bleg

Blend of blog + beg. British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.

coin

I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.

Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?

2008 August 29, Andrew Sullivan, “The Utter Arrogance Of It”, in The Atlantic:

Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.

2010 September 9, James Wolcott, “A Grammar of Motives*”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 2013-01-14:

This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]

2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, acknowledgments section, page 267:

(Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.


bleg

en-verb

bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)

blegs (present singular third-person)
blegging (participle present)
blegged (participle past)
blegged (past)

That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.

The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.

2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].

2009 November 30, John J. Miller, “Novels of the Right, cont.”, in National Review Online:

Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."

2009 August 7, Curtis Brainard, “It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…”, in Columbia Journalism Review:

Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.

2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:

(Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.


link whoring

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(Internet, informal, often derogatory) The practice of going out of one's way to place links to one's website on someone else's web page.


tether

tether (third-person singular simple present tethers, present participle tethering, simple past and past participle tethered)

tethers (present singular third-person)
tethering (participle present)
tethered (participle past)
tethered (past)

From Middle English tether, teder, from Old English *tēoder and/or Old Norse tjóðr ( > Danish tøjr, Swedish tjuder); both from Proto-Germanic *teudrą (“rope; cord; shaft”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dewtro-, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to tie”), or from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with North German Tüder (“tether for binding the cattle”), Swedish tjuder (“tether for binding cattle”).

inh

(transitive) To connect to something else.

(Internet, transitive) To connect (a smartphone) to a personal computer in order to give the computer access to the phone's Internet connection.


distro

en-noun

distro (countable and uncountable, plural distros)

(Internet, software, countable) A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.


Wiki

Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.


Ajax

THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...

2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press, →ISBN:

Natchitoches Parish
Natchitoches Parish#English

An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.


Android

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(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system currently developed by Google.


Gopher

From the gopher, mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the Gopher protocol was developed.

(Internet, historical) An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

gopher-protokolla

an Internet protocol for document search/retrieval


Gram

Very good,” the store owner said, eyeing the slits on the side of the dress that exposed Naeema's cinnamon brown skin. “Makeup?” she asked. “Do it for the Gram!” the woman said holding up a cell phone. Naeema held up one finger, blocking ...

2015, Meesha Mink, All Hail the Queen: An Urban Tale, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 95:


Go

From go, likely with reference to the first two letters of Google.

Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go.

2021, Jon Bodner, Learning Go, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 327:

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.


Kappa

From English kappa, borrowed from Japanese 河童 (kappa, “water imp”). Included as an Easter Egg by an early Twitch employee.

(Internet) Used to indicate sarcasm in imitation of Kappa as used on Twitch.tv


Mastodon

However, the underlying design of platforms within [The Free Network] such as Mastodon, Diaspora and others ... opens the door to security and harassment problems.

2020, Kevin Veale, Gaming the Dynamics of Online Harrassment, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 113:

Since Musk bought the bird app last month, users are looking for ways to access Mastodon, the open source microblogging platform that isn’t quite Twitter but seems to be the closest thing to it, and they’re signing up for its many servers in droves.

2022 November 9, Amanda Hoover, “Twitter Users Have Caused a Mastodon Meltdown”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(social media) A decentralized microblogging platform, part of the Fediverse.


Meta

The technology conglomerate is named for its connotative evocation of the idea of the metaverse, the research tool after metascience.

Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc. (until late 2021): an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company that is the parent organization of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, among other subsidiaries.

(historical, 2010–2022) Meta, a biomedical research discovery tool.


Meta

Named after Meta Schreifer, the sister of a railroad official, from German Meta.


Google

Misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

(trademark) A particular Internet company.


np

(text messaging, Internet) Abbreviation of no problem.


sc

(Internet) Initialism of screen capture.


TC

(Internet) Initialism of topic closed: indicating that no further replies are allowed in a discussion thread.


tl

Alternative form: TL

Meanwhile, others just begged James to "PLEASE STOP" with his "oversharing," with some people on Twitter also asking other users to "stop putting James Charles tucking himself on my tl."

2022 May 27, “James Charles Loses Over 100K Followers After Posting His Tuck”, in Paper:

why are all of your accounts all over my tl why are you everywhere /pos /rh

2023 November 17, @swallowedbysin_, Twitter:


BOFH

bastard operator from hell
bastard operator from hell#English

(slang, computing, Internet) Initialism of bastard operator from hell.


AMA

Alberta Motor Association
w:Alberta Motor Association

Initialism of Alberta Motor Association.


AMA

(Internet) Initialism of ask me anything: usually attached to the end of a prompt in an “ask me anything” interview session.


AMA

We did this after the company abruptly terminated Victoria Taylor, a Reddit employee who worked extensively with us as well as with other moderator teams on facilitating A.M.A.s.

2015 July 8, Brian Lynch, Courtnie Swearingen, “Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum”, in The New York Times:

While Obama’s AMA ended up being a bit bland, the experiences and knowledge shared by the vacuum repair man made it one of the most popular and memorable AMAs ever hosted.

2016 October 10, Will Cenci, “Why scientists should learn to love Reddit”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) Initialism of ask me anything.


WebDAV

w:Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning

(Internet) Abbreviation of Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning.


