writer, page 136:

Two minutes later a reply came back.
Cool, see you tomorrow...x
Campbell sent back a smiley face, did a little dance around the bedroom and flopped back onto his bed wearing a smiley face of his own.

2005, Craig Cornwell, Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood, page 20:

Against Mary Jane's wishes, I texted Gavin just to reassure him that I was not going out with his girlfriend. I put a smiley face at the end of the message.

2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love And Economics, page 94:

(rare, Internet) A smiley, a sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood, e.g. :) or :-).


edress

If anybody wants to take up a reply to ream me out, my edress is as follows: […]

1993 September 23, "williams" (username), "here's another chance to flame, in rec.pets.herp, Usenet

Baleen’s boardroom lay somewhere out in the virtch, in a deeply encrypted region called the Briarpatch. Only Baleen (and Poole sEcurity) had the edress and key.

2001, Michael Flynn, Lodestar, Macmillan,, →ISBN, page 124:

Comcast negotiated a deal for a few months, they're going to pay a lot more to @home for those months, while they try to find a new cable supplier. So your edress will probably change eventually.

2001 December 7, Marilee J. Layman, “Re: @home.com email addys”, in rec.crafts.beads (Usenet):

My edress is […].

2010 April 9, Leslie, “Re: April Phoenix Housfilk - Announcement”, in rec.music.filk (Usenet):


e-dress

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As I added my info, one e-dress caught my eye: […]

2001, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: A tale of three New Yorkers”, in The Independent Rowing News, Volume 9, Number 2 (2001 March 15), ISSN 1548-694X, page 54

Had someone at the paper given out his home e-dress?

2002, Tim Waggoner, All Too Surreal, Prime Books, →ISBN, page 92:

Email is so important in Antarctica. Each expeditioner has an e-dress on board and on the station.

2002, Hazel Edwards, Antarctic writer on ice: diary of an enduring adventure, Common Ground, →ISBN, page 31:

But he wasn’t responding to her messages on his Lucky Dog e-dress.

2007, Richard Hawke, Cold Day in Hell, Random House, →ISBN:

Unmunge my e-dress (I think its self explanatory).

2010 July 29, Adelle, “Re: Formatting replies”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

An email address, a unique identifier specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.


cookie

→ Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)

→ Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk¹ kei⁴)

→ Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)

→ Catalan: cookie

→ Cebuano: kokis

→ French: cookie

→ Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)

→ German: Cookie

→ Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)

→ Hindi: कुकी (kukī)

→ Italian: cookie

→ Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)

→ Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)

→ Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)

→ Malay: kuki

→ Polish: cookie

→ Portuguese: cookie

→ Russian: куки (kuki)

→ Spanish: cookie

→ Swedish: cookie

→ Tagalog: kuki

→ Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)

→ Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

koekie

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit


squat

en-verb

squat (third-person singular simple present squats, present participle squatting, simple past and past participle squatted)

squats (present singular third-person)
squatting (participle present)
squatted (participle past)
squatted (past)

From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” may be the source or a derivation of diddly-squat.

uder

The old homepage for L2TP, www.l2tpd.org, has been squatted by a domain squatter. A malicious person could reinstate this domain with malicious code on it.

2006, Paul Wouters, Ken Bantoft, Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan:


IRA

Internet Research Agency
w:Internet Research Agency

(Internet, politics) Initialism of Internet Research Agency.


necromancy

en-noun

necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

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Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy.

der

νεκρομαντεία


blogosphere

/ˈblɒɡ.əʊˌsfɪɚ/

From blog + -o- + -sphere, possibly under the influence of biosphere, atmosphere, etc.

2004 Air America Radio http://www.airamericaradio.com/
Regular guest and blogger, Kos of DailyKos.com, provides Sam and Janeane the latest information from the blogosphere.

The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.

2005 February 11, Lawrence Kudlow, National Review Online:

there's some talk, as you said, on the blogosphere, that this book is controversial, but I think more properly it's a contribution...

2006 October 8, Lee Smolin (interviewee), Steve Paulson (interviewer), To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Future Physics”, Wisconsin Public Radio, program 06-10-08-A, segment 1

(Internet) The totality of blogs, especially the unique jargon, cultures and shared interests created by their interconnection.


surfing

en-noun

surfing (usually uncountable, plural surfings)

→ Japanese: サーフィン (sāfin)

→ Korean: 서핑 (seoping)

To J. M. Duffin, former student and now assistant archivist at the University of Pennsylvania, thanks for courteous surfings of the Internet for missing dates, publishers, and other embarrassing gaps in my text.

(Internet) The activity of browsing the Internet.


e-quaintance

From acquaintance, replacing ac- (ad) with e- (“electronic”), by analogy with e-mail.

(Internet) a person known exclusively online, usually from instant messaging such as AIM, or through internet dating personals.

(Internet) the state of knowing exclusively online


e-quainted

en-adj

e-quainted (comparative more e-quainted, superlative most e-quainted)

more e-quainted (comparative)
most e-quainted (superlative)

People I was thrilled to meet after being e-quainted forever: […]

1997 February 22, Kathleen Swanholt, “Correction and LCC”, in bit.listserv.dorothyl (Usenet):

I'm e-quainted with someone who goes to the VA there and he says he sees Indian groceries when he goes there.

1997 September 12, TJ, “Re: basmati rice”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):

2000, Russell Merris, Graph Theory, Wiley-IEEE, →ISBN, page 195,
Let’s say two people are e-quainted if, during the past year, they participated together in one or more of the same chat room discussions. Otherwise, call them e-stranged. Then any two people attending the convention’s introductory cocktail party will be either e-quainted or e-stranged.

I am e-quainted with a Catherine who became Cathrin, also for Goff reasons.

2004 December 7, Dave Larrington, “Re: Cynical? moi?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

(Internet) Acquainted by means of online communication.


oshi

For me, my Oshi is Watame. I find her content very relaxing and calming, it helps bring me a smile whenever I see that wonderful sheep doing anything and it’s sometimes exactly what I need after a stressful day at work. I really admire all the hard work she puts into her music as well as how inclusive she always attempts to be as far as reaching out to overseas fans with everything. Everything about her just makes me feel happy and I really value everything she does here at HoloLive.

2022 April 19, /u/Daniel101773, Who’s your Oshi & why?:

(VTuber fandom slang) A person’s favorite VTuber, idol, or character, especially one they actively support and promote.


RSS feed

(Internet) An XML document that follows the RSS ("Rich Site Summary") specification, used for syndication.


aggregator

(Internet) An online feed reader used to keep track of updates to blogs, etc.


Googlish

Googlish (comparative more Googlish, superlative most Googlish)

more Googlish (comparative)
most Googlish (superlative)

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This is the Googlish way to do directory services.

"Innovation" has become a key word in journalism education, as schools attempt to create a Googlish culture that provides students with the ability to create their own platforms, technologies, and techniques for journalistic reporting and storytelling.

