asher

Initialism of alt.suicide.holiday + -er.

ANYONE who first stumbles upon ash is bound to want to SAVE these desperately unhappy people. If you think Daisy was the first or last person trying to knock sense into the ashers, you are wrong. And from my observations, Anyone with only good intentions, (say trying to give ashers a spiritual outlook) is visciously ^([sic]) attacked by ash.

1998, im__naked, “everybody`s got 2 cents RIGHT?”, in alt.support.grief (Usenet):

I can't remember how this thread started to be honest, but if someone said that suicide won't affect others, I agree with you about that. In fact I think all ASHers would agree that a suicide is not an isolated event that won't make ripples in the life of others.

1998, Marc, “MESSAGE TO JENNY M.”, in alt.angst (Usenet):

Ashers offer such good arguments. Like: "You're dumb."

2001, John T. Kennedy, “Libertarians, Suicide, & the "Social Contract [TROLL]”, in alt.test (Usenet):

Some ashers dislike and ridicule online forums like asd, that provide a more traditional forms ^([sic]) of support, as useless and requiring insincere displays of affection. This view is quite subjective. The support on asd suits those who read it, and not ashers.

2007, slunky, “Is it true that you can't commit suicide with pills?”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):

A member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the topics of suicide and depression.


Hypertext Markup Language

A set of tags and rules used in developing hypertext documents to be presented on web browsers, allowing incorporation of text, graphics, sound, video and hyperlinks.


IDN

internationalized domain name
w:internationalized domain name

(Internet) Initialism of internationalized domain name.


PNG

/ˌpiː ɛn ˈd͡ʒiː/

Portable Network Graphics
Portable Network Graphics#English

(file format) Initialism of Portable Network Graphics.

(specifically, VTuber fandom slang) A spritesheet, in PNG format, containing all sprites used for a VTuber's avatar.

file format; VTuber fandom slang; VTuber fandom slang


cyberdisinhibition

The Internet undermines the quality of human interaction, allowing destructive emotional impulses freer rein under specific circumstances. The reason is a neural fluke that results in cyberdisinhibition of brain systems that keep our more unruly urges in check. […¶] Communication via the Internet can mislead the brain’s social systems. The key mechanisms are in the prefrontal cortex. […¶] In order for this regulatory mechanism to operate well, you depend on real-time, ongoing feedback from the other person. The Internet has no means of allowing such real-time feedback (other than with rarely used two-way audio/visual streams). […] This results in disinhibition: impulse unleashed. [¶…T]his disinhibition becomes far more likely when people feel strong negative emotions. What fails to be inihibited are the impulses those emotions generate. [¶] This phenomenon has been recognized since the earliest days of the Internet…as ‘flaming’: the tendency to send abrasive, angry, or otherwise emotionally ‘off’ cybermessages.

2006, John Brockman [ed.], Daniel Goleman [contrib.], “Cyberdisinhibition”, in What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, →ISBN, pages 74–76, →ISBN:

(psychology, Internet) Disinhibition when using interactive online media due to the anonymity or lack of social feedback inherent in the medium.


hatelisting

A *hatelisting*? Good heavens... She looks cute... I don't know why anyone is jealous, she has to be "a human hosepipe" each time she kisses Harry... But then, they'll probably change the story line for the movie which is *so* annoying...

2004, bubblybabs, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Actors Finalized (Spoilers)”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):

(Internet) A website listing the submitted names of people who hate a particular celebrity, film, or other topic.


wiki markup

A lightweight markup language used to format and structure pages in wikis.


spamlike

en-adj

spamlike (comparative more spamlike, superlative most spamlike)

more spamlike (comparative)
most spamlike (superlative)

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Resembling or characteristic of spam (junk electronic mail).


website aggregator

en-noun

website aggregator (plural website aggregators)

(Internet) A website that consolidates information from a multitude of other websites (often by means of newsfeeds), allowing users to view all of the information in one place.


blockworthy

en-adj

blockworthy (comparative more blockworthy, superlative most blockworthy)

more blockworthy (comparative)
most blockworthy (superlative)

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shd

U shd cum2my party

(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of should.


linkback

(Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.


backlink

(Internet) A hyperlink to a webpage from an external website.

zpětný odkaz

computing: a hyperlink to a webpage from an external website.


backlink

en-verb

backlink (third-person singular simple present backlinks, present participle backlinking, simple past and past participle backlinked)

backlinks (present singular third-person)
backlinking (participle present)
backlinked (participle past)
backlinked (past)


refback

(Internet) The use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about web pages or proxy servers bringing traffic to a web page.


splash page

There was a terrible animated logo on the splash page.

(Internet) A simple introductory webpage shown to the visitor before proceeding to the main page.


GMTA

great minds think alike
great minds think alike#English

(Internet, humorous) Initialism of great minds think alike.


name server

(Internet) A program or server that maps human-readable names to computer addresses, especially as part of the Domain Name System.


NRO

Number Resource Organization
w:Number Resource Organization

(Internet) Initialism of Number Resource Organization.


DDoS

(Internet, computer security) Alternative spelling of DDOS


DDoS

DDoS (third-person singular simple present DDoSes, present participle DDoSing, simple past and past participle DDoSed or DDoS'd)

DDoSes (present singular third-person)
DDoSing (participle present)
DDoSed (participle past)
DDoSed (past)
DDoS'd (participle past)
DDoS'd (past)

Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information.[…]”

On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.

2003, Stephen Northcutt, Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems, New Riders, →ISBN, page 9:

The system got DDoSed (knocked out of commission by many distributed denial of service attacks), many lawsuits were threatened, and at one point power was even mysteriously lost to the facility, bringing the list down for days (and causing many network interruptions in the process).

2005, Jonathan A. Zdziarski, “Historical Approaches to Fighting Spam”, in Ending Spam: Bayesian Content Filtering and the Art of Statistical Language Classification, No Starch Press, →ISBN, part I (An Introduction to Spam Filtering), page 29:

In posts on his account, Hunt gave further details on the timeline, including contacting the Internet Archive about the breach on October 6th and moving forward with the disclosure process to today, when the site was defaced and DDoS’d at the same time they were loading the data into HIBP to begin notifying affected users.

2024 September 10, Wes Davis, “The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts”, in The Verge:

(Internet, computer security, transitive) Alternative spelling of DDOS


devoice

devoice (third-person singular simple present devoices, present participle devoicing, simple past and past participle devoiced)

devoices (present singular third-person)
devoicing (participle present)
devoiced (participle past)
devoiced (past)

(transitive, Internet) To remove the voice flag from a user on IRC, preventing them from sending messages to the channel.


feedreader

(computing, Internet) A software program that gathers content from newsfeeds.


emailee

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emailer

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Pakistani police said on Tuesday that they have launched a hunt for an emailer whose threatening message to New Zealand cricketers nearly jeopardised their tour to Pakistan.

18 November 2003, Independent Online - Manhunt for emailer who threatened cricketershttps://web.archive.org/web/20100414115105/http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=4

16 April 2007, Manchester Evening News - Golden rules of e-mailinghttp://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/technology/s/1004/1004551_golden_rules_of_emailing.html
Other lessons on so-called `netiquette' the book dishes out are of a more moral tone - for instance, it says that an emailer should never mention anyone in an email who they would not be happy to show the content to.

I also asked whether there had been any complaints (having been made aware by an emailer that he had put in a formal complaint to the website).

2009 October 1, “Roy Greenslade: BBC's 'soft' interview with ignorant BNP members”, in Guardian:


landing page

A good international landing page should have languages in some type of graphic that all browsers can read, followed by a selection of other languages that the user can shoot to quickly.

1996, Robert F. Breedlove, Web Programming Unleashed, Indianapolis: Sams.net, page 910:

When the user arrives at that landing page the content is not generic (as the home page will be) but specific

2007, Richard Gay with Alan Charlesworth and Rita Esen, Online marketing: a customer-led approach, page 294:

Your most important information on the landing page should be above the fold.

2008, Susan Sweeney, 101 Ways to Promote Your Tourism Business Web Site, page 104:

If they see their user-generated scent of information (keywords) on a website's landing page, they believe the page will help ... Searchers become confident that the landing page is giving them what they need.

2009, Shari Thurow with Nick Musica, When Search Meets Web Usability, page 71:

Is your landing page clearly about that keyword, and is the keyword used repeatedly on the landing page?

2010, Perry S. Marshall with Bryan Todd, Ultimate Guide to Google Ad Words, page 110:

(web design, marketing) A web page at which a user first arrives at a website, now especially one optimized for a marketing campaign or for lead generation.


BHO

browser helper object
w:browser helper object

(Internet) Initialism of browser helper object.


speed dial

en-noun

speed dial (countable and uncountable, plural speed dials)

(Internet) A web browser feature that displays frequently or recently visited websites for quick access.


topsite

Topsites demand that all of the groups affiliated with them pre-release directly to their site.

2005, Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software piracy exposed:

Some topsites are run by specific groups...

2009, Nathan W. Fisk, Understanding Online Piracy: The Truth About Illegal File Sharing:

(Internet, slang) A high-speed FTP server used to store and distribute warez.


Wikinewsie

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From Wikinews + -ie (diminutive suffix).

However, many Wikinews stories rely on traditional news organizations' reports as source material, although the site is designed to point out original reporting by Wikinewsies

2006, Janet Kolodzy, Convergence journalism: writing and reporting across the news media, page 238:

The wiki ethic at the heart of Wikinews invites a particular type of relationship with its volunteer journalists, or 'wikinewsies' as they are sometimes called, that revolves around their continued good will […]

2006, Stuart Allan, Online news: journalism and the Internet, page 136:

Wikinews—part of Wikipedia, the largest community public encyclopedia of information—promises to deliver “the free news source you can write” and enlists an army of Wikinewsies who contribute thousands of news reports.