DD

DD (countable and uncountable, plural DDs)

(Internet) Initialism of direct download.


spamvertising

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(Internet) The practice of sending spam email, or of posting similar material on a wiki, blog or notice board, in order to advertise or attract search engines to a website.


flame bait

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(Internet) A deliberately provocative posting intended to start a flame war.


flamage

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If you insist on posting your baby photos to that abortion newsgroup, get ready for some flamage.

(Internet, slang) flame postings considered as a group


flame war

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Remember, Smokey the Bear says, "Only you can prevent flame wars".

2008 July 12, Megan McArdle, “Note to trolls”, in The Atlantic:

That post was the starting point for a flame war between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Tanenbaum and a bunch of other enthusiasts, who later became the first Linux developers.

2019, Kamran Amini, Extreme C, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 362:

(Internet) An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only to escalate the dispute.


GP

GP (countable and uncountable, plural GPs or GP)

I don't think your response really answers the GP's question.

(Internet) Initialism of grandparent poster; the person two levels up in a nested conversation thread.


TLD

top-level domain
top-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of top-level domain.


tweeter

The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.

2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quoting David Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(social media) One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.

(social media, by extension) A poster on a microblogging social networking service.


cross-link

Coordinate term: back-link

There's no downside to providing reasonable cross links, and several reasons for providing them. For example, effective cross-linking keeps visitors on your site longer (as opposed to heading off-site because they can't find what they need on your site."

2006 May 23, Harold Davis, Search Engine Optimization, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 33:

(Internet) An internal hyperlink to another webpage belonging to the same web domain.


cross-link

en-verb

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

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

Coordinate term: back-link

(Internet) To add an internal hyperlink between two webpages belonging to the same web domain.


OTC

(slang, Internet, text messaging) Initialism of on the cheek.


vlog

Blend of video + blog, itself a rebracketing of weblog.

When you create this kind of videoless vlog, where you don't have the video recorded on a camcorder, you have to be more conscious of the story you want to tell.

2006, Stephanie Cottrell Bryant, Videoblogging for Dummies, page 83:

(Internet) A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.


vlog

vlog (third-person singular simple present vlogs, present participle vlogging, simple past and past participle vlogged)

vlogs (present singular third-person)
vlogging (participle present)
vlogged (participle past)
vlogged (past)

I like to take walks when I'm having my breaks at work, and then I vlog my walks and put them online. I can just ramble on about philosophy, or whatever.

2005 September 10, “Vloggers get political in Norway”, in BBC Online:

(Internet, intransitive) To contribute to a video weblog.

(Internet, transitive) To post (something) to a video weblog.


shopping basket

en-noun

shopping basket (plural shopping baskets)

(Internet) A page on a shopping website where one's prospective purchases are listed before payment.

cistella

(Internet) page on a shopping website where one's prospective purchases are listed before payment


SPF

Sender Policy Framework
w:Sender Policy Framework

(Internet) Initialism of Sender Policy Framework.


internet

en-verb

internet (third-person singular simple present internets, present participle internetting, simple past and past participle internetted)

internets (present singular third-person)
internetting (participle present)
internetted (participle past)
internetted (past)

[ˈɪntʰɚˌnɛt̚]

[ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌnɛt̚]

The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.

Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.

We have several groups of Internetters, from Alaska, from New Zealand, and a group from San Francisco interested in deserts as a context where different faiths developed. Internetting with them could stimulate discussion. Internetting with other countries is seen as a way of broadening the students' areas of interest and triggering their questions.

2002, Soshana Keiny, “The Conceptual Framework of the Book”, in Ecological Thinking: A New Approach to Educational Change, Lanham, Md., New York, N.Y.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 14:

Most of us, before and after the second uprising, can be found in schools, offices, or factories, going about our everyday lives. Dreaming, working hard for a future. Texting, internetting, entertaining ourselves in the present.

2005, Vincente L. Rafael, “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines”, in Daniel Rosenberg, Susan Harding, editors, Histories of the Future, Durham, N.C., London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 87:

I collect cookbooks, too. And recipes, you know, that I've internetted.

2021, Shirley Goldberg, chapter 15, in Eat Your Heart Out (Starting Over; 2), [Adams Basin, N.Y.?]: The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:

(intransitive, Internet, informal) To use the internet; specifically, to search for information by using the internet.

internetten

to use the internet; to search for information by using the internet


NTA

National Tax Agency
w:National Tax Agency

Initialism of National Tax Agency (of Japan), the Japanese government agency that collects taxes and enforces tax law.

National Tax Agency

w:National Transport Authority (Ireland)

(Ireland) Initialism of National Transport Authority.


NTA

(Internet slang, Reddit slang) Initialism of not the asshole; used as a response to AITA (“am I the asshole?”).

not the asshole

(Internet slang) Initialism of not that anon.


FTA

(Internet) Initialism of from the article. (used in Internet message boards when quoting articles)


WP

(Internet) Initialism of Wirtualna Polska.

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Wikipedia.


OT

en-adj

OT (comparative more OT, superlative most OT)

more OT (comparative)
most OT (superlative)


oof

An onomatopoeia. Similar to Dutch oef and German uff.