2017, Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control:

(Internet, informal) Resembling or in the manner of Google.


netsplit

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(Internet) A technical glitch encountered when two or more IRC servers lose their connection to each other, dividing the network into a number of isolated groups of users.


netsplit

en-verb

netsplit (third-person singular simple present netsplits, present participle netsplitting, simple past and past participle netsplitted)

netsplits (present singular third-person)
netsplitting (participle present)
netsplitted (participle past)
netsplitted (past)

(Internet, transitive) To leave an IRC server as a result of a netsplit.


instance

en-noun

instance (countable and uncountable, plural instances)

Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.

der

To collect the messages, we select the mstdn.jp as the target instance. The mstdn.jp is one of the major Mastodon instances that has 123,331 users and connects to the 2415 other instances at 26 Feb 2017.

2017, Masaki Kohana et al., “A Topic Trend on P2P Based Social Media”, in Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa, Tomoya Enokido, editors, Advances in Network-Based Information Systems: The 20th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2017), page 1140:

In a poll I conducted on Mastodon, 42% of the 674 respondents said that they had reported something, whether it had been a spam account or hateful content, to their instance's moderator.

2022, Derek Caelin, “Decentralized Networks vs The Trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi, Kate Seaman, Michael H. Allen, editors, Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity, page 157:

Every Mastodon instance (neighborhood) has a code of conduct that you have to agree to before you join (move in).

2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister, Mastodon for Dummies, page 14:

(Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.


channel

→ Japanese: チャンネル (channeru)

→ Korean: 채널 (chaeneol)

→ Welsh: sianel

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

kanal

communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation

kanaal

broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television

The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays the channel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on the channel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of the channel or the current topic of conversation: […]

1996, Susan C. Herring, Computer-mediated Communication, page 50:

(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.

Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.

1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide:

To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.

1999, Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference:

(Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.


POTD

(Internet) Initialism of picture of the day.


mud

en-verb

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

muds (present singular third-person)
mudding (participle present)
mudded (participle past)
mudded (past)

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

1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153:

(intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.


blogophile

A person who is fond of blogs or blogging.


UDP

en-noun

UDP (countable and uncountable, plural UDPs)

Usenet Death Penalty
Usenet Death Penalty#English

(Internet, Usenet) Initialism of Usenet Death Penalty.


IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
w:Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

(Internet) Acronym of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.


ratio

→ Portuguese: rácio

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/

Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason.

(Internet) The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes; a high ratio suggests disagreement with the contents of the original post.


ratio

en-verb

ratio (third-person singular simple present ratios, present participle ratioing, simple past and past participle ratioed)

ratios (present singular third-person)
ratioing (participle present)
ratioed (participle past)
ratioed (past)

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/

The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.

It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.

2019, Henry Chisholm, "'Who Cares? It's women's hoops'", Montana Kaimin (The University of Montana), 30 January 2019 - 5 February 2019, page 29

And, just FYI, here's how brutally the public ratioed that tweet.

2021 January 27, Leigh Tauss, “Ghost Roast”, in INDY Week, page 4:

It is essential that you ratio anyone who comes for your honour.

2021, @suburbanpoet, "Ratio or be Ratioed: Reluctant notes on Twitter", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 4, Semester 2 (2021), page 16

(transitive, Internet slang) To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.


revert war

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(Internet) A dispute on a wiki or in a git repository where two users repeatedly revert one another's changes to an article.


home page

From home + page. First attested in 1992.

Creating Your Own Home Page
The home page provided by CERN is a good entry point into the Web; it points you to a lot of resources fairly quickly.

1992, Ed Krol, The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog, page 240:

(Internet) The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents.


burner

→ Japanese: バーナー (bānā)

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information.

2021 June 8, Andy Martino, Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN:

(Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.


SEO

en-noun

SEO (countable and uncountable, plural SEOs)

Coordinate term: ASO

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

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

search engine optimization
search engine optimization#English

(uncountable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimization.

Several people that I spoke to made a similar point: the best SEOs are the ones that follow Google's rules, which essentially ask you to make amazing websites without even thinking about Google. You are not supposed to make any attempt to artificially boost a website's ranking; you are supposed to be designing websites for human readers, not for the algorithm. And many SEOs do exactly this kind of work: rewriting copy, making a site load more quickly, etc. But the existence of good SEOs does not negate the presence of scammers and idiots and people who get ahead by violating Google's terms of service, just as the mild-mannered teacher's pet in a classroom does not negate the obnoxious shouting of the kids that refuse to behave. A few loud kids can easily drown everyone else out.

2023 November 1, Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The people who ruined the internet”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2024-06-08:

(countable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimizer.


cancel

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

der

A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.


baddie

Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.

2020, Kenshi Hayabusa, The Road to Becoming a Bad Bitch: How I Overcame Low-Self Esteem and Negativity, Hayabusa Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.

2021, Priya-Alika Elias, Besharam: On Love and Other Bad Behaviors, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”

2021, Shauna Pomerantz, Miriam Field, “A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent–Child Generativity”, in Fiona Blaikie, editor, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging, Abingdon, England: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:

On Instagram, baddies and models of every ethnicity rock fashion and beauty trends that Black women either created or popularized: cornrows, oversized door knocker earrings, long, intricately designed acrylic nails, artfully sculpted baby hairs.

2021, Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

(neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.


whisper

From Middle English whisperen, from Old English hwisprian (“to mutter, murmur, whisper”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwisprōn, from Proto-Germanic *hwisprōną (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweys-, *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”).
Cognate with Dutch wisperen (“to whisper”), German wispern (“to mumble, whisper”). Related also to Danish hviske (“to whisper”), Icelandic hvískra (“to whisper”), Norwegian Bokmål hviske, kviskre (“to whisper”), Norwegian Nynorsk kviskre, kviskra (“to whisper”), Swedish viska (“to whisper”). More at English whistle.

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The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction […]

2002, Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars, page 218:

Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.

2004, Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education, page 179:

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

yksityisviesti

internet: private message in a chat room


whisper

en-verb

whisper (third-person singular simple present whispers, present participle whispering, simple past and past participle whispered)

whispers (present singular third-person)
whispering (participle present)
whispered (participle past)
whispered (past)

(Internet) To send a private message to an individual in a chat room.


organic

en-adj

organic (comparative more organic, superlative most organic)

more organic (comparative)
most organic (superlative)

From Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.

According to a recent survey by Jupiter Research, 80 percent of Web users get information from organic search results.

2008, Michael Masterson, MaryEllen Tribby, Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Millions for Your Business:

(Internet, marketing, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to deliberate promotional techniques e.g. by advertisers.


wicket

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

(Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.


ghit

/ˈd͡ʒiːˌhɪt/

A contraction of Google hit; coined on 3 February 2004 by “Trevor” on his blog k’ɑləbøl: see the quotations from him and from American linguist Mark Liberman on his Language Log blog (9 February 2004), below.

Igry (1/2/3) – a (research-driven?) neologism expressing a voyeuristic, laissez-faire sense of shame – already gets slightly more ghits (ca 200 to 175, once you've sifted out the Russians) than its Catalan equivalent, vergonya aliena, although it's still way behind plaatsvervangende schaamte and vergüenza ajena (not to mention verguenza ajena).