2008, Michele Weldon, Everyman news: the changing American front page, page 70:

(Wikimedia jargon) A reporter or user at Wikinews.


mh

(jargon, social media) Initialism of mental health.


re-up

en-verb

re-up (third-person singular simple present re-ups, present participle re-upping, simple past and past participle re-upped)

re-ups (present singular third-person)
re-upping (participle present)
re-upped (participle past)
re-upped (past)

(Internet, informal) Clipping of reupload.


re-up

(Internet, informal) Clipping of reupload (“file which has been reuploaded”).


click fraud

Regardless of whether CJ have / haven't been accurate with any accusations of click-fraud - soon it won't matter either way!

2001 June 18, Robert Bast, “Re: Re; Pay per click affiliates”, in alt.www.affiliate (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-13, message-ID <3b2dede7.14622914@news.dingoblue.net.au>:

(Internet) A type of fraud in which a computer program is used to simulate mouse clicks on advertisements, driving revenue to the advertiser, who is paid per click.


meat puppet

(Wikimedia jargon) A user who makes unconstructive edits on behalf of another user.


webform

While this is longer it is both clearer to understand and to implement as a webform where the user will select an instrument.

2008, R Wright, “A Semantic Data Grid for Satellite Mission Quality Analysis”, in The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008:

(Internet) A collection of user interface components on a website designed to solicit information from a user.


glue record

(Internet) A record that provides the IP address of the next nameserver in the Domain Name System.


bookmarkable

Our online catalogue is one long page: can we make individual products bookmarkable?

(Internet) That can be bookmarked (stored as a placeholder to be visited again later).


googleable

en-adj

googleable (comparative more googleable, superlative most googleable)

more googleable (comparative)
most googleable (superlative)

[N]ews being in the title makes it easily googlable without actually knowing any news websites.

2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 189:

(informal) Able to be searched for or found using Google or another similar internet search engine.

დაგუგლვადი

able to be found through a search engine


DDL

(Internet) Initialism of Direct Download Link (an Internet link to a file, for immediate download, instead of via file sharing)


botherder

After securing the computer against antivirus tools, previous hackers, and detection by the user, the botherder might check to see what else might be here.

2007, Larry Chaffin, Craig Schiller, Anton Chuvakin, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis:

Most bots use a central C&C server for communicating with their botherder, and normally they use the standard IRC protocol for that purpose.

2009, John Hoopes, Virtualization for security:

(Internet, computer security) A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.


social network

The trends in recent years have focussed on online social networks, in which the social network is enabled as an internet application. Some examples of such networks are Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace.

2011, Charu C. Aggarwal, Social Network Data Analytics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page xiii:

(Internet) A service allowing users to manage and interact with their network of friends or contacts on the Internet. (Called a social network application in precise usage that reserves social network to its original sense.)


social profile

(Internet) A web page on a social media site that displays an individual user's activity, friends list, etc.


e-card

A computerized greeting card, typically hosted on a website to which the recipient is directed by an email message.


sunrise period

(Internet) The period of time at the launch of a new top-level domain or second-level domain during which trademark owners may register domain names containing their trademarks (to prevent cybersquatting).


lolspeak

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The standards are still being fract^H^H^H^H^Hwritten for the language, but the availability of Suitable Wordings from lolspeak verges on the frightening at times.

2007, David DeLaney, “Re: As Others See Us, in this case the DHS”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

Study the lolcat version of the book of Genesis, accessible as nltk.corpus.genesis.words('lolcat.txt'), and the rules for converting text into lolspeak at http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=How_to_speak_lolcat. Define regular expressions to convert English words into corresponding lolspeak words.

2009, Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper, chapter 3, in Natural Language Processing with Python, →ISBN, page 127:

Now, in this first ever feline gospel, they retell 50 popular Bible stories in LOLspeak.

2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, →ISBN:

Of course, for every feature of LOLspeak we discuss, it is likely that you will find numerous counter examples, as such is the nature of language play. LOLspeak is nothing if not creative.

2011, Lauren Gawne, Jill Vaughan, “I can haz language play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak”, in M. Ponsonnet, L. Dao, M. Bowler, editors, Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, neologism, dated) The speech of lolcats, consisting of spelling variations of English, imitating the speech of children and some regional accents.


talkboard

(Internet) A chatroom or bulletin board.


jumpstation

From jump + station, from the name of an early search engine, JumpStation.

Future Fantasy offers a searchable online book catalog and notifies readers of current events at the store and in the field in general. It also provides a jumpstation of hyperlinks to other stores, publishers, online magazines, original fiction, […]

1997, Gary Gach, Writers.net: Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities:

If you right-click on a website listed on a jumpstation, you will be given various options including 'open in new window'.

(Internet) A web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.


metoo

(Internet) Deliberate misspelling of me too, used to indicate agreement.


sigless

Incidentally, the recent sigless posts were mine, not forgeries. I just had to reinstall Agent and forgot to enable them.

1997, Robert Pfeifer, “Sigless posts”, in alt.fan.elite (Usenet):

Fred, stay sigless until you decide what to do. I'd far rather have someone put their name at the end of their post rather than a broken 'thingy'.

2000, Jim Crowther, “Another Satisfied Customer? & other info.”, in alt.internet.providers.redhotant (Usenet):

(Internet) Without a sig (electronic signature appended to one's messages).


blogish

blogish (comparative more blogish, superlative most blogish)

more blogish (comparative)
most blogish (superlative)

I don't believe in Jesus but I believe in *Jeebus*.. I'm cocreator of a Jeebus group blogish thing and a mailing list/message board.. Jeebus ::dreamy sigh::

2001 August 10, "Verpertilian", “Re: call the roll”, in alt.utensils.spork (Usenet):

I've been trying to launch of print zine for over 18 months now, but it looks like I'll be splitting the projec tup^([sic]) into a ~shudder~ blogish sort of socion political though e-zine and possibly and smaller (by a large scale) retroscifish,early^([sic]) punk/metal, industrial style zine that's part online (downloadable PDF) as well as a^([sic]) ink and paper (with VERY limited print run).

2004 December 5, "AlphaTrionTJW", “Re:Virtual Zine Fest”, in alt.zines (Usenet):

Flikr seems tb more blogish and SmugMug seems tb more professional.

2006 December 31, PeteCresswell, “Best Photo Management Site?”, in rec.photo.digital (Usenet):

Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog


domaining

(Internet) The buying and selling of domain names.


WOFF

Web Open Font Format
w:Web Open Font Format

(Internet) Initialism of Web Open Font Format.


drive-by download

en-noun

drive-by download (plural drive-by downloads)

(computer security, Internet) A download triggered by scripts etc. on a website, without prompting the user, usually for malicious purposes.


e-crime

e-crime (countable and uncountable, plural e-crimes)

When asked what e-crimes were committed against their organizations in 2004, respondents cited virus or other malicious code as most prevalent (82%)...

2007, Jay D. White, Managing information in the public sector:

The National Hi Tech Computer Crime Unit was established as a specialist e-crime unit and was folded into the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in 2006.

2009, Lord Carter, Digital Britain: final report:


cyberflaneur

The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities. Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information...

1997, Nan Ellin, Architecture of fear, page 292:

What about the widely heralded hope that cyberspace will be the new street, the piazza in our sprawling cities of connected isolation; that cyberflaneurs will promenade around the Net like Baudelaire taking a stroll around Paris?

1997, Nathan Gardels, The changing global order: world leaders reflect, page 174:

The implied cyberflaneur is the male adult, because kids have their own link, as do women (and this half of the human race is construed as being interested foremost in family and beauty).

2001, Richard Maxwell, Culture works: the political economy of culture, page 214:

(Internet) A person who idly surfs the Internet.


Wiktionary

→ Esperanto: Vikivortaro (calque)

→ Finnish: Wikisanakirja (calque)

desc

→ Greek: Βικιλεξικό (Vikilexikó) (calque)

וִיקִימִלּוֹן

→ Hebrew: וִיקִימִלּוֹן (vikimilón) (calque)

→ Irish: Vicífhoclóir (calque)

/ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛə.ɹi/

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

etymon

The site was brought online in English on December 12, 2002; on March 29, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in over 200 languages now exist, and more than 100 have more than 100 definitions.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, “Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects”, in How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, San Francisco, Calif.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 430:

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

Wikiwoordeboek

the collaborative project; a particular version of this project written in a certain language

Wikizziunariu m (italianized spelling adopted for the relative project)


CTCP

client-to-client protocol
w:Client-to-client protocol

(Internet) Initialism of client-to-client protocol.


white knight

(figurative, derogatory) Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.

(informal, derogatory, Internet) A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.


paste bomb

(Internet) Any snippet of irrelevant text or data which is pasted into an online conversation to disrupt it.


webstream

Dog lovers will be able to watch Crufts despite the BBC's decision to drop the show, thanks to a live webstream announced yesterday.

2009 February 28, “UK news in brief”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) A streaming media delivery method which uses the Internet to deliver audio and video playback to the end user.


webstream

en-verb

webstream (third-person singular simple present webstreams, present participle webstreaming, simple past and past participle webstreamed)

webstreams (present singular third-person)
webstreaming (participle present)
webstreamed (participle past)
webstreamed (past)

(Internet) To send live media over the Internet in order to deliver audio and video playback to the end user.


gewd

(Internet, slang) Alternative spelling of good, by analogy with kewl.


IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force
w:Internet Engineering Task Force

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Engineering Task Force.


unblogged

Although 99 percent of my life is unblogged, these people think that they know me.

2006, Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs, Uses of blogs, page 133:

Company CEOs are outed for participating on message boards with pseudonyms, and it sometimes seems that no bad deed goes unblogged.

2008, Rohit Bhargava, Personality Not Included, page 20:


bloggable

en-adj

bloggable (comparative more bloggable, superlative most bloggable)

more bloggable (comparative)
most bloggable (superlative)

If you aren't sure whether something is bloggable, ask whether you can blog about it or run it by your boss first.

2008, Susannah Gardner, Shane Birley, Blogging For Dummies, page 64:

You can't always be at your computer to blog — sometimes you're out there living life, and bloggable stuff happens!