Fans were quick to express their disappointment at the removal of what has now become an iconic sound in the gaming space. The audio is trending on Twitter under #SaveTheOOF and Big Oof.

2022 July 27, Eleni Thomas, “Roblox is removing iconic “oof” sound after copyright issues”, in Dexerto:

That actually hits me home because I used to drink tequila sunrises when I first started drinking. So that’s an oof.

2022 September 22, Vinepair Staff, “The Cocktail College Podcast: How to Make the Perfect El Diablo”, in The Cocktail College Podcast:

(Internet) Something cringeworthy, or which arouses disappointment, often used in conjunction with the qualifier big.


TGIF

(marketing) Initialism of Twitter, Google, iPhone/iPad or Instagram, Facebook.


news channel

The phrase [Web syndication] often refers to web news feeds (news channels) that provide an up-to-date summary of recently added contents and the latest changes of web sites.

2012, Leslie Sikos, Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML, page 307:


NSF

(Internet, acronymy component) Initialism of not safe for [context] or initialism of not suitable for [context]: labels online content as being not appropriate for, and not to be clicked or displayed in, the named context; for example, NSFW (work), NSFL (life or lunch), NSFM (minors).


registrar

/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪsˌtɹɑɹ/

From Medieval Latin registrārius, from registrum (“register”) + -ārius (“agent”). See more at register.

(Internet) A service that manages the reservation of domain names.


DPI

en-noun

DPI (countable and uncountable, plural DPIs)

deep packet inspection
w:deep packet inspection

(Internet) Initialism of deep packet inspection.


SOP

SOP (countable and uncountable, plural SOPs)

same-origin policy
same-origin policy#English

(Internet) Initialism of same-origin policy.

(Internet, countable) Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”).


PIA

PIA (countable and uncountable, plural PIAs)

(Internet) Initialism of pain in the ass.


talker

From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.

(Internet) A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.


ESP

ESP (countable and uncountable, plural ESPs)

email service provider
w:mailbox provider

(Internet) Initialism of email service provider.


LIR

local Internet registry
w:local Internet registry

(Internet) Initialism of local Internet registry.


RSS

Another theory is that RSS was always too geeky for regular people. Even the New York Times, which seems to have been eager to adopt RSS and promote it to its audience, complained in 2006 that RSS is a “not particularly user friendly” acronym coined by “computer geeks.”

2019 January 9, Sinclair Target, “The Rise and Demise of RSS”, in Motherboard:

(Internet) Initialism of Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication (“mechanism to follow updates on other websites such as news, music, blogs, etc.”).

Rich Site Summary

(Internet, deprecated) Initialism of RDF Site Summary.


packet

en-verb

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

packets (present singular third-person)
packeting (participle present)
packeted (participle past)
packeted (past)

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]

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

(transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.


OCS

(Internet) Initialism of Open Collaboration Services (an open and vendor-independent API to access online services)


OCS

(Internet) Initialism of Online Charging System (a system allowing providers of communication services to charge customers based on service usage)

Online Charging System

(Internet) Initialism of Origin Content Server (another name for a Web server)


DMCA

DMCA (third-person singular simple present DMCAs, present participle DMCAing, simple past and past participle DMCAed or DMCA'd)

DMCAs (present singular third-person)
DMCAing (participle present)
DMCAed (participle past)
DMCAed (past)
DMCA'd (participle past)
DMCA'd (past)

The record label DMCAed several Web sites that were hosting copyrighted song lyrics.

(informal, transitive, Internet) To serve a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notification against, so as to have infringing material taken down.


podcatcher

(Internet) A podcast client; a device, or software, that can receive a podcast.


notice board

(Internet) An online forum where users can post and read messages.


unvoiced

(Internet) Of an IRC user: not granted voice privileges.


checkout

en-noun

checkout (countable and uncountable, plural checkouts)

(Internet, by extension) The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.


web page

Holonym: website

Dave Bishop, an amateur astronomer, operates a supernova web page at www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html, which lists new discoveries, including images.

2007 March, Doug Rich, “How to Search for Supernovae”, in Astronomy, volume 35, number 3, pages 70–72:

(Internet) A single hypertext document (transmitted as HTML) on the World Wide Web, often hyperlinked to others, and intended to be viewed with a web browser.


SSR

server-side rendering
server-side rendering#English

(web development) Initialism of server-side rendering.


grifter

From grift + -er; or probably an alteration of grafter (“a corrupt person, one who accepts bribes”), which is essentially a doublet of the same word. Originally circus slang, gradually widened in sense. First attested in 1906.

(colloquial, especially Internet) A manipulator or otherwise generally corrupt person who "games" a system, group of people, or other entity for selfish gains; especially of a political "sell-out" perceived as lacking integrity.


slider

From slide + -er.
The meaning "small hamburger" was originally used to describe onion-steamed small burgers at White Castle restaurants, formerly spelt "Slyder".
Regarding the senses about control devices or widgets: physical sliders (potentiometers serving as rheostats) predate virtual ones (elements in graphical user interfaces), and the virtual ones are so named because their concept is the abstraction of the physical ones; if more explanation on that topic is needed, it is available in the Wikipedia articles on skeuomorphs, icons, and the desktop metaphor.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.


netizen

The netizen posted their question on the forum.