2004 February 3, “Trevor”, “Shame”, in k’ɑləbøl, archived from the original on 2015-09-22:

For me, though, the most important thing in his post is the neologism ghits. Now there's a word that fills a need! I don't know if this is Trevor's coinage, but it seems to be pretty new: "ghits" has 2380 ghits, at the moment, but all the 50 or so that I checked were programming language variable names, words in languages other than English, alternative spellings of "gits", or jokes like "ghits and siggles". Anyhow, I'm in Trevor's debt for the tip, and if he's the author, he deserves immortal renown. […] Update: it seems that Trevor is the responsible party. He's posted that / I am having 1,500 cards printed with "ghit = google hit © 2004 followthebaldie.com" and am going to flog them down the Ramblas this lunchtime. I am unsure as to whether this constitutes a business plan.

2004 February 9, Mark Liberman, “Igry and Ghits”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 2016-07-03:

"Fifth wheel" is a common expression for superfluity, common in frames like "feel like a fifth wheel" (538 ghits), but it's not so commonly used in the frame "ADJ as a ___".

2004 August 8, Mark Liberman, “Superfluity and Uselessness”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 2016-10-01:

I'm quite baffled, in fact, that there are so few ghits (Google hits) for this search, as the idea seems so obvious. Even if you spell it without the final 's', you end up with only one extra ghit.

2004 October 22, “David”, “Searching Sue de Nimes”, in TEFL Smiler: A British EFL Teacher Comments on His Life and Applied Linguistics, archived from the original on 2006-03-02:

(Internet) Contraction of Google hit: a hit obtained using the search engine Google.


plus

en-verb

plus (third-person singular simple present pluses or plusses, present participle plusing or plussing, simple past and past participle plused or plussed)

pluses (present singular third-person)
plusses (present singular third-person)
plusing (participle present)
plussing (participle present)
plused (participle past)
plused (past)
plussed (participle past)
plussed (past)

Coordinate term: like

How do you get others to add you or your brand to their circles? By creating and sharing useful content, commenting, plussing others' content and comments, and engaging with others on Google+.

2012, Lee Odden, Optimize, →ISBN, page 111:

Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.

2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., →ISBN, page 279:

(social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.


mousetrap

en-noun

mousetrap (countable and uncountable, plural mousetraps)

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From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse + trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse.

(countable, Internet) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.


mousetrap

en-verb

mousetrap (third-person singular simple present mousetraps, present participle mousetrapping, simple past and past participle mousetrapped)

mousetraps (present singular third-person)
mousetrapping (participle present)
mousetrapped (participle past)
mousetrapped (past)

The scammer is paid for each new visitor directed to his site. There is nothing wrong except that the user finds it impossible to leave the site because he is mousetrapped.

(Internet, transitive) To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed.


social

en-adj

social (comparative more social, superlative most social)

more social (comparative)
most social (superlative)

From Middle French social, from Latin sociālis (“of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social”), from socius (“a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally”), from sequor (“follow”). Cognate with English seg (“man, companion, fellow”). More at seg.

der

social gaming

(Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.

социаль

internet: relating to social media or social networks


social

en-noun

social (countable and uncountable, plural socials)

“I saw that shift, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s the future of social,’” Systrom said.

2023 January 31, Casey Newton, quoting Kevin Systrom, “Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text”, in The Verge:

(Internet, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of social media.

Also check out some other experts in this topic — their socials are in the pinned comment below.

Close your mouth and delete all your socials tonight.

2019 August 29, “Cheeto Christ Stupid Czar”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Andrew Lloyd Webber (music)performed by Randy Rainbow:

(Internet, informal, countable) A social media account; the username or handle thereof, or a link thereto.


stream

en-verb

stream (third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed)

streams (present singular third-person)
streaming (participle present)
streamed (participle past)
streamed (past)

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian strum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).

cog

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

I did factor in the whole, like, "oh, I wonder if doing streaming, and the money that's kind of attached to it, is the reason I wanted to do this?", like, is it warping my brain? I did think about that. I've streamed for years and it's been my entire life and I've made a lot of money off it, and I wondered if that's what's affecting me and making me want to do this. And it's not.

2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 1:40 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 2024-05-14:


photoblog

A type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs.

photoblog

a type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs


script kiddie

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Generally speaking, script kiddies are bored individuals without girlfriends or boyfriends who can think of nothing better to do on a Saturday night than make people come into work to fix a failing system.

2003, Kevin Day, Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 126:

It is important to realize that the motive behind the script kiddie or recreational hacker is a more ego-driven destruction of data without a hidden moral, political, or economic agenda.

2011, Will Gragido, John Pirc, Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats, Newnes, →ISBN, page 115:

(informal, derogatory) A (usually amateur) hacker who compromises files on others' computers or launches attacks on computer systems, using widely distributed computer programs or scripts rather than developing their own.


mutual

Borrowed from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mūtuus.

(Internet) Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts.


website

→ Car Nicobarese: vep sait

→ Danish: website

→ Dutch: website

→ German: Website f

desc

→ Japanese: ウェブサイト, サイト

→ Japanese: ウェブサイト, サイト

→ Persian: وبسایت (veb-sâyt)

→ Marathi: वेबसाईट (vebsāīṭ)

→ Portuguese: website

→ Russian: веб-са́йт (veb-sájt), сайт (sajt)

→ Spanish: website

→ Swedish: webbsajt, sajt

→ Ukrainian: веб-са́йт (veb-sájt)

Meronym: webpage

You can find complete information about the products on the company's website.

(Internet) A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

webwerf

a collection of pages on the World Wide Web

Béésh Łichíʼii biyiʼdóó ił Nahazʼą́ baa Haneʼ


query

en-verb

query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)

queries (present singular third-person)
querying (participle present)
queried (participle past)
queried (past)

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk...

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

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):

(transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).


canonical

Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.

2015, Simon Kloostra, Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance, page 63:

(Internet) A URL presented in canonical form.


FA

en-noun

FA (countable and uncountable, plural FAs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of featured article.


LP

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(Internet) Abbreviation of landing page.

(online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.


World Wide Web

From worldwide + web, coined by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) and Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist Robert Cailliau (born 1947) in a paper published on 12 November 1990: see the quotation.

coinage

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project [title] […] Having a world wide web implies some solutions must be found for problems such as different access protocols and different node content formats. These issues are addressed by our proposal.

[1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), archived from the original on 2020-11-10:

Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.

1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A web of networks, an abundance of services”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-09, page 8:

Anxiety about the World Wide Web tends to center on its excesses, on the overabundance of information, the overstimulation of graphics and gimmicks, the multiplicity of links.

2000, Jodi Dean, “Webs of Conspiracy”, in Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss, editors, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 63:

Although the Internet has long been used to communicate a wealth of information, it was the rise of the World Wide Web, beginning in 1994, that led to the Internet's most rapid growth and acceptance as a medium of commerce. The Web can be thought of as the Internet's popular "multimedia" segment and is a primary platform for electronic commerce.

2003, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, “Introduction to the Internet”, in Doing Business on the Internet (Intellectual Property Law Series), New York, N.Y.: Law Journal Press, →ISBN, § 1.03 (The World Wide Web), page 1-6.4:

Consider for a moment that the Internet is about 40 years old, the microelectronics explosion happened only 30 years ago, the desktop computer appeared only about 25 years ago, the World Wide Web is really only a little more than a decade old, and that ubiquitous wireless Internet access is only now becoming a reality. Despite only relatively recent developmental history, we are facing an information explosion on the World Wide Web, making it necessary to build a better Web—an Intelligent Web—that will help users easily realize their information and communication needs.