2010, Melanie Nelson, Shannon Lowe, TypePad For Dummies, page 306:

Even from the start, the greatest compliment that Carles could pay to a song would be to call it “highly bloggable.”

2012 January 19, Rob Trump, “Watching Hipster Runoff Eat its Own Tail”, in New York:


marketspace

From market + space, modelled on marketplace.

(Internet, marketing) A virtual marketplace on the Internet.


nmu

A: hey

B: 'sup?

A: nmu

(Internet) Initialism of not(or nothing) much, you?


hbu

what's up? — i'm about to go to bed, hbu?

(Internet) Initialism of how 'bout you?.


fieldset

From field + set, the name of an HTML element.

Paragraphs, lists, and fieldsets are all sorted out with CSS.

2006, Simon Collison, Beginning CSS web development: from novice to professional, page 308:

Use fieldsets to define multiple fields into logical groups within the form.

2009, Sue Jenkins, Richard Wagner, Dreamweaver CS4 All-in-One For Dummies:

(Internet) A group of related user interface controls that make up one portion of a form.


WSGI

(Internet) Initialism of Web Server Gateway Interface.


bahaha

(chiefly Internet) Representation of laughter.


SNS

The critical mass comprises the pioneers of an SNS who pay the start-up costs and set up a circle of acquaintances for newcomers; thereafter new subscribers to a mature SNS can join one after another rather than as a group (Heijden, 2004).

2015, Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold, Pietro Cipresso, editors, The Psychology of Social Networking, volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 204:

social networking
social networking#English

(Internet) Initialism of social networking site.


furni

(slang, Internet) Clipping of furniture, popularised by the social networking website Habbo.

An item on Habbo used to decorate or customize a room.


redditor

This week’s find: a subreddit devoted to all the wonderfully deranged things people have done while under the influence of Ambien sleeping pills, or while experiencing a visit from the Ambien walrus, as redditors are known to call it.

2017 February 22, Madison Malone Kircher, “‘Things You Did on Ambien’ Is Peak Reddit”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-20:

Alternative letter-case form of Redditor


gopherspace

How do you figure out where in gopherspace a particular kind of resource might be hiding?

1995, David F. W. Robison, Jonathan Kochmer, The Internet passport: NorthWestNet's guide to our world online, page 301:

This chapter explains how to set up shop and do business in Gopherspace.

1995, David Angell, Brent D. Heslop, The Internet business companion: growing your business in the electronic age, page 123:

Gopherspace is like a huge electronic library that needs a workable indexing and catalogue system.

1998, Jimin He, Internet resources for engineers, page 41:

(Internet) The world of information available via the Gopher protocol.


paywalled

[…] suggesting that the paywalled online news models currently pursued by the Australian News Ltd and its international parent NewsCorp were unworkable and based on outdated ideas […]

2012, Eugenia Siapera, Andreas Veglis, The Handbook of Global Online Journalism, page 415:

(Internet) Having a paywall; requiring payment for access.


chatbox

As you may know, in the third weekend of October, we will organise a JOTI (Jamboree On The Internet) weekend, instead of the JOTA. During that weekend we plan to open several chatboxes on IRC. On these boxes Scouts from all over the world can chat with each other.

1997, vdveen, “JOTI 1997 Chatboxes IMPORTANT INFORMATION”, in de.soc.jugendarbeit (Usenet):

How do you handle students who use the Internet for chatboxes and email?

1997, Billie Walker, “Chatboxes and email”, in bit.listserv.libref-l (Usenet):

As the video streams, there's a chatbox by the side of it. All viewers are welcome to leave comments in the chatbox or simply watch the chat that is developing.

2016, Zoe Griffin, Get Rich Blogging, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN:


metacrawler

[…] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases.

(Internet) An application that searches the Web using existing search engines.


antispammer

(Internet) An activist who fights spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail).


NTG

(Internet) Initialism of not this group (i.e. newsgroup).


retromoderate

en-verb

retromoderate (third-person singular simple present retromoderates, present participle retromoderating, simple past and past participle retromoderated)

retromoderates (present singular third-person)
retromoderating (participle present)
retromoderated (participle past)
retromoderated (past)

(transitive, Internet) To moderate (a newsgroup) by initially allowing all posts through and later issuing cancellations of those deemed unacceptable.


retromod

retromod (third-person singular simple present retromods, present participle retromodding, simple past and past participle retromodded)

retromods (present singular third-person)
retromodding (participle present)
retromodded (participle past)
retromodded (past)

(Internet, transitive, informal) To retromoderate.


supermoderator

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In becoming TSR moderators (of varying hierarchical status such as supermoderators, global moderators and minimods, further also forum assistants), users are supposed to set a good example for appropriate online behavior as a by-product of their ongoing conversations.

2013, Jenny Arendholz, (In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations, page 46:

(Internet) A moderator who has permission to moderate every forum on a web site.


e-banking

(banking) Banking carried out electronically, as for example over the Internet.


preroll

en-noun

preroll (countable and uncountable, plural prerolls)

Are ads that play before video clips, known as prerolls, more effective when paired with banner ads?

2009 July 27, Brooks Barnes, “Lab Watches Web Surfers to See Which Ads Work”, in New York Times:

(Internet, advertising, countable) An advertisement that plays before the main content.


newsgrouper

(Internet, slang) A user of Internet newsgroups.


newgroup

en-verb

newgroup (third-person singular simple present newgroups, present participle newgrouping, simple past and past participle newgrouped)

newgroups (present singular third-person)
newgrouping (participle present)
newgrouped (participle past)
newgrouped (past)

If the group passes, it will be newgrouped after five days. If the group fails, it can't be voted on again for six months.

1998, Carla G. Surratt, Netlife: Internet citizens and their communities, page 75:

2000, Harlock, “I'm newgrouping alt.binaries.tv.millennium today!”, in alt.config (Usenet):

(Internet, transitive) To create (a newsgroup on Usenet) by sending a special control message.


mudder

For mudders like myself (an AI researcher), ’bots and their associated likely behavior patterns are old hat.

1993, Leonard N. Foner, “What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study”, in MIT Media Lab, archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not find twink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.

1997, Gov't Cheeze, “[AD/REQUEST] Builders and Players (twinks need not apply)”, in rec.games.mud.admin (Usenet):

(Internet) A participant in a multi-user dungeon.


lifestream

These tools include blogs, message boards, podcasts, micro blogs, lifestreams, bookmarks, networks, communities, wikis, and vlogs.

2010, John P. Girard, JoAnn L. Girard, Social Knowledge, page 35:

(Internet) A time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of one's electronic life.


lazyweb

From lazy + Web, coined by British designer and co-founder of Dopplr Matt Jones in 2002, and later popularized as a hashtag added to questions on Twitter, peaking around 2008.

coin

Victor proves the first rule of the lazy-web ("if you wait long enough, someone will write/build/design what you were thinking about")[…]

2002 June 11, Matt Jones, “Make me think.”, in blackbeltjones.com, archived from the original on 2002-06-12:

Some might want a little widget for their weblog that does something cool. Talk about it online for a bit—through the magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it.

2003 January 16, Ben Hammersley, “Web-sharing the lazy way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

2008, Ricardo SIGNES, “dear lazyweb: hashref instead of objects”, in perl.moose (Usenet):

2009, Jonno Downes, “lazyweb request for reusable menu code”, in comp.sys.apple2.programmer (Usenet):

If the phrase doesn't exist, you can offer a definition, or it asks the ‘lazyweb’ for one by tweeting it.

2011, Tim Phillips, Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle, Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 175:

The lazyweb hashtag is rarely used anymore—it peaked in 2008 and has been declining with increasing rapidity over time—but people still turn to Twitter when they want to outsource a question.

2011 July 7, Nicholas Jackson, “Infographic: Twitter, Lazyweb Expose the Limits of Google”, in The Atlantic:

For instance, a lazyweb request on Twitter is likely to be successful if the requester has either responded previously to such requests […].

2011, Martin Weller, The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 102–103:

(Internet, informal, humorous) The Internet, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.

given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow


toss up

en-verb

toss up (third-person singular simple present tosses up, present participle tossing up, simple past and past participle tossed up)

tosses up (present singular third-person)
tossing up (participle present)
tossed up (participle past)
tossed up (past)

Restless in quarantine, she began posting videos on Instagram, one of which got picked up by Barstool, the popular sports blog. […] Then she tossed up a few on TikTok, notably one in which she faux-naively referred to Houston Street in New York, which is pronounced How-ston, as Hew-ston.

2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:

(transitive, Internet) To post or upload.


Gaian

Inspired by comic-book and anime fans, “Gaians” play games, […]

2008 July 3, Corilyn Shropshire, “AVATAR SHOPPING / Virtual clotheshorses / A little cash goes a long way to get the latest wardrobe - even though it isn't real”, in Houston Chronicle, page E.1:

Within the offering’s first hour of launch, Gaians acquired over 28,000 Scions, a figure that grew to 600,000 within six months.

2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM, →ISBN, page 9:

Gaians create customizable avatars and virtual homes using Gaia Cash and Gaia Gold and allow users to shop at their Gold Shops, Cash Shops, and marketplaces for trading on the Gaia Exchange (Gaiaonline.com).

2023, Nathalie Rébé, editor, Cyber Laundering: International Policies And Practices, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 131:

(Internet) A member of the anime-themed social networking and forums-based website Gaia Online.


Hotmailer

(Internet, informal, historical) Someone who has a Hotmail email account.


blogtastic

en-adj

blogtastic (comparative more blogtastic, superlative most blogtastic)

more blogtastic (comparative)
most blogtastic (superlative)

(informal) excellent, with regards to blogs or blogging.


Flickrer

Once setup is done, it's just a matter of a couple of mouse clicks to move photos, with comments, to your blog. (Fellow Flickrers who don't want their photos blogged can specify that as well.)

2008, Bud E. Smith, Creating Web Pages For Dummies, page 117:

(Internet) Someone who uses the photo-sharing website Flickr.


Craigslister

(Internet) Someone who uses the Craigslist website.


YouTuber

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

YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.