Do we have to learn a new kind of language — ‘Netspeak’, as I shall call it — in order to be a netizen?

2001, David Crystal, “A linguistic perspective”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge: The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, published 2002, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:

It appeared by Wednesday evening that Congress would follow Bank of America, Netflix and Verizon as the latest institution to change course in the face of a netizen revolt.

2012 January 19, Johnathan Weisman, “Web Rises Up To Deflect Bills Seen as Threat”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2012-01-19, page A1:

A $25,000 (£19,000) prize pool was established to reward the best solutions, and the competition was hosted on Kaggle – a Google-owned platform used by more than a million netizens to build AI models, find and share datasets, and collaborate with fellow Kagglers.

2020 January 21, Katyanna Quach, “How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2020-01-23:

The use of the term "West Taiwan" (西台灣) to mock China has steadily grown in popularity since January 2020 when President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said that Beijing needs to face the reality that Taiwan is already an independent country. At the time, netizens conjured terms such as "Mainland Taiwan," "Taiwanese Beijing," and "West Taiwan" to agitate Chinese nationalists, censors, and trolls.

2021 December 9, Keoni Everington, “German video game ad labels China 'West Taiwan'”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2021-12-09:

(Internet) A member of the community of Internet users.


DoS

(computing, Internet) A denial-of-service attack.


DoS

en-verb

DoS (third-person singular simple present DoSes, present participle DoSing, simple past and past participle DoSed)

DoSes (present singular third-person)
DoSing (participle present)
DoSed (participle past)
DoSed (past)

In addition to out-of-spec traffic, malicious packets can contain payloads that cause a system to crash. A packet's payload is taken as input into a service. If the input is not properly checked, the application can be DoSed.

2003, Jack Koziol, Intrusion Detection with Snort, Indianapolis, IN: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:

(transitive, computing, Internet) To commit a denial-of-service attack against.


DDOS

(Internet, computer security) A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.


DDOS

DDOS (third-person singular simple present DDOSes, present participle DDOSing, simple past and past participle DDOSed)

DDOSes (present singular third-person)
DDOSing (participle present)
DDOSed (participle past)
DDOSed (past)

With this approach, the noncritical traffic could be DDOSed to death, but the important stuff would still move.

2002, James F. Dunnigan, The Next War Zone: Confronting the Global Threat of Cyberterrorism, Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 209:

It’s as if the networked public sphere, and indeed traditional institutions of democracy, can be DDOSed via releasing large numbers of flares, each attracting and consuming attention, thus making focus and sustained conversation impossible.

2017, Zeynep Tufekci, “Epilogue: The Uncertain Climb”, in Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

Being offline would be expensive for a server owner if, say, they were DDOSed by a botnet. If you controlled a botnet and threatened to DDOS them, you could make some money.

2018, Charles Arthur, “The internet of hacked things: Mirai”, in Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World, Kogan Page, →ISBN, page 186:

(Internet, computer security, transitive) To attack by DDOS.


botnet

Then they blacklisted addresses used by spammers. In response, senders started using botnets (networks of otherwise innocent computers).

2010 November 20, “Long life spam”, in The Economist:

(Internet, computer security) A collection of compromised computers that is gradually built up and then unleashed as a DDOS attack or used to send very large quantities of spam.


pop-up advertisement

en-noun

pop-up advertisement (plural pop-up advertisements)

(Internet, advertising) An advertisement that takes the form of a window that appears automatically on a computer screen when certain websites are visited.


blockquote

From the name of an HTML element for this purpose, from block + quote.

(Internet) a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a webpage, as by italicization and indentation


pop-up

pop-up advertisement
pop-up advertisement

(Internet) A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.

anunci emergent

advertisement that pops up when one accesses an Internet page


BCC

blind carbon copy
blind carbon copy#English

Alternative letter-case form of bcc; initialism of blind carbon copy.


POS

Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?

(Internet, text messaging) Initialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).


trialware

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From trial + -ware, a contraction of software.

(Internet) Software that can be tried for a limited time, after which it expires or has limited functionality.


speedy

en-verb

speedy (third-person singular simple present speedies, present participle speedying, simple past and past participle speedied)

speedies (present singular third-person)
speedying (participle present)
speedied (participle past)
speedied (past)

From Middle English spedy, spedi, from Old English spēdiġ (“having good speed, lucky, prosperous; having means, wealthy, opulent, rich in material wealth; rich in, abounding in, abundant, plenteous, copious; powerful”), from Proto-Germanic *spōdigaz (“successful, hurried”), equivalent to speed + -y. Cognate with Scots spedie (“speedy”), Dutch spoedig (“speedy, swift, rapid, quick”), German sputig, spudig (“industrious, speedy”).

cog

The guy is *not* so obviously insignificant that speedying him is appropriate.

(transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); to speedy delete.


deviant

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From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”.
* (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.

inh

Alternative form: Deviant

In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance).

2014, Peter Mechant, Lieven De Marez, “Studying Web 2.0 Interactivity: A Research Framework and Two Case Studies”, in Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 1709:

While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly.