2008, Rajendra Akerkar, Pawan Lingras, “Introduction to Web Intelligence”, in Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, section 1.1 (Historical Perspective), page 1:

(Internet) Usually preceded by the: collectively, all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet stored in different computers around the world that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media, and are typically retrieved by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).

Wêreldwye web

all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media

Isizindalwazi sokuxhumana somhlaba jikelele


e-commerce

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The last thing you need to do before launching the e-commerce site is enable credit card processing.

2006, Cristian Darie, Karli Watson, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005, Apress, →ISBN, page xxi:

(Internet, business) Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.

تِجَارَة إِلِكْتْرُونِيَّة

commercial activity conducted via the Internet


admin

en-noun

admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

Clipping of administrator or administration.

The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.

(countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.


post

en-verb

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)

→ Finnish: postata

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

der

I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.


forum

→ Italian: forum

→ Korean: 포럼 (poreom)

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero.

Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.


status

en-noun

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

→ Cantonese: status

Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, many accents

Learned borrowing from Latin status. Doublet of state and estate.

I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight

2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree:

(social media) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

status

social networking: function of some instant messaging applications


crawl

en-verb

crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)

crawls (present singular third-person)
crawling (participle present)
crawled (participle past)
crawled (past)

→ German: kraulen

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

cog

Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl websites faster and more efficiently.

(transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

抓取

to index files or web sites in order to make them available for search


favourite

Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“I favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori.


favourite

en-verb

favourite (third-person singular simple present favourites, present participle favouriting, simple past and past participle favourited)

favourites (present singular third-person)
favouriting (participle present)
favourited (participle past)
favourited (past)

(Internet) To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists.


NSFW

en-adj

NSFW (comparative more NSFW, superlative most NSFW)

more NSFW (comparative)
most NSFW (superlative)

(Internet, initialism) Initialism of not safe for work.; i.e., containing inappropriate or adult content (e.g. pornography or profanity) that might be offensive to employees and co-workers.


signature

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

nc

Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height.

forum signature generator

(Internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.


nudge

Circa 17th century, perhaps of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian nugge, nyggje (“to push, rub, shove”), Icelandic nugga (“to rub, massage”), from the root of Proto-Germanic *hnōjaną (“to smooth, join together”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (compare Ancient Greek κνάω (knáō, “to scratch, scrape”), source of English acnestis).
Compare also Scots nodge (“to push, poke, nudge”), knidge (“to push, squeeze”), gnidge (“to rub, press, squeeze, bruise”), and knudge (“to squeeze, press down with the knuckles”), Saterland Frisian Nukke, Nuk (“a sudden push”), Middle Low German nucke, nücke, gnücke (“a sudden push, shock, impetus”). Compare also dialectal nuch (“to tremble”), Middle English nuchen (“to tremble”).

cog

(Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.


haul

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

cog

Then there are the YouTube hauls, the oddly viral videos of influencers showing off what they got for Christmas. In her 2017 haul that's been watched 1.7 million times, Olivia Jade – a 19-year-old beauty and fashion tipster and the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin – sat on a plush white bed in polar bear pyjamas and a Santa hat. One by one, she showed off a bottle of Valentino perfume ("sweet mixed with floral"), a cropped, purple fuzzy sweater from Urban Outfitters, bikinis, sneakers, jeans, underwear, high heels, dresses, tops and more.

2018 December 24, Rachel Siegel, “Holiday shopping in the age of Instagram”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, N.S.W.: Nine Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-23:

(Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).


scheme

→ Irish: scéim

→ Malay: skim

Borrowed from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

der

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier

(Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

skeema

internet: part of a uniform resource identifier that indicates purpose


mail relay

(Internet) A device or program that routes an e-mail to the correct destination.


VoIP

The VoIP Forum is dedicated to enabling and promoting industry-wide interoperability between products that send telephony over the Internet and private IP enterprise networks. This interoperability will allow seamless transmission of Internet phone calls regardless of the telephony application used by callers and call recipients. At present, applications from different vendors are incompatible due to fundamental differences in voice coding, silence suppression, addressing and dialing plans, call management and other related functions.

1996 November 12, IMTC, Inc., comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-03, message-ID <telecom16.627.2@massis.lcs.mit.edu>:

VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says. "It's very important," and is good news for users, because their co-operation will move Internet telephony forward, he says.

1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 2016-11-03:

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.


karma

en-noun

karma (countable and uncountable, plural karmas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्म (kárma), nom.sg. of कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”); first attested in English in 1785 in a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins.

(Internet) A score assigned to a user or post on some discussion forums, indicating popularity or perceived value.


inorganic

/ɪnɔɹˈɡænɪk/

/ɪnɔːˈɡænɪk/

(Internet, marketing, of search results) Not generated by the ranking algorithms of a search engine, but deliberately by promotional techniques.


nbsp

I also changed OutputToString and OutputToStream to check for an empty document when requesting plain text, in which case they'll return an empty string or stream. This fixes the bug where we'd send back an nbsp in the string.

1999 September 8, Simon Fraser, “fixes for empty doc testing and output”, in netscape.public.mozilla.editor (Usenet):

You need the nbsp in order for the cell to show like a regular cell (otherwise you get that "raised" looking space -- if you know what I mean).

2001 June 4, Fox, “Netscape: DIV within a table?”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):

Incidentally - I noticed myself that GL doesn't automatically put a nbsp in table cells.

2003 June 6, "S Chapman", "Help me upgrade from PageMill !", in adobe.golive.windows, Usenet

non-breaking space
non-breaking space#English

(HTML) Initialism of non-breaking space.


WikiProject

Compound of wiki + project. Coined before 26 September 2001 (see quotations) by Wikipedian Manning Bartlett, creator of the concept earlier that month.

This is the WikiProject page for SPORTS

2001 September 26, Manning Bartlett, “basic framework - lots more work needed”, in Wikipedia:

Through Wikiproject Medicine, some medical professionals (and other health-savvy Wikipedia editors) have taken it upon themselves to improve the quality of medical information available on the site.

2013 October 1, Julie Beck, “Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

Wikipedia is made up of thousands of WikiProjects—groups of editors who work together to tackle articles on similar topics—but not all of them offer the same level of training that [Susan] Gerbic does.

2018 July 25, “The ’Guerrilla’ Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:

A WikiProject, among other things, includes a page of reliable sources for editors to pull from.

2020 August 7, Travis M. Andrews, “Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:

Some pages can be "locked" and cannot be changed until one of more than 200 volunteer editors on WikiProject Covid-19, many of whom are doctors or academics, review it.

2020 October 22, Donald G[erard] McNeil Jr., “Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-11:

(Wikimedia jargon) A group of editors who work together on improving the coverage of a particular topic on a wiki, especially on Wikipedia.


highlight

en-verb

highlight (third-person singular simple present highlights, present participle highlighting, simple past and past participle highlighted or (nonstandard) highlit)

highlights (present singular third-person)
highlighting (participle present)
highlighted (participle past)
highlighted (past)
highlit (nonstandard participle past)
highlit (nonstandard past)

You could have asked: is there a reason this easy patch was not applied, either on IRC or private mail by me. You did write a comment on IRC and I did see it. Problem is that you did not highlight me _and_ you did not wait for an answer.