2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate:


clickjack

en-verb

clickjack (third-person singular simple present clickjacks, present participle clickjacking, simple past and past participle clickjacked)

clickjacks (present singular third-person)
clickjacking (participle present)
clickjacked (participle past)
clickjacked (past)

(Internet) To steal confidential information from a user who is browsing a website via clickjacking.


wikiality

en-noun

wikiality (usually uncountable, plural wikialities)

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Blend of Wikipedia + reality, coined by Stephen Colbert 31 July 2006 on his show, The Colbert Report.

A group of undergraduates and alumni combated the backlash of "wikiality" and put their own spin on the facts about Cornell in an article about the University on the Web site Wikipedia.

2006 September 20, Felicia Daniels, “Wikipedia selects Cornell U. page as 'Featured Article'”, in University Wire:

2007 January 21, Kevin Garcia, “Wikiality is not reality”, in The Brownsville Herald:

Yet, this is the wikiality("truth based on consensus rather than fact") of the world, I'm sorry, of America, today

2007 January 5, Matt Martin, “Are we best we can be?”, in The Lantern:

Most important, here, Colbert calls attention to the Bush administration's cooption of wikiality: its continuous campaign to manipulate public perception.

2009, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era, NYU Press, →ISBN:

(derogatory) The supposed reality described by Wikipedia articles, whose content is established by majority consensus.


dictionary attacker

dictionary attacker (plural dictionary attackers)

(Internet) A person or bot that carries out a dictionary attack


OSC

(Internet) Initialism of object show community.


backseater

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(Internet, video games) Synonym of back-seat gamer


Ins

Ins story


e-mailable

en-adj

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

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

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Minimizing a photo or graphic's physical size to no larger than 600 pixels in width will make them e-mailable. Most photos right off your digital camera are 1000s of pixels in width which makes for a very, very, very large file size.

2007, Judith Kallos, E-mail Etiquette Made Easy, page 13:

(Internet) Capable of, or suitable for, being e-mailed.


brusher

(Internet) An online seller who uses the fraudulent technique of brushing.


Rule 34

From the caption of a 2003 webcomic, later included in a list of “Rules of the Internet” originally circulated on 4chan by members of Anonymous, in which the rule was formulated as "if it exists, there is porn of it, no exceptions".

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Rule 34.

(Internet slang, fandom slang, informal) The proposition that there are pornographic depictions of anything and everything, especially as fan art on the Internet.


traffic shaping

(Internet) The technique of slowing down Internet packet flow rate by narrowing the bandwidth to avoid a possible system overload.


discussion room

en-noun

discussion room (plural discussion rooms)


pseudoelement

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(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) An object in code that behaves like an HTML element but is not a true element.


pseudoclass

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(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) A construct in code that behaves like a class but is not a true class.


blue link

In most wikis, a link to an existing page appears in blue text.

(Internet) A hyperlink displayed in blue, traditionally indicating that the user has not yet followed the link.

Beyond the satisfaction it provides linguistically and in terms of pure meanness, what makes “nepotism baby” so popular is that it also functions as a tool, a simple way for our brains to deconstruct the bigger idea of upward mobility in inequality. Every human is someone’s child, but not everyone’s parents are a blue link on Wikipedia.

2022 August 31, Alex Abad-Santos, “They hate to see a nepotism baby winning”, in Vox:

(Internet, wiki jargon) A blue hyperlink that directs to an existing page of a wiki.


cable internet

Internet connectivity received through coaxial cables, usually via the same medium as cable television.

kabelinternet

internet connectivity received through coaxial cables


TINLC

(Internet, humorous) Initialism of There is no lumber cartel.


image macro

What were the various image macros? ... [img-foo]: See Image Macro. A list of official [img-foo]s are above, but any common image that's used often can replace foo. [img-motorcycle.jpg] for instance.

2001 August 25, anotherone, “Something Awful forums FAQ By anotherone”, in http://anotherone0.tripod.com/, archived from the original on 2001-08-25:

That would make such a good image macro, could i use it sometime?

2001 September 25, Guest, “Meddling kids!”, in 3D Realms Forums, archived from the original on 2007-02-07:

2001 October 22, <deleted user>, “Ill advised image macros never intended for use”, in Something Awful Forums, retrieved 2013-09-11:

Now, the term Image Macro refers to any frequently used image, usually with text proclaiming "YOU SUCK AT THE INTERNET!" or something.

2002 February 22, anotherone, “Something Awful forums FAQ By anotherone”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2001-08-25:

(Internet) An image with superimposed text, often humorous.


thread mode

The phenomenon of a wiki being used for discussions.


wiki magic

The phenomenon of a wiki taking shape by being constructively edited by many people.


I see what you did there

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Book a tabla now (te-he) www.electromancer.com/artists/squishmusic [Yes, very good, I see what you did there - Ed].

Leonard Hofstadter: Of course, we're in different departments. He's an engineer and I'm an experimental physicist. You know, one of guys who examines the building blocks of creation and says: "Hello, maker of the universe. I see what you did there. Good one."

2010 November 4, Bill Prady, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland, "The Apology Insufficiency", episode 4-7 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:05:03-00:05:19

"Wait. I see what you did there. You turned my comment around on me so that it would be an insult. You are one clever gal, Dr. Rodgers."

2011, Grant R. Jeffrey, Alton L. Gansky, The Scroll, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 103:

Oh, I see what you did there! You made a little "bacon" joke at moi's expense. You got a death wish or something, buster?!

2011 November 19, “Fast chat: Miss Piggy of 'The Muppets'”, in Newsday:

(informal, humorous, also Internet slang) An expression used to point out that another person's joke or cleverness has been recognized or understood, either to acknowledge its cleverness or alternatively to communicate a lack of amusement.


citation needed

From a tag, first created in June 2005, used on the English Wikipedia website to mark statements in articles that require verification.

I pass the Museo del Bargello, a former army barracks and prison, it is now home to masterpieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Vincenzo Gemito and Robert Mapplethorpe [citation needed].

2013, Dan T. Alighieri [pseudonym], “Prologue”, in Dan’s Inferno: A Parody, London: Michael O’Mara Books, →ISBN, page 7:

I have learned recently, where I can't remember, that books made of scrolls of papyrus were cut into pages and enclosed in wooden covers. Books like this were in circulation at the time. For now, just like Wikipedia, we will mark this: "citation needed."

2013, Phil[lip D.] Johnson, “My Favorite Event as Told by Mark”, in Funny Stuff in the Bible: A Field Trip in the Bible Library, Eugene, Or.: Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock, →ISBN, page 91:

You know, every time I hear their stories [of near-death experiences] I just want to say "citation needed", because all the stuff they're saying, the only people who believe it happen to be the ones in their circles.

2013 December 4, Hemant Mehta, “Atheists, there is PROOF of Heaven!”, in YouTube, retrieved 2017-02-06:

Euclid’s solution was simply to take parallel lines for granted and add them in as a fifth postulate. [...] In The Elements, the first four postulates are stated in simple and obvious statements, together amounting to only thirty-four words. The fifth postulate alone requires thirty-five words. This was the ancient Greek equivalent of ‘citation needed’.

2014, Matt Parker, “Shapes: Now in 3D”, in Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician’s Journey through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 92:

Do you struggle to keep up with all the great podcasts and video content The Spinoff puts out every week? Luckily, we have a solution – introducing Rec Room, The Spinoff’s latest and some are saying greatest [citation needed] newsletter.

2020 August 17, “Subscribe to Rec Room, Our Newsletter for Video, Podcasts and Other Favourite Stuff”, in The Spinoff, archived from the original on 2020-09-29:

> Democrats want a centralized autocratic government / [citation needed] Meanwhile, Trump's autocratic tendencies have become legendary after his one and only term. / > Democrats want a dictatorial leader (as evidenced by their refusal to hold their leader(s) to any Constitutional or legal standards) / [citation needed] Meanwhile, Banana Republicans just spent four years displaying clear anti-democratic tendencies and support for a rogue executive who regularly flouted laws, norms, and Congressional oversight.

2020 November 7, Nadegda, “How to defeat a coup attempt”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

[...] [Nick] Kroll cited The Bible (citation needed) as dictating, "Thou shalt have a Goldberg [i.e., Evan Goldberg] that one grows up with, and then writes TV and movies with." Don’t question it.

2020 December 1, Dennis Perkins, “Nick Kroll Got Some Helpful Direction from Harry Styles on Popping the Question”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-12-01:

(originally Internet slang, chiefly humorous) Used to designate an assertion or other statement as false, inaccurate, or requiring verification.

verwysing benodig

used to designate an assertion or other statement as false, inaccurate, or requiring verification


friendly URL

(Internet) A URL that has a simple structure and is easy to read and understand.


Poe's law

Formulated in 2005 by a user named “Nathan Poe” on the website christianforums.com, originally in the context of creationism.

If you accept Poe's Law, you hold that religious believers are indistinguishable from their parodies.

2013, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue (And How We Should) […] , Routledge, →ISBN, page 130:

But because the internet has changed in innumerable ways since 2005, expanding and accelerating all the while, Poe's Law applies to more and more internet interactions.

2017 June 5, Emma Grey Ellis, “Can't Take a Joke? That's Just Poe's Law, 2017's Most Important Internet Phenomenon”, in Wired, →ISSN:

It's not just digital media tools that amplify the ambivalence of humor online. The familiar combination of context collapse and Poe's Law is equally impactive.

2018, Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner, The Ambivalent Internet […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 121:

The observation that, on the Internet, without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is impossible to tell the difference between sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.


death clock

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Keene had a death clock running, counting the days before his final breath, and his work plan was set to meet that last deadline, with a typical project management rigor.

2012, Michel Bruneau, The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer:

A computer program or website displaying a countdown to a person's predicted date and time of death.


slippy map

(web design, cartography) An interactive digital map with pan and zoom features.


click through

en-verb

click through (third-person singular simple present clicks through, present participle clicking through, simple past and past participle clicked through)

clicks through (present singular third-person)
clicking through (participle present)
clicked through (participle past)
clicked through (past)

(Internet) To click on a link in order to move to another page.


content farm

Just as content farms are engineered to game search engines, an increasing number of sites are designed to game social networks.