2009, Grekkikay, post on how to critique art; quoted in Linda Vigdor, “Constructing Learning through the Creative Evaluation of Visual Arts Production”, in Hiesun Cecilia Suhr, editor, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, 2015, section “Creative Evaluation as Practiced in Three Critique Environments”, exhibit 2 (DeviantArt.com), pages 87–88:

Our data stem from these DD’s and galleries of the corresponding deviants and were acquired directly from dA Headquarters.

2013 February 22, Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, Albert Ali Salah, “Flow of innovation in deviantArt: following artists on an online social network site”, in Mind & Society, volume 12, pages 137–149:

Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011).

2016, Brian Lee Jones, “Deviously Deviant: The Strange Tapestry that is deviantART.com”, in Barbara Guzzetti, Mellinee Lesley, editors, Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media (Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts), Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 390:

“Deviants continue to own their own works,” [Angelo] Sotira wrote. “In the future, there's a possibility Wix might provide opportunities for you to license your work — only if you want to — to more people around the world.”

2017 February 24, Natt Garun, “Wix has acquired DeviantArt, which may let artists license their work for the site builder”, in The Verge:

(Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.


selector

Coordinate term: URL

Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.

1996, Kenneth H. Rosen, UNIX System V, Release 4: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, page 438

(Internet, historical) A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.

селектор

text string identifying a Gopher resource to be retrieved


rollover

en-noun

rollover (countable and uncountable, plural rollovers)

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(graphical user interface, chiefly web design) A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.

osoitettaessa muuttuva elementti

computing: a graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it


link farm

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Coordinate term: content farm

(computing) A website containing many hyperlinks, especially one designed to increase the index ranking of other websites to search engines.


bot herd

So-called bot herds - networks of compromised PCs under the control of a malicious hacker - continue to be used as launch pads for other types of attack

2005 September 19, “Hackers target net call systems”, in BBC Online:

(Internet, computer security) A large collection of compromised systems exploited for malicious purposes.


webinar

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I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.

Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.

2002, Ann Rockley, Managing Enterprise Content:

Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.

2003, Francoise Tourniaire, Just Enough CRM:

It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars, it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.

2003, Andrea Learned, quoted in Martha Barletta's Marketing to Women http://print.google.com/print?id=hQKnE5aIu5IC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&sig=0Xj5El2z1UkcFVD8xg5WN74mMZQ

Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.

2006, Selling Power, Volume 26, Issues 1-9, page 44

One other point: An impressive site design can never rescue poorly written copy, sloppy videos, or boring webinar recordings.

2011, Jon Wuebben, Content is Currency: Developing Powerful Content for Web and Mobile, page 28:

Although there are many other tools that are available in a webinar tool, these are the ones you'll find yourself using most often.

2013, Kristin Kipp, Teaching on the Education Frontier, page 82:

An interactive seminar conducted via Internet. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through text-based chat, voice, video, or file-sharing.


smexily

en-adv

smexily (comparative more smexily, superlative most smexily)

more smexily (comparative)
most smexily (superlative)

(Internet, colloquial) sexily; in a sexy way


MW

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of MediaWiki.


all your base are belong to us

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Mistranslation of Japanese 君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた (literally “we (CATS) have taken all of your bases”). This grammatically incorrect "Engrish" phrase originated in the English subtitles of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the 1989 Japanese arcade game Zero Wing and became a catchphrase and meme on the Internet in the early 2000s.

der

君達の基地は、全てCATSがいただいた

(Internet slang, humorous) Used to tout victory over an opponent, or simply as a humorous catchphrase.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

Coordinate term: broadcaster

For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different.

2016 February 23, Jason Mittell, “Why Netflix Doesn’t Release Its Ratings”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-11-01:

So where HBO used to boast that it was “not TV,” modern streamers send the message, “We’ll give you a whole lot of TV.”

2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(television, Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.

Most streamers are on Twitch

There was perhaps no group of creators more prepared for the horrors of 2020 than streamers. Sitting in front of their cameras, often alone, talking for hours to the camera is what they do, and many are excellent at it.

2020 December 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.


cascade

From French cascade, from Italian cascata, from cascare (“to fall”), from Vulgar Latin *cāsicāre, derived from Latin cadere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-.

Don't you hate cascades? I hate cascades!

1993, e.j.barker, “Disassociation”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.

1999, anonymous author, “CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999”, in alt.test (Usenet):

Anyway. I didn't mean to say that everyone who posts URLs is bad and wrong and should lose their breathing privileges. Just that I was getting weary of look-at-this-link posts, sort of like some people get sick of cascades.

2004, swt, “ARRR!”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

(Internet) A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).


catfish

From the 2010 documentary Catfish, supposedly inspired by the practice of fishermen keeping cod active by storing them with catfish (see sense 1) which nip at their tails.

(Internet) Someone who creates a false profile on a social media platform in order to deceive people.


catfish

en-verb

catfish (third-person singular simple present catfishes, present participle catfishing, simple past and past participle catfished)

catfishes (present singular third-person)
catfishing (participle present)
catfished (participle past)
catfished (past)

Getting catfished is when someone falls for a person online who is not necessarily real. It can involve pictures, phone calls, social media profiles, text messages, e-mails and even phony friends or family members.