2006, Frans Pop, “Re: Bug#378404: installation guide: one more additional proposal”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet):

You must be somewhere completely different. I’ve looked for several days and don’t see you. But: I’m kind of blind from time to time - please feel free to highlight me ([Sno]) or probably (H. Merijn Brand) Tux or vanHoesel (Theo van Hoesel).

2013, Jens Rehsack, “Re: AnyData open API”, in perl.dbi.dev (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To seek the attention of (a user) on IRC by mentioning their name in a message, causing that message to appear highlighted on their screen.


WS

en-noun

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

(Internet, Web) Initialism of Web service.


NPOV

Near-synonyms: point-of-viewlessness; eticness

The NPOV is self-consciously a view, not the absence of all views.

2007, Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén, “From Social to Socialist Media: The Critical Potential of the Wikiworld”, in Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, editors, Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?, Peter Lang, section 147:

Similarly, it is also important to understand the fundamental operation of NPOV in full detail: contrary to the synthesis commonly required for the coverage of topics in conventional encyclopedias, NPOV does not require the establishment of a universally accepted consensus description of the topic at hand—a kind of graveyard peace between opposing factions, achieved through arrival at a compromise which satisfies no one and omits any controversial points not acceptable to one of the participants.

2008, Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, Peter Lang, section 120:

Content creators and editors are encouraged to filter material through a sieve of strict standards known to insiders as NPOV, NOR, RS, and V.

2015, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Comprehensive, 18th edition, Cengage Learning, section 332:

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of neutral point of view - the guideline of all Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles.


black box

en-verb

black box (third-person singular simple present black boxes, present participle black boxing, simple past and past participle black boxed)

black boxes (present singular third-person)
black boxing (participle present)
black boxed (participle past)
black boxed (past)

black box
black box#History
flight recorder#Terminology

* Since circa 1945 in both main senses (that is, event recorders and objects with unknown innards), which are historically related to each other; for details, see black box § History and flight recorder § Terminology.
* (type of theater): Such theaters are often painted black.

(web development) To focus on the inputs and outputs without worrying about the internal complexity.


transit

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

transits (present singular third-person)
transiting (participle present)
transited (participle past)
transited (past)

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

der

(Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.


rem

Like the em unit, the rem unit is based on declared font size. The difference—and it’s a doozy—is that whereas em is calculated using the font size of the element to which it’s applied, rem is always calculated using the root element.

2017, Eric A Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, Kindle edition, O'Reilly Media, page 126:

(web design) A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in an HTML document.


weblog

From Web + log, coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.

A Weblog is updated as often as the writer decides and can include photographs and links to other sites around the Web. There are different ways to create a Weblog, and you do not need your own file server.

2002 July 25, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Your World, Online: Setting Up a Weblog”, in New York Times:

The case of the Loufan landslide indicates how a mainstream journalist-blogger used his weblog to expose the cover-up of an accident in north-west China.

2011, Xin Xin, “Web 2.0, citizen journalism and social justice in China”, in Graham Meikle, Guy Redden, editors, News Online: Transformations and Continuities, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:

(Internet, dated) A website in the form of an ongoing journal.


CP

en-noun

CP (countable and uncountable, plural CPs)

child pornography
child pornography#English

(Internet, euphemistic) Initialism of child pornography.


kiboze

en-verb

kiboze (third-person singular simple present kibozes, present participle kibozing, simple past and past participle kibozed)

kibozes (present singular third-person)
kibozing (participle present)
kibozed (participle past)
kibozed (past)

back-formation from kibozing, itself an agglutination of Kibo + bozo + ing http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.kibology/browse_thread/thread/222e8778f60a70b2/4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8?lnk=st&q=kibozing#4fa5dcbe6d0bfdc8.

The idiot apparently adds spaces to people's names to prevent kibozing. It doesn't help when you're replying to me in a newsgroup I read; I'll find that article just fine. Besides, I don't kiboze. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/misc.fitness.weights/msg/452e24b785207bb5

(Internet) To search the Usenet news for a string, particularly one's name or nickname, especially with the intention of posting a follow-up, as popularized by James "Kibo" Parry.


podcast

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
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
English internetwork
English Internet
English i-
English pod
English iPodblend.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brood
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcastblend.
English podcast
Blend of iPod (“portable music player made by Apple”) + broadcast, probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.

coinage

There's no restriction for what a podcast should and should not be. Of course, if you cover all these topics and more, you may find it harder to find an audience than if you focus on a narrower range and cover it well. Finding listeners is simpler if your podcast can be summarized in a sentence. More people will sample your show if it fits in a category in a podcast directory—like that found in the iTunes Store—than if it ends up lumped in a generic catch-all list.

2007, Andy [J. Williams] Affleck, “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN; republished in “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting (1.0), San Diego, Calif.: Alt Concepts, 2020, →ISBN:

Try listening to a mix of well-known podcasts. You'll soon find that the best always feature hosts that have their own unique voice.

2016, Matthew Anniss, Create Your Own Podcast, Capstone, →ISBN, page 20:

A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

(loosely, by extension) An individual episode of such a program.


podcast

en-verb

podcast (third-person singular simple present podcasts, present participle podcasting, simple past and past participle podcasted or podcast)

podcasts (present singular third-person)
podcasting (participle present)
podcasted (participle past)
podcasted (past)
podcast (participle past)
podcast (past)

lähettää podcastina

to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices

lähettää podcastia

to deliver a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

(intransitive) To deliver a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.


me too

me too (third-person singular simple present me toos, present participle me tooing, simple past and past participle me tooed)

me toos (present singular third-person)
me tooing (participle present)
me tooed (participle past)
me tooed (past)

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This is a big ME TOO for the list of things to do when you are bored.
(I asked for it in r.h.d a while back and got no response so I feel justified in ``me tooing.)

1990 January 14, Tamara Schacham, “big me to for things to do”, in rec.humor (Usenet):

I was put in mind of the possibility because of a recent thread in which someone claimed that some vegetable which I like tasted like soap to him and several others me tooed it.

1997 July 13, Rich Clancey <rhc@world.std.com>, “weak lemon and soap”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):

I know me tooing is frowned upon, but me too!

2001 May 28, Vegard Valberg <Vvalberg@online.no>, “Re: WI Pearl Harbor Done Right -- Part 2”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet):

I'm more or less agreeing with you too (but don't let Moby hear-he'll accuse me of me tooing).

2002 July 19, Ken Higgs <kenhiggs8@hotmail.com>, “Re: Bring on the Aussies...”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet):

(Internet slang, Usenet) To agree with someone.


blogcast

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Nigerian scam

The scam messages usually claim to originate from Nigeria, though this is often a spoof.

Even savvy Internet users have fallen victim to the ubiquitous Nigerian scam.