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

(Internet) A website that contains low-quality, search-engine optimized writing, which may be aggregated from elsewhere.

內容農場 /内容农场

website which contains low-quality SEO writing


404 page

From 404 (error message) + page (“webpage”).

The website must be down; I got a 404 page.

(Internet) The result of trying to follow a broken link within a website.


dwell time

en-noun

dwell time (usually uncountable, plural dwell times)

The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.

(Internet, marketing) The amount of time that a user spends on a certain page or site.


Common Gateway Interface

(Internet) A protocol for calling external software via a Web server to deliver dynamic content.


IRR

Internet Routing Registry
w:Internet Routing Registry

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Routing Registry.


mommy blogger

...while my sister and I are both old enough for her not to be a baby-cooing mommy blogger, she still misspells 140-character updates on Twitter.

2011, Teresa Wu, Serena Wu, My Mom Is a Fob: Earnest Advice in Broken English from Your Asian-American Mom:

(informal) A mother who blogs about her children, motherhood, parenting or related topics.


browsewrap

browsewrap (usually uncountable, plural browsewraps)

From browse + wrap, modelled on clickwrap, itself modelled on shrinkwrap.

Relative to clickwrap, browsewrap is easily ignored by consumers, leaving them more vulnerable to exploitation.

2004, Louis S. Freeman, Tax strategies for corporate acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, reorganizations and restructurings:

(law, Internet) A form of clickwrap license where the user must consent to the terms in order to use a website.


placeblog

In the past year, the word Bloglyn has been cropping up a lot, a reflection of the fact that Brooklyn, particularly brownstone Brooklyn, has emerged as possibly the center of the placeblog world.

2007 July 8, Gregory Beyer, “Cracker-Barrel 2.0”, in New York Times:

(Internet, neologism) A blog dealing with the news and daily life of a community, written by its inhabitants.


ISAPI

w:Internet Server Application Programming Interface

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Server Application Programming Interface.


WSIT

w:Web Services Interoperability Technology

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Web Services Interoperability Technology.


WSIA

w:Web Services for Interactive Applications

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Web Services for Interactive Applications.


botmaster

Tracking the botmaster to her true physical location is a complex problem that is described in detail in the next section.

2010, John R. Vacca, Network and System Security, →ISBN, page 207:

[The worm] had spread silently for six days before it began regularly trying to connect with its botmaster, who could have been hiding behind any of the 250 domain names the worm generated afresh each day.

2012 February 19, Mark Bowden, “War of the cyber worm: the most destructive attack on the internet”, in The Guardian:

(Internet, computer security) A malicious hacker who controls a botnet.


preblog

In a preblog world it is unlikely that Jack's story would have spread much further than his family and circle of friends. However, Jack's blog provided other people a window into his life...

2007, Mark Tremayne, Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media:

“A killed story used to be pretty much dead unless it got leaked to another newspaper,” Mr. Roderick said of the preblog era of print-based newspapers.

2007 July 30, Andrew Adam Newman, “New Life on the Web for a Killed Newspaper Column”, in New York Times:


antitracking

(computing, software, Internet) Of a system or application, preventing a website from gathering or collecting personal data or information.


tweetheart

My colleague in the US, Heather Hopkins recently covered the blaze of publicity around Oprah Winfrey starting to tweet and its immediate impact on Twitter’s US share of visits. In Australia the influences seem to be broader than America’s new 'tweetheart’.

2009 April 28, Alan Long, “Oprah may be America's Tweetheart, but she doesn't make the earth move Downunder!”, in Digital Ministry:

When Vanity Fair published a story earlier this year on a group of all-American, all-white "tweethearts," the real Twitterati took the magazine to task for ignoring a growing force on Twitter: African-Americans.

2010 May 6, Ki Mae Heussner, “Is Twitter Disproportionately Popular Among Black Users?”, in ABC News:

Thursday night's "Daily Show" began with another thorough take-down of John McCain's stance on Don't Ask Don't Tell, but afterward Jon Stewart moved on to McCain's 2008 Presidential running mate Sarah Palin, who he dubbed "America's Tweetheart."
Palin has taken to Twitter to vent her frustrations with Obama's handling of the latest WikiLeaks document drop, but Stewart believes her outrage is primarily unfounded.

2010 December 3, Katla McGlynn, “Stewart Mocks Media's Obsession With Sarah Palin's Tweets”, in The Huffington Post:

One of the latest twilebrities is Simmons alumna Julia Roy, '05. She was named "America's Tweetheart" by Vanity Fair, which called her a "26-year-old New York social strategist turned twilebrity."

2011 March 3, Victoria Solomon, “Simmons alum named 'America's Tweetheart'”, in The Simmons Voice:

(Internet slang) A Twitter user who is popular with others.

"I liked the idea of people who don't really know each other except through short messages getting together and meeting for the first time, putting a face to a name, and also telling people how much I enjoy reading their updates," said Tim Lara, Twitter user @timothydanger. "Meeting new tweeps was nice too. I gained a couple of tweethearts since then and enjoy the banter. (My twitter is never serious)."

2009 September 5, C.J. Castillo, “Tweetups: Meeting the people behind the tweets”, in Victoria Advocate:

"Just got the imaging for my new fragrance Radiance and thought I'd share it with all my tweethearts," she wrote.

2010 August 8, “No new Britney music in pipeline”, in Daily Mirror:

Kim, 29, treated herself to the frozen snack following a photo shoot earlier that morning, which she wrote about on her Twitter account:
'Morning tweet hearts! Heading to a fab photo shoot for ShoeDazzle.com!'

2010 August 10, “Louboutins, check! Make-up, check! Kim Kardashian is ready to buy a yoghurt”, in Daily Mail:

There is the local angle - if you are one of the desperate spruikers who interpreted Kim Clijsters' twittering "Happy Australia Day to all my Aussie tweethearts" as an indication her heart beats green and gold, even if her dress was only a half-hearted green.

2011 January 27, Richard Hinds, “No football or meat pies, it's down to foreign stars”, in The Age:

(Internet slang) A Twitter user who is one's personal friend or within one's broader social networking circle.

"I actually met my girlfriend on Twitter," says Verdino, who has been tweeting for the last two years. "We call ourselves tweethearts."

2009 February 4, Luann Lasalle, “Tweeting with tweople: Twitter spawns new vocabulary - but beware of twitterhea”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

When I got to my car and dialed up my friend to tell her about the tweetheart I just met she informed me she just got a tweet from Lindsay Lohan.

2009 March 9, “Learning Just How Tweet It Is”, in The Lowell Sun:

Taylor Lukacin wants to help you find your “tweetheart”. This afternoon (May 7), the 20-year-old, White Rock-born blogger will give a talk at the 2010 Northern Voice conference that she’s calling "Social Media Flirting 101".

2010 May 7, Stephen Hui, “Geek Speak: Taylor Lukacin, UBC student blogger”, in The Georgia Staight:

"They did me a Twitter when I started this book," he said. "I had a load of girls who did the Twitter and I dubbed them my Tweethearts, and my true Tweetheart, my wife, does my Twitter now, because I can't do it."

2010 October 27, Mark Egan, “For Michael Caine's second act, another memoir”, in Reuters:

2011 Kate Jones, "Aussie tweethearts say 'I do'", Herald Sun, 16 April 2011 (used in headline only)

(Internet slang) A Twitter user with whom one is infatuated or involved romantically, especially if they were first met through the service.


facemail

facemail (countable and uncountable, plural facemails)

Zaria was surprised as she opened her e-mail a few days later to find new facemail from none other than Michael Kennedy. [...] I was surprised that you accepted my friend request, but then receiving facemail from you ... Am I dreaming? ...

(Internet) An email message sent via Facebook.


subthread

(Internet) A thread of messages on a forum etc. that is hierarchically beneath another thread or message.


rmgroup

From rm (“Abbreviation of remove”) + group. Internal name of the message, short for remove group.

The capability somewhat exists in the rmgroup control message now; just define MANUALLY in your defs.h file. This should be extended to the other control messages.

1982 June 4, Joe Presley, “control messages to administrators (whuxlb.279)”, in net.news.b (Usenet):

Every Usenet groups, and all its associated problems, will have been wiped off the face of the Earth forever by the might of the rmgroup.

1993, "Leader Kibo", IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: THE FUTURE OF THE NET. (on newsgroups news.admin, news.groups, alt.config, comp.org.eff.talk, alt.religion.kibology, alt.politics.kibo, alt.sex)

A Usenet control message indicating that a newsgroup should be removed.


supersite

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It is a wonder some overcaffeinated hacker hasn't cobbled together the code to scrape all of the above into one gadget shopping supersite.

2007 December 13, Paul Boutin, “A Universe of Gadget Advice”, in New York Times:


supermod

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normie

From norm + -ie, or a clipping of normal + -ie. Compare normalfag.

This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for a normie feeling awkward around a wheelchair.

1980, Barry Corbet, Options: spinal cord injury and the future:

You'll start eating like a normie. In fact, a small amount of food will one day look like a lot.

2006, Anne Katherine, How to make almost any diet work, page 200:

Be jovial but not a comedian. We have a sense of humor that the normies don't have.

2011, Bucky Sinister, Still Standing: Addicts Talk About Living Sober, page 97:

It is a career disaster now to signal your left-behind cluelessness as a basic bitch, normie or a member of the corrupt media mainstream in any way.

2017, Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN, Introduction:

(slang, usually derogatory, sometimes Internet) A normal person; one with commonly held, normative beliefs, neurology, tastes or interests.