2013 January 17, Mary Pilon, “In Te’o Story, Deception Ripped From the Screen”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

[to Abed] You made a profile for a fake dude and lured her into an online relationship. [to Annie] He's catfishing you.

2014 January 16, 12:17 from the start, in Cooperative Polygraphy (Community), season 5, episode 4 (TV), spoken by Troy (Donald Glover), via NBC:

(Internet, slang, transitive) To create and operate a fake online profile to deceive (someone).


blahg

(Internet slang, derogatory) A dull, uninteresting weblog.


SWIM

SWIM would like to know how to grow marijuana.

(Internet) Someone who isn't me; someone who isn't myself


SSB

en-noun

SSB (countable and uncountable, plural SSBs)

To get a bit technical for a moment, the specific feature that Mozilla abandoned is called “site-specific browsers,” or SSBs.

2021 January 26, Jared Newman, “Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web”, in Fast Company:

site-specific browser
w:site-specific browser

(Internet) Initialism of site-specific browser.


EFF

(Internet, electronics, politics) Initialism of Electronic Frontier Foundation.


HT

HT (countable and uncountable, plural HTs)


plonk

(Internet) The supposed sound of adding a user to one's killfile.


IANAL

(Internet) Initialism of I am not a lawyer.


spammer

(computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.


in-line

Now the paragraph to which you applied the inline style should be light gray, as the inline CSS is overriding the embedded CSS and the linked style sheet. Any other default paragraphs should still be dark gray based on the embedded style.

2007, Simon Collison, Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional:

(web design, Cascading Style Sheets) Of a style: inserted in the style attribute of an HTML element instead of in a separate stylesheet.


DHCP

/ˈdiːˌeɪt͡ʃˌsiːˌpiː/

dynamic IP addressing
dynamic IP addressing#English

(Internet) Initialism of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (a protocol that computers use to decide on one IP address to use when using dynamic IP addressing, usually drawn from a limited pool of between 4 and 65,000 possible addresses).


NIC

Network Information Center
w:Network Information Center

(Internet) Acronym of Network Information Center.


EAP

EAP (countable and uncountable, plural EAPs)

(authentication, Internet) Initialism of Extensible Authentication Protocol.


VoD

VoD (countable and uncountable, plural VoDs)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Proto-Italic *widēō
Latin videōbor.
English video
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Middle English on
English on
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Latin manus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Latin -dō
Latin mandō
Latin dēmandō
Old French demanderbor.
Middle English demaunden
English demand
English VoD

etymon

service de média audiovisuel à la demande

(uncountable) Abbreviation of video on demand.

(Internet, countable) A replay of a live broadcast.

Abbreviation of video on demand.
A replay of a live broadcast.


LNA

(Internet) Initialism of local network adapter.

(Internet) Initialism of local network attachment.


dynamic IP address

en-noun

dynamic IP address (plural dynamic IP addresses)

internet service provider
internet service provider

(telecommunications) An IP address which changes periodically, when each time a user connects to their internet service provider.


dynamic IP addressing

(Internet) The use of a dynamic IP address.


TrackBack

(software, Internet, blogging) A protocol for a system that allows a blogger to see who has seen the original post and has written another entry concerning it.


OWA

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Outlook Web Access.


NFI

no fucking (freaking) idea
no idea#English

(Internet) Initialism of no fucking (freaking) idea; Expresses lack of knowledge on the subject matter


FGI

(Internet slang, vulgar) Initialism of fucking Google it.


ICS

ICS (countable and uncountable, plural ICSs)

(Internet, computing) Initialism of Internet connection sharing.


ops

Why don't I have ops in this channel any more?

Perhaps I might now add one more piece of etiquette advice, for which all chanops will thank me. If you want ops on a channel, don't beg for them […]

1995, Stuart H. Harris, The IRC Survival Guide, page 121:


internym

From inter- + -nym. Coined by Madeleine Page in the Internet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban.

Madeleine "why don't we just call the damn thing the "internym"?" Page

1997 February 23, Madeleine Page, “Epenthetics revisited”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):

Madeleine "internym goes here" Page

1997 July 29, Madeleine Page, “Photographs in bars”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):

I'm experimenting with the internym after seeing it so artfully used by others on other newsgroups.

1998 October 19, Rick Denney, “Our RST "middle names"...”, in rec.sport.triathlon (Usenet):

Michael "please destroy that message after reading[5]" Kuettner[6]
[…]
[5] This internym was inserted by the NSA to discredit [1]

2005 October 16, Michael Kuettner, “I know, it's not glass, but hey...”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):

(Internet) A phrase or epithet, particularly one intended to be witty, inserted in quotation marks between one's first and last names—or elsewhere by or in one's name, if this is not possible—at the end of a post.


NN

(Internet) Netscape Navigator, a former web browser


folksonomy

folksonomy (countable and uncountable, plural folksonomies)

(Internet, uncountable) The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.

2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 291:

(Internet, countable) A user-generated taxonomy.


wiz

One notorious trick in less reputable corners of the MUD universe is to talk somebody into going into a dark corner of a MUD for some tinysex — dirty talking via computer screen, within character for the MUD, along with explicit posing — a dark corner where some invisible wizzes are hiding.