(Internet) An attempt to defraud by sending out large numbers of emails, each stating that the recipient is entitled to receive a large amount of money, but will need to supply banking account details, or to send payment for fees, before the payment can be passed on.


postmaster

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(Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.


WIMP

Internet Information Services
w:Internet Information Services

(Internet software) Initialism of Windows, Internet Information Services, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Perl/Python.


ham e-mail

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Chosen as an opposite for spam (junk e-mail), both words being meat products.

(Internet) E-mail that is wanted by the recipient and is not considered spam.


DMZ host

(Internet) A single node in a DMZ, typically protected by a firewall, sometimes hidden by NAT. Usually, DMZ hosts accept incoming external connections, but they cannot initiate connections with internal hosts.


broadband

en-noun

broadband (usually uncountable, plural broadbands)

(Internet) An Internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or a cable modem.


partial

From Middle English partiall, parcial, from Old French parcial (“biased or particular”), from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”).

der

In fact, as seen in Chapters 5 and 6, the resulting document is usually the product of rendering a layout, which yields the rendering of the template at hand, which in turn can invoke the rendering of other templates and/or one or more partials.

2009, Antonio Cangiano, Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers, page 356:

(programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.


egocasting

(Internet) The portrayal of an individual ego or personality through a network, such as in an Internet forum, weblog, podcast, or photoblog.


sig

Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.

1995, Vince Emery, How to grow your business on the Internet:

Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.

2004, Brad Hill, Building Your Business with Google For Dummies, page 48:

(Internet, informal) A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.


nav

Standing and moving to under one of the lights by the nav station I could see a dark blue-red mark across the right side of my rib cage. Prodding gently I realised I had just cracked or broken one or more ribs.

2013, Crispin Latymer, Where the Ocean Meets the Sky, page 48:

(transport, military, Internet) Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.


outset

en-verb

outset (third-person singular simple present outsets, present participle outsetting, simple past and past participle outset)

outsets (present singular third-person)
outsetting (participle present)
outset (participle past)
outset (past)

(Internet, CSS, transitive) To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.


page flow

(computing, Internet) A directory of web application files that work together to implement a user interface feature.


DNS

Domain Name System
Domain Name System#English

(Internet) Initialism of Domain Name System.

(computing, Internet) The protocol used by the Domain Name System.

Domain Name Services
domain name services

(Internet) Domain Name Services; the services provided by the Domain Name System.


spod

(Internet) One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.


IMDb

(initialism) The Internet Movie Database, a website that documents movies and television shows.


Internet Protocol

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(Internet) A communication protocol that enables networking a large number of computers to the Internet by providing the basis for packet switching, routing, addressing and other essential functions of the net.

Internetprotokol

one of the computer networking protocols


Gmail

He has a Gmail account.

For now, it’s hard to conclude that Sunak will succeed in rebooting a government that’s been reset more times than most people’s Gmail passwords.

2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:

(trademark) A webbased e-mail system provided by Google (trademarked Gmail).


gank

gank (third-person singular simple present ganks, present participle ganking, simple past and past participle ganked)

ganks (present singular third-person)
ganking (participle present)
ganked (participle past)
ganked (past)

Our group totally ganked this guy.

(transitive, Internet, online gaming, slang) To kill much weaker players in an online video game in such a way that they cannot defend themselves.


(Internet) Internet2, the state-of-the-art network connecting multiple research universities.

(Internet) InterMUD 2, a protocol for instant communication between MUDs via the Internet.


(Internet) Abbreviation of InterMUD-3, a protocol for instant communication between MUDs via the Internet.


counter

→ Japanese: カウンター

→ Korean: 카운터 (kaunteo)

→ Malay: kaunter

desc

→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

Inherited from Middle English countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin computātōrium, from Latin computō, equivalent to count + -er. Doublet of cantore, computer, and kontor.

doublet

[ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ]


HTTPS

(Internet) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, an extension to HTTP that uses an encrypted form of data transfer on the Internet.


sticker

From stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) + -er (“agent”).

affix

(Internet) A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.


wired

en-adj

wired (comparative more wired, superlative most wired)

more wired (comparative)
most wired (superlative)

In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.

2002, Derek Da Cunha, Singapore in the new millennium: challenges facing the city-state, page 247:

Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired. Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS[…]

2004 December, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 38, number 3, page 44:

(informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.


sock puppet

en-verb

sock puppet (third-person singular simple present sock puppets, present participle sock puppeting, simple past and past participle sock puppeted)

sock puppets (present singular third-person)
sock puppeting (participle present)
sock puppeted (participle past)
sock puppeted (past)

(wiki jargon, transitive, intransitive) To create or use a sock puppet (alternative user account).


oversight

oversight (third-person singular simple present oversights, present participle oversighting, simple past and past participle oversighted)

oversights (present singular third-person)
oversighting (participle present)
oversighted (participle past)
oversighted (past)

/ˈəʊvəˌsaɪt/

From over- + sight. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Aufsicht.

sl

(Internet, transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.


poster

→ Burmese: ပိုစတာ (puica.ta)

→ Catalan: pòster

→ Catalan: pòster

→ Dutch: poster

→ Finnish: posteri

→ French: poster
→ Turkish: poster

→ German: Poster

→ Hindi: पोस्टर (posṭar)

→ Hungarian: poszter

→ Irish: póstaer

→ Italian: poster

→ Japanese: ポスター (posutā)

→ Korean: 포스터 (poseuteo)

→ Malay: poster

→ Manx: posteyr

→ Persian: پوستر (poster)

→ Polish: poster

→ Portuguese: pôster, póster (Portugal)

→ Romanian: poster

→ Russian: по́стер (póstɛr)

→ Spanish: póster

→ Swedish: poster

→ Tagalog: poster

→ Thai: โปสเตอร์ (bpóos-dtə̂ə))

→ Welsh: poster

Some posters left the online message board after the squabble.


googlebomb

en-verb

googlebomb (third-person singular simple present googlebombs, present participle googlebombing, simple past and past participle googlebombed)

googlebombs (present singular third-person)
googlebombing (participle present)
googlebombed (participle past)
googlebombed (past)

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(Internet) To fill a web page with links or words in order to gain a high Google page ranking.

googlebombe

To fill a web page with links or words to gain a high Google page ranking


dashboard

/ˈdæʃˌbɔː(ɹ)d/

/ˈdæʃˌboəɹd/

/ˈdæʃˌbɔːɹd/

From dash (“to sprinkle; to splatter”) + board for meaning 1. Possibly expanded meaning later.

compound

It's so addictive, I all too often find myself just scrolling down my dashboard on Tumblr, finding things that other people have reblogged that appeal to me, reblogging, then continuing to scroll.

2012, "Grace", quoted in Jennifer Obee, Social Networking: The Ultimate Teen Guide, page 110

I began following other fat-positive Tumblrs, and soon my dashboard was filled with positive representations of fatness: pictures, stories, quotes, and links to articles and blogs.

2014, Cat Pausé, “Express Yourself: Fat Activism in the Web 2.0 Age”, in Ragen Chastain, editor, The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement, page 3:

Though I rarely use it anymore, absently scrolling through my dashboard acquainted me with many new people from all around the world, and it helped me understand myself in new ways.