(slang, usually derogatory, sometimes Internet) A person who is not a member of an ingroup, such as a fandom or other (online) community; An Outsider


cyberstalk

en-verb

cyberstalk (third-person singular simple present cyberstalks, present participle cyberstalking, simple past and past participle cyberstalked)

cyberstalks (present singular third-person)
cyberstalking (participle present)
cyberstalked (participle past)
cyberstalked (past)

But when it comes to tales from my fellow midlifers, I most often find myself reading about regret and claustrophobia, fantasies surreptitiously indulged, old flames cyberstalked (including the agony of whether to hit “send” on that “Hey, you won’t believe who this is!” e-mail message), children occupying center stage as our ailing parents wait in the wings for our care ... while out of the spotlight, dangling unnoticed in the rigging, is the incredible shrinking spouse.

2008 February 10, Daniel Jones, “A Valley of Misery Between Peaks of Joy”, in New York Times:

(transitive) To stalk (a person) by means of computer networks.


bloggy

en-adj

bloggy (comparative more bloggy, superlative most bloggy)

more bloggy (comparative)
most bloggy (superlative)

You can still be professional, but let your personality seep in. If you're managing the blog, give your blog writer time to develop a bloggy rhythm and writing voice. Either way, gauge the reaction from readers or other bloggers.

2006, Debbie Weil, The corporate blogging book:

It is, dare I say it, too preoccupied with being respectably booky rather than wildly bloggy.

2008 March 23, David Kamp, “Permalinks”, in New York Times:

(informal) Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog.


megaportal

There are potentially dozens of jurisdictions that could claim oversight in such a deal because of the global business interests of the two huge companies and because it could potentially transform the Internet into two megaportals, Google and Microsoft.

2008 March 28, John Markoff, “China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo”, in New York Times:

(Internet) A very large, successful portal web site.


linky

You'll see how to add links to either text or graphics and lots of other linky goodness.

2008, Dori Smith, Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows and Macintosh, page 68:

(informal, Internet) Of or pertaining to hyperlinks.


pics or it didn't happen

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Suggesting the denial of the veracity of a report of the event by demanding pictures thereof as proof.

Pug Nose: “Oh, he will.”
“Pics or it didn't happen.”

2013, Jade C. Jamison, Quickies: Sexy Short Stories and Other Stuff, page 89:

“I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”

2014, Jessa Holbrook, While You're Away, Penguin, →ISBN:

Don’t think, just post it. “Pics or it didn’t happen” – that is the populist mantra of the social networking age. Show us what you did, so that we may believe and validate it.

2015 February 26, Jacob Silverman, “‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ – the mantra of the Instagram era”, in The Guardian:

This normative expectation is perhaps best captured in the popular colloquial phrase: “Pics or it didn't happen.”

2016, Jan E. Stets, Richard T. Serpe, New Directions in Identity Theory and Research, page 147:

“Nah. It can be so fake. People just post things that make them look good. You never get the whole story.” I look at my phone in my hand. Pics or it didn’t happen! Ruby likes to say.

2016, Aimee Friedman, Two Summers, Point, →ISBN, page 195:

(Internet slang, humorous) Used to request a picture of a reported event, especially on an Internet forum.

有圖有真相 /有图有真相

used to request a picture of a reported event


Gmailer

From Gmail + -er. Gmail is short for Google Mail.

2004, Sam Tigger, “Hotmail bounces invites from Gmailers”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser (Usenet):

If you don't personally know a Gmailer who'll invite you onboard, fire up Google itself and search for Gmail invitations, which should generate results with plenty of sites that dispense spare Gmail accounts...

2006, Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, Matthew MacDonald, Google: the missing manual:

If you do that, the photo appears when another Gmailer hovers the cursor over your name in his inbox or Contacts list.

2008, Nancy Conner, Google Apps: the missing manual, page 285:


pageview

Similarly, Trueman, Wong, and Zhang found that the nonfinancial measures of unique visitors and pageviews provide additional explanatory power for stock prices, especially for e-tailers like Amazon.com.

2001, Robert G. Eccles, The ValueReporting revolution: moving beyond the earnings game, page 62:

And you—you clueless, literate shmuck—are but a pawn in this game. So just let go. Just accept the fact that you are reading this column right now simply because we can count you as a number on a spreadsheet. You are a pageview, my friend. You are a "monthly unique visitor." One of millions. Nothing more, nothing less.

2012 November 28, “Please Click On Our Website's Banner Ads”, in The Onion:

(Internet) An individual viewing of a web page by a user, often counted when measuring a web site's popularity.


IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol
w:Internet Message Access Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Message Access Protocol.


reop

en-verb

reop (third-person singular simple present reops, present participle reopping, simple past and past participle reopped)

reops (present singular third-person)
reopping (participle present)
reopped (participle past)
reopped (past)

Don't reop Jack until I find out whether he's likely to cause trouble.

(transitive, Internet) To restore (a previously deopped IRC user) to operator status.


revoice

revoice (third-person singular simple present revoices, present participle revoicing, simple past and past participle revoiced)

revoices (present singular third-person)
revoicing (participle present)
revoiced (participle past)
revoiced (past)

(Internet, transitive) To restore the voice flag to a user on IRC, allowing them to send messages to the channel again.


otakukin

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The definition of entertainingly nutty would be otakukin.

2006, Cypher, “Considering Snuhwolf”, in alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet):

I pointed out that you telling me that Otakukin are insane made as much sense as belief in God. Both are things taken on faith, you see?

2007, Juan Valdez, “Ping Juan Valdez”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):

(dated, Internet, sometimes capitalized) A person who claims or believes that their soul is a reincarnation or parallel incarnation of a fictional character (especially, from anime, manga, or video games).


mood message

He had his mood message set to "At work," so I didn't disturb him.

(Internet) A message set by a user of instant messaging software and displayed as part of their profile.


trollable

en-adj

trollable (comparative more trollable, superlative most trollable)

more trollable (comparative)
most trollable (superlative)

A newsgroup about abortion is far more trollable than one about linguistics.

(Internet) Capable of, or suited to, being trolled (disrupted by provocative postings).


webify

en-verb

webify (third-person singular simple present webifies, present participle webifying, simple past and past participle webified)

webifies (present singular third-person)
webifying (participle present)
webified (participle past)
webified (past)

We need to webify this legacy application and bring it to the 21st century. It needs a Web interface.

The origins of our Webified age were hardly auspicious.

2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(transitive) To convert (content or information) into a format capable of being displayed on the World Wide Web.


oper

Chanops can kick people off a channel; opers can ban people logging in from specific Internet sites from participating in IRC.

2000, Howard Rheingold, The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier, number 28, page 187:


nymshifter

(Internet) One who deceptively posts messages under several different pseudonyms.


nymshift

nymshift (third-person singular simple present nymshifts, present participle nymshifting, simple past and past participle nymshifted)

nymshifts (present singular third-person)
nymshifting (participle present)
nymshifted (participle past)
nymshifted (past)

(Internet, intransitive) To change one's pseudonym so as to appear to be posting messages as an unrelated user.


nym

(Internet) A pseudonym used when posting messages.


iframe

From the name of the HTML element, short for inline frame.

This enabled developers to forego framesets altogether and simply place invisible iframes (through the use of CSS) on a page to enable client-server communication.

2006, Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Professional Ajax, page 4:

Although you can use standard JavaScript and AJAX in sandboxed iframe pages to your heart's content, the Facebook Platform places restrictions over the amount of scripting capabilities you can add to the more tightly integrated FBML pages.

2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:

(Internet) A section of a web page that can act as the container for a second separate page or resource.


File Transfer Protocol

en-noun

File Transfer Protocol (plural File Transfer Protocols)

A standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet.


Kibology

From Kibo + -logy, after prolific Usenet poster James "Kibo" Parry. A newsgroup called alt.religion.kibology was created in late 1991.

(Internet) An Internet-based parody religion led by James "Kibo" Parry and partly satirizing Scientology.


autocancel

A Usenet control message, generated automatically, that cancels a previously posted message.


Kibologist

From Kibology + -ist. Coined by James Parry.

But UNIX will never compete with MTS until it has "$DISPLAY TIMESPELLEDOUT", *PIZZADELIVERY, and the famous sausage transfer protocol ("$FTP LINK=SAUSAGE"--gee, doesn't that look like it was implemented by a Kibologist?)

1992 January 2, James 'Kibo' Parry, “Hello?”, in alt.sex.masturbation (Usenet):

An adherent of the parody religion Kibology.


McQuary limit

After George F. McQuary, a frequent contributor to the newsgroup alt.fan.warlord where flamboyant signatures were criticised.

Only 5 lines, so it just squeezes past the McQuary limit, but what a stylish BUAF for your collections, I only hope Kibo is reading.

1992 October 14, David Philip Langstaff, “Wanted...”, in alt.fan.warlord (Usenet):

(Internet, historical) The rule of netiquette stating that the text of a Usenet signature, or sig, should be less than 80 columns wide and no longer than four lines.


smail

To receive this list by smail send self addressed stamped envelope

1996 May 24, Richard Eymann, “SEEKIG^([sic]) HAPPY MEAL TOY TRADERS WORLDWIDE”, in rec.collecting (Usenet):

1997 November 18, “SteveH1491”, “Trick Int'l smail address?”, in alt.music.cheap-trick (Usenet):

On a similar note just imagine if we could persuade companies that sending junk smail is hugely ineffective. All those people, using all that paper, printers, ink, postmen etc etc.

2000 August 5, “Robin” (username), “Re: Letter from india”, in uk.politics.misc and other newsgroups, Usenet

I would require a copy of the original image either by smail or email (scanned image requirement - 600 dpi min / jpg file) and the basic required size you would like the stamp/stamps to be.

2001 August 28, Tom & Rose-Marie Kerr, “Custom Rubber Stamp Needed”, in rec.crafts.rubberstamps (Usenet):

... so when I get promoted I can promote my connection :-) It has now been ordered, I just have to wait for the connection pack to be sent by smail.

2002 April 26, Old Git, “Shoom!”, in freeserve.chat (Usenet):

If anyone knows a smail order or internet vendor who carries them, please let me know ¶

2002 July 15, “Thor”, “Looking for Maisto On Track Diescast Trains”, in rec.models.railroad (Usenet):

You must give the seller access to your checking account, which is risky, or send funds via smail, which is slow.