2000, Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, revised edition, page 154:

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

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

(Internet, informal) A wizard; an administrator of a multi-user dungeon.


wiz

en-verb

wiz (third-person singular simple present wizzes, present participle wizzing, simple past and past participle wizzed)

wizzes (present singular third-person)
wizzing (participle present)
wizzed (participle past)
wizzed (past)

I lost interest and stopped playing soon after I wizzed.

(Internet, informal, intransitive) To be promoted to wizard (administrator) status in a multi-user dungeon, by completing the game quest.


photoshop

photoshop (third-person singular simple present photoshops, present participle photoshopping, simple past and past participle photoshopped)

photoshops (present singular third-person)
photoshopping (participle present)
photoshopped (participle past)
photoshopped (past)

From Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.

(transitive, Internet) To digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph.


BPL

(Internet, networking) Initialism of broadband over power line.


webcomic

From Web + comic. The word is first attested 2000, but websites titled "WebComics" existed previously (as early as 1995).

Webcomics certainly have their selling points. They are harder to censor and generally free from editorial meddling[…]

2008, Danny Fingeroth, The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, →ISBN, page 275:

Almost six years ago, Andrew Hussie began another one of a series of webcomics on his website, MS Paint Adventures. These early comics were experiments in fan-sourced storytelling: He’d create and monitor forums for character and story suggestions, then fold them into the story.

2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic:

(comics, Internet) An online comic, especially one first published on the Internet.


deletionist

en-adj

deletionist (comparative more deletionist, superlative most deletionist)

more deletionist (comparative)
most deletionist (superlative)

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In the deletionists’ corner sits the strong sense that the more topics of debatable value are included (they cite such entries as side characters from the Pokémon cartoon or the Heroes TV series as examples), the more dependents will see Wikipedia as a source of fun rather than knowledge. They are worried that the brand is at risk of losing its value. In a deletionist world, Wikipedia would exert more control over what it publishes. […]

2009, Emmanuel Gobillot, Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration, Kogan Page, published 2011, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 89:

(Wikimedia jargon) Preferring to delete material.


deletionist

(Wikimedia jargon) A user with deletionist sentiments.


ZOMG

/zəʊ̯ ɛm d͡ʒiː/

Variant of OMG, presumably from excited users accidentally hitting the Z key while attempting to press shift or from conscious imitation of such excitement. The earliest known existence of the term comes from the imageboard 4chan in 2004. The meme was spammed and eventually the name was given to the hidden board /z/.

I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that my initial reaction to this machine went something like: ZOMG it's an overgrown Blackberry.^([sic])

2007 August, Germaine Ong, “Sony Vaio VGN-UX38GN”, in GameAxis Unwired:

My fellow Tweeters were supportive, bless their hearts, but I know I was getting annoying constantly tweeting stuff like: "ZOMG I JUST BURNED 1K CALORIES!!11!"

2010, Shawn Collins, “Walking the Walk in Affiliate Marketing”, in Internet Marketing from the Real Experts, page 204:

What was he doing pursuing me? He didn't seem happy about it, like, ZOMG, I met my soul mate and now my life can begin! It was more like he was being compelled against his will.

2012, Cate Tiernan, Darkness Falls, page 62:

(Internet slang) An emphatic form of oh my God.


geek code

(Internet) A set of codes used in sigblocks to broadcast the (typically computer-related) interests, skills, and aspirations of the poster.


spamvertise

en-verb

spamvertise (third-person singular simple present spamvertises, present participle spamvertising, simple past and past participle spamvertised)

spamvertises (present singular third-person)
spamvertising (participle present)
spamvertised (participle past)
spamvertised (past)

Based on your arguments you must believe that C&S should be allowed to spamvertise.

1994 May 12, Stefan Chakerian, “Re: Appropriate cancels (Was Re: `Serdar Argic': Racist remarks?...)”, in news.admin.policy (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

I am also considering writing form pages where people can submit fake orders at the click of a mouse for sites that spamvertise to me.

2003 September 14, "Myob", “Guerilla spam fighting”, in alt.stop.spamming (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

These e-mail viruses are being develoepd by spammers to spamvertise better to you.

2003 September 19, Kristen Bayes, “New Virus”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

(Internet, slang, intransitive) To engage in spamvertising.

the variety who thinks it's "k-rad kewL" to spamvertise AOHell's trashy little HTML hole-in-the-wall with every post.

1997 March 14, "~*Spark The Heretic", “Re: is this stuff for real?/nora peal”, in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

I vote for #3. These guys probably also spamvertise G*e*n*e*r*i*c V*i*a*g*r*a and P*e*n*i*S P*i*l*l*S. They're scum.

2003 December 18, "Tegger®", “Re: Sludge-Maintenance manual interval changes”, in alt.autos.lexus (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

If I hijack your account/server and spamvertise my domain name why would the registrar care (or even know)?

2004 October 23, "SPAMJAMR", “I need everyone's help”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

(Internet, slang, transitive) To use spam to advertise.


sidebar

(Internet) A block of information placed at the side of a webpage.