2022, Barrie Shannon, Sex(uality) Education for Trans and Gender Diverse Youth in Australia, page 163:

(Internet) The personalized feed of a Tumblr user, consisting of recent posts by blogs they follow.

(Internet) The personalized feed of a user of a website, consisting of recent updates of pages the user has used or followed.


bump

en-noun

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

(Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

kuhmu

phrenological protuberance and associated aptitude

推

a post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile


bump

en-verb

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

bumps (present singular third-person)
bumping (participle present)
bumped (participle past)
bumped (past)
Lighter (canonical)
1917-1919: An Historical Glossary” (canonical)
volume 47 (canonical)
number 1 (canonical)
page 24 (canonical)

onom

imitative

As in [the online forum] carersvoicesnz, certain contributors were more visible, taking the initiative to "bump" the thread to bring it back into view if it went quiet.

2015, Barbara Horrell, Christine Stephens, Mary Breheny, “Online Research with Informal Caregivers: Opportunities and Challenges”, in Qualitative Research in Psychology, volume 12, number 3, →DOI, page 264:

(Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.


bump

imitative

(Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.


paysite

(Internet, slang) A website that charges money for admission, especially a pornographic one.


XHR

(Internet) Initialism of XMLHttpRequest object.


engagement

en-noun

engagement (countable and uncountable, plural engagements)

(Internet, countable) A performance metric representing an instance where a user interacts with a post after an impression.

(uncountable) The quantitative response to a post; attention.


tweet

Onomatopoeic of the sound made by a bird. Compare twitter. The social media senses evolved from earlier Twitter update, twit (noun), twitter (verb).

Alternative form: Tweet

Every few seconds, a tweet appears and vanishes somewhere on the globe.

2007 April 22, Jason Pontin, “Twitter takes instant messaging to an extreme”, in International Herald-Tribune:

For example, as you edit a tweet in Twitter, the number of characters left is updated as you type.

2008, Wendy Chisholm, Matthew May, Universal Design for Web Applications:

A tweet can be received via SMS to your cell phone […]

2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks:

(social media) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.

He was watching the media coverage, talking to his lawyers. And we saw that because of his tweets on Truth Social, or his posts on Truth Social.

2023 August 3, Kristen Holmes, The Lead with Jake Tapper, CNN:

(social media, by extension) An entry on any microblogging service.


tweet

en-verb

tweet (third-person singular simple present tweets, present participle tweeting, simple past tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twote, past participle tweeted or (Internet, nonstandard) twoten)

tweets (present singular third-person)
tweeting (participle present)
tweeted (past)
twote (Internet nonstandard past)
tweeted (participle past)
twoten (Internet nonstandard participle past)

In Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative societies, one online rebel has rocked the Islamic establishment with tweeted allegations of corruption within the ruling royal family.

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

=Mr Trump tweeted: "Big day planned on national security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!"

2017 January 25, “Donald Trump: 'We will build Mexico border wall'”, in BBC World Service, retrieved 2017-01-25:

First, an apology. Tweet in haste and repent at leisure. When I first heard about the idea, before I had properly examined it, I actually tweeted that this was [a] welcome 'innovation' from a state-controlled train operator.

2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 44:

(transitive, intransitive, social media) To post an update to Twitter.

غَرَّدَ

socilal media: to post an update to Twitter

In response to the motion, Trump tweeted on Truth Social

2023 September 17, Lou Kettering, “Federal prosecutors in DC 2020 election interference case request order to prohibit Trump making ‘inflammatory’ and ‘misleading’ statements”, in Jurist:

As Georgetown public policy prof Dan Moynihan tweeted on Bluesky yesterday, the editors of the Times “are not falling for [Rufo’s] game, they are co-producing it.”

2024 April 17, Doktor Zoom, “New York Times Joins Chris Rufo In Mean Girls Finger-Snapping At NPR CEO”, in Wonkette:

(transitive, intransitive, social media, by extension) To post an update to any microblogging site.


cc

cc (third-person singular simple present cc's, present participle cc'ing, simple past and past participle cc'ed or cc'd or cc:d)

cc's (present singular third-person)
cc'ing (participle present)
cc'ed (participle past)
cc'ed (past)
cc'd (participle past)
cc'd (past)
cc:d (participle past)
cc:d (past)

Please cc me so I stay on top of any situations that might come up & I can be sure we get you answers right away.

2012, Doug Fine, quoting Colleen Brand, Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, Penguin, →ISBN:

For messages I'm cc'd on by people within my company, with the exception of a handful of senior execs (including my direct supervisor), whose cc's continue to go to my primary inbox.

2014, Alexandra Samuel, Work Smarter, Rule Your Email, Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN:

carbon copy
carbon copy#English:_send_email

(Internet, transitive) Initialism of carbon copy (“to add an additional recipient to the CC line of an e-mail message”).


chatter

During the chat sessions, two outreach team members would engage in a conversation about the topic chosen for that event in the main chat room and entice other chatters to join in.

2013, Michael K. Sullivan, Sexual Minorities, page 148:


AYBABTU

all your base are belong to us
all your base are belong to us#English

(Internet slang) Initialism of all your base are belong to us.


scroll

scroll (third-person singular simple present scrolls, present participle scrolling, simple past and past participle scrolled)

scrolls (present singular third-person)
scrolling (participle present)
scrolled (participle past)
scrolled (past)

→ Danish: scrolle

→ Icelandic: skrolla

→ German: scrollen

From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.

Hey, stop scrolling!

It's cool but i know why I prefer newsgroups : I just got banned for scrolling or summat : i was typing one word in each message so pppl^([sic]) could read it cos it was going so fast - geez.

1998, rOOth, “Brain's chat”, in alt.music.queen (Usenet):

If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!

2003, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of High-tech Crime and Crime-fighting, AOL Riot on June 1, 1998, page 21:

(Internet, intransitive, dated) To flood a chat system with numerous lines of text, causing legitimate messages to scroll out of view before they can be read.


TCP/IP

w:Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

(Internet, telecommunications) Initialism of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a standard for computer network communication, used in particular for the Internet.


DA

en-noun

DA (countable and uncountable, plural DAs or DA's)

(Internet) Initialism of domain administration.


thread necromancy

Comes from the word thread, the flow of a discussion in a forum, and the word necromancy, the raising of the dead.

(Internet, slang) On an Internet forum, the act of posting in a thread that is already considered dead or out of discussion.


copyvio

copyvio (countable and uncountable, plural copyvios)

My suggestion is to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations to see our mechanism that deals with copyvios.

2005 January 3, ta bu shi da yu, “Re: Wikipedia - Check pages for copied articles”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet):

These are the edits made to this article before the deletion of versions that included copyvio.

2005 June 24, “TheoClarke” (username), in “Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history”, Wikipedia, quoted in Deleting: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, ICON Group International (2008), page 44

Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this.

2007 February 1, cpghost, “Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server”, in list.freebsd.questions (Usenet):

2009 June 19, Jon Dowland <[email removed]>, “new freedoom packages for stable and oldstable to fix copyvio”, in linux.debian.devel.release (Usenet):

copyright infringement
copyright infringement

(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.


subdomain

A domain is a subdomain of another domain if it is contained within that domain. This relationship can be tested by seeing if the subdomain's name ends with the containing domain's name. For example, A.B.C.D is a subdomain of B.C.D, C.D, D, and " ".