2009 May 26, Robert, “anybody ordering online?”, in alt.smokers (Usenet):

(Internet, dated) Conventional postal mail; snail mail.


smail

en-verb

smail (third-person singular simple present smails, present participle smailing, simple past and past participle smailed)

smails (present singular third-person)
smailing (participle present)
smailed (participle past)
smailed (past)

You can retrieve the references and go to lib. to get the articles, order the articles to be smailed to you from NLM, or download them to your fax machine

1993 December 21, Patty Cravener, “medline”, in sci.med.nursing (Usenet):

I sent some key lime seeds to Davida last year by US Mail. IIRC, the cost of smailing few seeds was 4 or 5 bucks. --Dick.

2002 May 27, Dick Harper, “WREVEL: Lutefisk alert”, in misc.writing (Usenet):

He met her on IRC and she started emailing, then smailing, then calling on the phone

2002 November 26, Dan Logcher, “how do I get rid of this pest?”, in alt.food.sushi (Usenet):

I eventually stopped trying this bloated crud, and rang the Department to smail me the docs.[…] I gave up and got a friend to get me the documents in person from that office.

2004 July 30, Al Firan RumaiDin, “Re: ot! - ms office upgrades??”, in uk.business.agriculture (Usenet):

(Internet, dated) To send by postal mail.


Kibological

en-adj

Kibological (comparative more Kibological, superlative most Kibological)

more Kibological (comparative)
most Kibological (superlative)

Tread softly on your beds of algae, Mr. Baleen Whale-Man, (if that is your real name) for if you step on even a single holy Krill, your soul will be sent to the eternal damnation of Kibological heck-like land!!

1989 November 6, Michael E. Lee, “seriously slack”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

2003, Beable van Polasm, “Kibological Konspiracy”, in alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters (Usenet):


TIL

TIL that scientists call the universe's average color "cosmic latte".

Kids played with yo-yos in Ancient Greece? TIL.

(Internet slang, Reddit slang) Initialism of today I learned...


SLD

second-level domain
second-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of second-level domain.


polyfill

Named with reference to the spackling paste Polyfilla.

A common way to group elements for collective use by JavaScript is to assign them the same (CSS) class and then to use getElementsByClassName(). Possibly with a polyfill for the "certain old browser".

2016 April 17, Stefan Weiss, “A few problems with looping thru a set of elements with the same "name" specifier.”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet), message-ID <nf03hk$bll$1@news.albasani.net>:

(web development) A plugin that provides the functionality of newer browsers to older versions.

ポリフィル

plugin that provides functionality of newer browsers


polyfill

en-verb

polyfill (third-person singular simple present polyfills, present participle polyfilling, simple past and past participle polyfilled)

polyfills (present singular third-person)
polyfilling (participle present)
polyfilled (participle past)
polyfilled (past)

See the FAQ. Or polyfill String.prototype.trim() if necessary and just call .trim().

2017 January 17, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, “form sending undefined”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet), message-ID <1645793.CQOukoFCf9@PointedEars.de>:

(web development, transitive, intransitive) To create or apply a polyfill.


blogsite

With Drupal, anyone can create their own blogsites, portals, forums, websites, social networking sites, resource directories, etc.

2008, Andrew Haney, Build Websites with Drupal, page 148:

The discussion boards and blogsites became battle sites for supporters and detractors of Chaudhry.

2009, Stewart Firth, Jon Fraenkel, The 2006 military takeover in Fiji: the coup to end all coups?, page 232:

(Internet) A web site whose primary content is a blog.


bloggerati

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That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.

2009 April 5, Jan Hoffman, “Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version”, in New York Times:


unfollow

unfollow (third-person singular simple present unfollows, present participle unfollowing, simple past and past participle unfollowed)

unfollows (present singular third-person)
unfollowing (participle present)
unfollowed (participle past)
unfollowed (past)

Cantonese: unfol

→ German: entfolgen (calque)

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With Twitter, it’s as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

2009 April 22, Maureen Dowd, “To Tweet or Not to Tweet”, in New York Times:

The calls came from Iranian intelligence as soon as the protests began. Agents threatened the family and friends of a DW editor, telling them to cut off contact with him and to unfollow him on Instagram. The journalist was said to be a "muharebbe" (Engl. warrior against God) – which is punishable by death in Iran.

2022 December 8, “Farsi editorial team: Mixed feelings on 60th anniversary”, in DW News, archived from the original on 2022-12-09, Press:

(transitive, intransitive, social media) To cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity).

取關 /取关

to cease to subscribe to (a feed of another user's activity)


CLS

(Internet, social networking) Initialism of comment, like and share.


RUOK

(Internet, Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of are you OK.


threadjacker

(Internet) One who takes over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.


wikitext

It is also possible to extend the wikitext with explicit semantic information encoded with the use of RDF[…]

2011, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence III, page 106:

(Internet) A lightweight markup language used to format and structure pages in wikis.

This latter format, called wikitext, is written by means of a simplified markup language and its style and syntax vary, depending on the different implementations.

2010, Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems:

(Internet) Content that has been marked up with such a language.


blawg

Blend of blog + law. Coined by American lawyer and podcaster Denise Howell.

coined

Keeping a blawg also can be helpful when you update your resume and compose cover letters[…]

2004, American Bar Association, Student lawyer: Volume 33:

If there is a blawg you would like to see added, please feel free to suggest that we add it to the list.

2006, Carole A. Levitt, Mark E. Rosch, The lawyer's guide to fact finding on the Internet, page 738:

The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(Internet) A weblog dealing with topics related to the law.


blawg

en-verb

blawg (third-person singular simple present blawgs, present participle blawging, simple past and past participle blawged)

blawgs (present singular third-person)
blawging (participle present)
blawged (participle past)
blawged (past)

Finally, do legal professionals owe a duty to society in general when blawging?

2007, Anna P. Hemingway, “The ethical obligations of lawyers, law students and law professors telling stories on web logs”, in The Law Teacher, volume 41, number 3, page 294:

When attorneys began blawging, their discourse was not so clearly public, despite the fact that blawgs are far more accessible to many more people than any advertisement.

2009, Judy M. Cornett, "The Ethics of Blawging: A Genre Analysis", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2009, page 233

For example, I do this regularly in Internet Law through requiring my students to blawg.

2013, David S. Levine, “What Can We Do on Monday to Improve Our Teaching?”, in Chapman Law Review, volume 17, number 1, page 32:

(Internet) To write about legal topics on a blog.


blognoscenti

The blognoscenti were quick to note after the Uniform Project site started making the rounds that earlier projects have played with the one-dress idea.

2009 July 12, Rob Walker, “This Year’s Model”, in New York Times:

(informal, neologism) Intelligent, discerning bloggers.


blogdom

All that had to happen was for the forces of IP blogdom to march to Washington and demand IP reform. Why wasn't it happening? It wasn't happening because the blogosphere is only a small part of the story.

2007, Bruce Abramson, The secret circuit, page 278:

[…]Ms. Wilder-Taylor put up a post on her blog, Babyonbored, that has reverberated throughout mommy blogdom[…]

2009 August 16, Jan Hoffman, “A Heroine of Cocktail Moms Sobers Up”, in New York Times:


minisite

Create, a minisite for Web creativity tools on Disney.com, has Digital Painter at its core, with features that Photoshop users used to dream about: unlimited undo and redo, unlimited layers that can be moved after they’re placed, and no limits to the number of objects that can be stamped on the screen.

2009 September 3, Warren Buckleitner, “A Full Palette of Tools for Little Artists at Disney.com”, in New York Times:


postback

(computing, Internet) The transmission of data back to the same web page by means of HTTP POST.


videoblogger

From video + blogger or videoblog + -er.

(Internet) A contributor to a videoblog.


videoblog

A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.


nom de Web

Friedberg — whose nom de Web is StinkE — is an 18-year-old, hip hop-loving Hiero fan who started his site in August, 1995 as a tribute to his favorite crew.

1996, Vibe, volume 4, numbers 7-10, page 378:

On the same day, Barista of Bloomfield Avenue, the nom de Web of Debbie Galant, who lives in a suburban town in New Jersey and is one of the most esteemed "hyperlocal bloggers" in the country, led with a picture from her recent vacation in the Berkshires.

2006, The New Yorker, volume 82, numbers 20-28, page 48:

We are smitten with Nemo Wolfe. That's the charming nom de Web of Mercantile Library executive director Albert Pyle (our own Dr. Know) when he posts on their delightfully omnivorous blog.

2009 December, Cincinnati Magazine, page 93:

(informal) A pseudonym used when publishing on the World Wide Web.


tweetable

en-adj

tweetable (comparative more tweetable, superlative most tweetable)

more tweetable (comparative)
most tweetable (superlative)

(Internet, neologism) Capable of, or deserving of being tweeted (“sent as a message on the Twitter microblogging service”).


Twitterverse

Ashton Kutcher who has more than 3.4 million followers is not a real influencer except as a celebrity within the Twitterverse[…]

2009, Paul Greenberg, CRM at the Speed of Light, page 328:

At this point I see people outside of the Twitterverse furrow or roll their eyes at how their message is reduced to a cutesy term.

I can continue to build my following on Twitter, but my request for a major favor in the Twitterverse will surely be ignored.

2011, Mike Thompson, The Anywhere Leader:

(Internet, informal) The world of users of the Twitter microblogging service.


bitsquatting

(Internet) A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be the result of a random memory error in a user's computer, e.g. excmple.com or exaeple.com for example.com.


geotarget

en-verb

geotarget (third-person singular simple present geotargets, present participle geotargeting, simple past and past participle geotargeted)

geotargets (present singular third-person)
geotargeting (participle present)
geotargeted (participle past)
geotargeted (past)

(transitive, Internet, marketing) To target (an Internet user) with specific content for a geographic location.


photosharing

(Internet) The sharing of photographic images, especially via social networking sites


heorshe

head

heorshe (third person, singular, plural they)

I heard ghastly rumors about some faculty actually destroying a student's video because heorshe didn't feel it was art. . . even if a rumor it sounds like a pretty terrible environment for expression.

1994 May 4, Mary Flanagan, “Savannah College of Art and Design”, in alt.artcom (Usenet):

Why doesn’t Argonut come out of the closet (where heorshe is having an affair with hisorher Filter Queen) and identify himorherself? It would be more fun to persecute himorher if we actually knew who heorshe is. ;-)

1996 September 16, Jon LeBlanc, “Argonut's special game report. (Argos/Sask)”, in rec.sport.football.canadian (Usenet):

Perhaps heorshe started out by investigating the scientific validity of all those house remedies and more esoteric healing methods which fall into the stereotypical Verbena paradigm.

1998 May 20, CML, “Mages playing out of Paradigm”, in rec.games.frp.storyteller (Usenet):

(nonstandard, uncommon, Internet) Alternative form of he or she: they (singular); used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.


brandjacking

This is one of the more blatant forms of brandjacking, in which a person claims to be an official representative of the company.

2009, Joel Postman, SocialCorp: social media goes corporate, page 121:

(Internet) The imposture of the online identity of another person or company.


hyperweb

(Internet) the software infrastructure for the hypernet, which provides access to data and application storage points in the cloud.


hypernet

(Internet) The Internet, inclusive of smartphones and WiFi networks.


QR code

Short for Quick Response Code, introduced as a trademark.

TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.

2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:

A two-dimensional barcode, typically used to link to a website.

QR-ко́д

phonetically: кью-ар-ко́д, ку-эр-ко́д or кур-ко́д


unbirthing

(Internet, paraphilia) Crawling back into a vagina and reentering the uterus (chiefly practiced in role-playing).


bloggage

Back to the bloggage!

2005, Jonathan N. Calise, From the Mind of a Pez Dispenser, page 97:

Sorry about my lack of bloggage. Since the last treatment I have been dealing with multiple, persistent side effects which lifted as of this afternoon.

2010, Robin Waites, George's Journey, page 82:


podder

Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.

2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195:

'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.

2010, Robertski Brothers, The McAtrix Derided:

Paul says he started out as a Podder. He tried to do development deals with the Inner and Outer Systems, and he only became a renegade when he was betrayed by both.'

2013, Charles Sheffield, Proteus Unbound:

(science fiction) One who was born in or lives in a pod.

Due to the signature white earphones, iPod users are able to recognize other "podders," an activity referred to as pod spotting.

2004, Innovation: The Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America, page 32:

You can still see podders with that vacant, 1,000-yard stare in coffeehouses, checkout lines and on treadmills, but the numbers are dwindling.

2006 July, Peter Buffa, “Hot stuff— for now”, in Orange Coast Magazine, volume 32, number 7, page 192:

Novice podders need to be clear here about the important difference between restoring and updating iPod software.

2010, Steve Levine, The Art Of Downloading Music:


podder

B., a Podder in the Bank, demanded and took a reward for his trouble in receiving the money.

1880, Kedarnath Ghosh, Compendium of Criminal Rulings:

Five of these 100-rupee notes have been traced to a podder or money-changer in the Fort, who deposes that he received them from four soldiers in the Royal Fusiliers.

1915, Government Gazette: The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, page 48:

He mentioned that he had no time to check the scrolls, and that the statement of the tellers and podders was quite false.


podder

It sounds like treacle,' said Abe, with a puzzled look; but I don't see what the podder's got to do with it, anyhow; and the young woman's got no business to be wasting her time waiting for the milk to set.

1898, The Literary World - Volume 57, page 70:

Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.

1930, Mother Cecile in South Africa, 1883-1906: Foundress of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, page 37:

Speaking of toads—after a rainfall in South African country places, the roads would be hopping with great, fat, ugly, croaking toads (known to us kids as 'podders').

2006, F. M. K. Ridgway, Our Wandering Years, page 227:


poast

First sense is ancient; second sense probably first attested in c. early-2010s, but in common usage only as of the late 2010s. The spelling variant seems unexplained and may just be fanciful, or deliberately childish (compare memes like fren and groyper).

etydate

(humorous, Internet) A post on an internet site, especially associated with being "terminally online" or causing mischief.


internetting

/ˈɪntəˌnɛtɪŋ/

/ˌɪntəˈnɛtɪŋ/

/ˈɪntɚˌnɛtɪŋ/

/ˌɪntɚˈnɛtɪŋ/

Plans must be analyzed continuously at all levels by simulation. We refer to the construct that makes this possible as a complete "internetting of nodes" and as a seamless "operation across networks." A node can be an airplane, a general, an Army private, a tank, or a UCAV. A collaborating network may be operated by the US Army or by an allied command. Internetting provides for the nearly direct connection of one of the nodes to any other node.

1995 December 15, “Technologies for Arming the Air Force of the 21st Century”, in New World Vistas: Air and Space Poer for the 21st Century: Summary Volume, [Washington, D.C.?]: USAF Scientific Advisory Board, →OCLC, page 12:

(Internet, networking, also attributively) gerund of internet

(rare) The act of entwining or linking things together so as to form a network; interconnecting, networking.

Goals are postulated for future DOD [Department of Defense] growth in automated command and control capability and guidelines are generated which will aid future planners in specifying individual system characteristics which lend themselves to internetting, both within the individual systems and particularly within the over-all DOD command and control system.

1962 August, “Digital Computers”, in Rulon L. Thayne, Elizabethe H. Hall, Herman Miles, compilers, Computers and Data Processing Systems, Arlington, Va.: Hq. Armed Services Technical Information Agency, →OCLC, page 67, column 1:

Last year we had planned to reduce the number of these radars to 151 by end fiscal year 1967. As you may recall, this reduction was predicated on the internetting of our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency.

1967 January 26, Robert S[trange] McNamara (witness), “Statements of Hon. Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, and Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff”, in Military Procurement Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1968: Hearings before the Committee on Armed Services and Subcommittee on Department of Defense of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session on S. 666 […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 243:

The General Accounting Office (GAO) reported in 1975[…], that the system's management should address the need for improving (1) computer security and (2) the effectiveness and efficiency of internetting between computers in its automatic data processing (ADP) operations.

1977 March 3, John L[ittle] McClellan, Chairman, Subcommittee on Department of Defense, “Justification: Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard”, in Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1978: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session on H.R. 7933: An Act Making Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1978, and for Other Purposes […] Part 3—Operation and Maintenance […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 657:

Although the internetting of academe makes it more likely for an exchange of information with our colleagues around the globe, scholars who study communication may be challenged to identify colleagues with similar interests.

1999, Steven A. Beebe, “International Communication Education”, in William G. Christ, editor, Leadership in Times of Change: A Handbook for Communication and Media Administrators, Annandale, Va.: National Communication Association; Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 63:

The act of connecting a computer, an electronic device, etc., into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).

Internetting is the creation of a network of networks by interconnection of two or more computer networks.

1978 January, Frank Heinrich, “Usage of the NBS Data Encryption Algorithm”, in The Network Security Center: A System Level Approach to Computer Network Security (Computer Science & Technology; National Bureau of Standards Special Publication; 500-21, volume 2), Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce; U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, section 2.3 (Internetting), page 24:

"Internetting can make or break a network," Sytek, Inc.'s Robert R. Shatzer said during a session on local-area network gateways at the Interface '82 conference here last week. […] To illustrate the internetting concept, Shatzer displayed a chart in which small local-area networks were linked to large local networks, which were in turn tied to metropolitan networks, which were finally linked to long-haul networks.

1982 March 29, Bruce Hoard, “‘Internetting Can Make or Break Net,’ Sytek Director Tells Conference Session”, in John C. Whitmarsh, editor, Computerworld: The Newsweekly for the Computer Community, volume XVI, number 13, Framingham, Mass.: CW Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, columns 1 and 3:

The user pays about 90 percent of the total costs of internetting—for a workstation or personal computer (PC), software, the local nets, and external connections—most of which would be paid by the user in any case for office, campus, or general communications.

1998, W. Russell Neuman, Lee McKnight, Richard Jay Solomon, “The Nature of Networks”, in The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway, Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 79:

The act of connecting multiple computer networks together; internetworking.

"I understand," Stoll said stiffly. "I'll do some hacking, internetting, see what I can find."

1995 November, [Jeff Rovin], created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, “Monday, 8:20 a.m., Washington, D.C.”, in Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 120:

(informal) The act of using the Internet; specifically, searching for information using the Internet.


anonymouse

(Internet, slang) A person who posts to an online forum, or otherwise distributes information anonymously


arachnerd

Blend of arachnid + nerd, as a play on web and Web. Included on lists of Internet slang as early as 1996.

Why do I find these Internet neologisms so interesting? Guess it's because I'm a bona-fide arachnerd, a person that spends way too much time either surfing the Web or fussing with their home page.

2003 June 8, Chris Sherman, “To Google, and Other Internet Neologisms”, in Search Engine Watch:

(Internet, slang) A person who spends a lot of time on the World Wide Web.


blogebrity

en-noun

blogebrity (countable and uncountable, plural blogebrities)

It's been quite a turnaround for Hilton, who said that before becoming a blogebrity he had been in a deep depression and last year filed for bankruptcy and was fired from a job at a celebrity weekly magazine.

2006 November 6, “Perez Hilton says he's an 'outsider'”, in USA Today:

(Internet, informal, countable) A well-known or popular blogger.

Given that there are more than 80 million blogs out there, according to the Web-tracking site Technorati, with roughly 15.5 million of them active, "blogebrity" is quite a bizarre phenomenon anyway.

2008, “Introduction”, in Sarah Boxer, editor, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page xii:

(Internet, informal, uncountable) The state or phenomenon of fame achieved through blogging.


TFS

(Internet, Internet slang, text messaging, letter-writing, occasionally used) Initialism of thanks for sending.

letter-writing; occasionally used; letter-writing; occasionally used


webutation

Have you seen what that person is saying about you online? They are destroying your webutation.

(Internet, neologism) A person's or company's reputation on the World Wide Web.