1987 November, P. Mockapetris, Domain Concepts and Facilities, RFC1034, also known as STD0013

BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Copyright © 2004, 2005 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC"), Copyright © 2000-2003 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. Every subdomain is a domain and every domain except the root is also a subdomain.

(computing, Internet) A domain name that has been prefaced with additional parts separated with periods.

sous-domaine

domain name prefaced with additional parts separated by a period

In en.wiktionary.org, en is a subdomain.

(computing, Internet) An additional part prefaced to a domain name.


domain name

Another potentially problematic category of domain name disputes involves domain names that correspond to more miscellaneous subjects, such as culturally and geographically significant words and phrases.

2010, Jacqueline D. Lipton, Internet Domain Names, Trademarks and Free Speech, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 235:

(Internet) A unique, case-insensitive name that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.


top-level domain

top-level domain (plural top-level domains)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-top-level domain.wav

generic top-level domain
generic top-level domain

(computing, Internet) The last component of a domain name, such as .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org, .mil, .mobi or any of the newer generic top-level domains, or any of the ccTLDs.


com

(Internet) Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).


ob-

ObGoth: Uh, well, it's like this you see, <searches in random file o' obgoth things> anyone out there got the new CoX album on Tess? If so which album is it *most* like?

1998, Haydn Black, “lesbian goths”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):

Aren't Newcastle's chairman Sunderland supporters? (From the way they acted?) Erm...obspeccy? Tynesoft, eh? What happened to them?

1998, Peter Thomas, “FAQ: more info request”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

ObLinux: SAP were giving away a free development environment for use with RedHat v6.1 recently, a distinctly non-free complete system has been available for a while. This offers another example of a commercial application where the vendors now have sufficient confidence in Linux to release a port (even if it is distribution-specific).

2000, Dan Glover, “Introduction to Linux article for commentary”, in alt.linux (Usenet):

(Internet, informal, humorous) Obligatory; prepended to the name of a topic being mentioned to avoid accusations of being off-topic.


YGM

(Internet) Initialism of you've got mail: used to inform someone that an e-mail message has been sent to them.


CGI

Common Gateway Interface
Common Gateway Interface#English

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Common Gateway Interface.


brushing

brushing (countable and uncountable, plural brushings)

(uncountable, Internet) A fraudulent technique in which an online seller sends out fake orders (such as empty boxes) and adds positive reviews about those orders, ostensibly from the recipient.


e-mail address

e-mail address (plural e-mail addresses)

A unique identifier of the form user name@domain name specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.

ímélcím

now officially endorsed but still less common

ທີ່ຢູ່ອີແມລ

thī yū ʼī mǣn


meta

en-adj

meta (comparative more meta, superlative most meta)

more meta (comparative)
most meta (superlative)

From meta-, back-formed from metaphysics.

Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.

Suppose you have a homework task where you need to edit a wiki page and upload a screenshot of this entry underneath the word meta as an example of what meta is.

[…] in finessing obligations you fail a "meta" kind of obligation.

2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity, →ISBN, page 31:

Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta, very '97. I can't use it."

2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do?, →ISBN, page 186:

McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks. In one scene, when they were all hanging on to the balloon ropes, Mr Bean-like, to stop Jason Watkins flying away, it sort of was.

2021 March 1, Carol Midgley, “McDonald & Dodds review – cheerful escapism and filth-free distraction”, in The Times:

(informal) Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.


meta

(historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.


meta

en-noun

meta (countable and uncountable, plural metas)

Clipping of metagame. Folk etymology also suggests an initialism of most efficient tactic available.

I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.

The phrase, “tank meta”, is one that carries a lot of weight when it comes to MOBAs. These metas are generally characterized by tanky, unkillable behemoths dominating the meta and leaving any character that isn’t focused around raw DPS in the dust.

2022 November 17, Carver Fisher, “League of Legends preseason 13 has made tanks unkillable”, in Dexerto:


meta

Clipping of metanalysis or metacommentary.

Many metas on Tumblr incorporate GIFs of scenes they are referencing as well as screencaps.

2014, Jay Schnorrer, "Adding to Narration and The Johnlock Conspiracy – The Meaning of Digital Media for BBC's Sherlock", paper submitted to Freie Universität Berlin (link)

Fans create their own stories and media representation through fan fiction. They challenge the feminism in the [Sarah J. Maas] books through discussions and metas.

2018, Sarah Leiser, "Throne of Fans: Examining the Roles of Feminism, Platform and Community in an Online Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Denver, page 84

It wasn’t until I dug into post-season-3 Sherlock meta in January of 2014 that I started to encounter "the Discourse."

2020, Elizabeth Minkel, quoted in "Under the Radar: A Conversation about Tumblr in the Public Sphere", in A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (eds. Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch), page 64

(fandom slang) Metanalysis or metacommentary focused on media, fandom, or related topics, typically presented as an essay or dialogue.


egosurfing

From ego + surfing, coined by Sean Carton in 1995.

One offshoot of this new narcissism is “egosurfing,” in which one searches the Internet for information about oneself. A company—egoSurf—was created especially to do this.

2009, John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:

(Internet) The act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.

mise-scimeáil

using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the web


SMTP

The objective of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is to transfer mail reliably and efficiently.

1981 November, Jonathan B. Postel, “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 788:

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
w:Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (a de-facto standard for email transmission.)


yahoo

en-verb

yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)

yahoos (present singular third-person)
yahooing (participle present)
yahooed (participle past)
yahooed (past)

Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!

I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.

2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones, →ISBN, page 46:

In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).

2017, Rajendra Pillai, Unearthed: Discover Life as God's Masterpiece, New Hope Publishers, →ISBN:

(Internet, informal, transitive, intransitive) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.


SSL

Secure Sockets Layer
w:Secure Sockets Layer

(Internet) Initialism of Secure Sockets Layer (cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet).


layout

→ German: Layout

→ Dutch: lay-out

→ Polish: layout

→ Portuguese: layout

→ Russian: лейаут (lejaut)

→ Swedish: layout

(Internet) The customizable features of a user's profile (such as profile picture, screen name, and bio) collectively.


cancelbot

(Internet) A bot that sends messages to Usenet newsgroups to remove certain postings, especially spam.


spambot

(more generally) A bot that sends any type of spam content on the Internet.


warwalking

From war + walking, modelled on war-dialing.

(Internet, computing) The act of walking around with a wireless device to find an access point for a wireless network.


SCO

sharable content object
sharable content object#English

(Internet) Abbreviation of sharable content object. (a standardized learning object that can communicate to learning management and content management systems)


text link

(Internet) An element of text on a web page, used to access other web pages.


bleg

Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)

4 July 2007, Jack Melton, “Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem”, in Sunderland Echo:

#*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.

7 November 2007, “Sea Angling latest”, in Sunderland Echo:

The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.

29 May 2008, “Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up”, in Sunderland Echo:

Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.

10 December 2010, “Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open”, in Sunderland Echo:

Trisopterus luscus
Trisopterus luscus#Translingual

(Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).