Seitenleiste

(computing) information placed at the side of a webpage


hit and run

hit and run (third-person singular simple present hits and runs, present participle hitting and running, simple past hit and ran, past participle hit and run)

hits and runs (present singular third-person)
hitting and running (participle present)
hit and ran (past)
hit and run (participle past)

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(Internet, slang) To download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g., BitTorrent) without seeding.


colophon

Borrowed from Late Latin colophōn, from Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “peak or finishing touch”).

der

(by extension, Internet) A page on a website identifying the details of its creation, such as the author's name and the technologies used.


blind pig

The Web address isn't officially registered, it's a blind pig.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 197:

(Internet) A Web address on the Deep Web that piggybacks on a public domain but is not visible to the system.


torrent

From BitTorrent and the file extension it uses for metadata (.torrent); ultimately from etymology 1, carrying the notion of the flow of information.

I got a torrent of the complete works of Shakespeare the other day; I'm not sure why.

(Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.


netiquette

en-noun

netiquette (countable and uncountable, plural netiquettes)

Top-posting and spamming are considered poor netiquette on a newsgroup.

I would like to propose a netiquette rule, but I don't know where to post it.

1990 November 5, Dave Jones, “netiquette suggestion”, in news.misc (Usenet), message-ID <14434@goofy.megatest.UUCP>:

Manners count. On Usenet, the term is netiquette, and in the soap-opera group that Ms. Baym studied, it resembles professional courtesy.

[1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times, page C13:

I have bad netiquette. Every week this column ends with information on how to write to me. And, every six to 12 weeks, I get around to checking my e-mail.

2010 May 5, June Casagrande, “A Word, Please”, in Burbank Leader:

(Internet) Conduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may be expected or enforced by others.


baiter

(Internet, slang) A troll who deliberately posts aggravating messages on a message board to elicit responses.


hacktivism

Blend of hack + activism, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.

Hacktivism is a form of activism for social change that appropriates computers and electronic networks for this purpose. Also called electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism is geared to political ends.

2010, Pramod K. Nayar, An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 102:

My aim will be to identify and highlight the potential problems of the existing approach that is followed when dealing with hacktivism and its impact on user rights, protesters, and overall cybersecurity.

2018, Vasileios Karagiannopoulos, Living With Hacktivism, Springer, →ISBN, page viii:

(Internet) The practice of promoting a political agenda by hacking, especially by defacing or disabling websites.


fark

en-verb

fark (third-person singular simple present farks, present participle farking, simple past and past participle farked)

farks (present singular third-person)
farking (participle present)
farked (participle past)
farked (past)

From the name of the popular website Fark, because when it links to a small website from its main page, the small site is often subjected to so much new traffic that it is rendered inoperable due to server failure.

(Internet, transitive, US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.


sporgery

en-noun

sporgery (countable and uncountable, plural sporgeries)

Blend of spam + forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr in 1999 on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup.

Since February the poetry-bot has dominated the discussions, forging the names of legitimate human posters and blindly countering every argument-- pro or con-- with such succinct rebuttals as "Above no cough at no writer every considerate profit addressed," and mind-bending riddles like "Why is another horseman either cytoplasm enchantingly?" Usenet defenders are countering the assault with automation of their own, crafting programs that kill the "sporgeries" -- a term coined by ARS's Tilman Hausherr "because it's both spam, and forgery."

1999 May 6, Kevin Poulsen, “Attack of the Robotic Poets”, in ZDnet:

Nobody's going to mistake any of the fakes for the real you once they hear a few words, of course, but there's no easy way for them to tell which is which without listening to them all in turn. Which means, in all likelihood, that many of them will never find the real you. If it happens often enough, sooner or later everyone's going to just give up and go home, and newcomers will be both mystified and discouraged. This extraordinary state of affairs is happening right now on Usenet [and yes, it is to a first approximation still happening in late 2006], and it's called "sporge". Sporge is a neologism coined by German software developer Tilman Hausherr; it's a contraction of "spammed forgery". "Spam" is here used in its original meaning; not unsolicited commercial e-mail, but irrelevant or inappropriate messages posted to Usenet, which were annoying people - though far fewer people - long before Amazing Business Opportunities and come-ons for porn sites started routinely cluttering up e-mail in-boxes.

1999 September 16, Daniel Rutter, “Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?”, in Australian IT:

Tilman Hausherr, a daily contributor to alt.religion.scientology, coined the word 'sporgeries' (spam-forgeries), and promoted software to kill the unwelcome messages.

2005, M. Hojsgaard, Religion and Cyberspace, Routledge, →ISBN, page 111:

Sporgery - This is the act of sending a flood of posts with fake article headers that make them appear to have been sent by other newsgroup regulars (the word is a composite of spam and forgery). It's a good way to discredit other users by making it seem like they are sending offensive posts.

2007, Michael Powell, Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 252:

(Internet) The disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.


influencer

→ Azerbaijani: təsirçi (calque)

→ Dutch: influencer

→ French: influenceur (calque)

→ German: Influencer

desc

→ Japanese: インフルエンサー

→ Japanese: インフルエンサー

→ Hungarian: influencer, influenszer

→ Polish: influencer

→ Spanish: influencer

→ Portuguese: influenciador (calque)

Coordinate term: creator

By now you have probably heard of influencers, that group of internet-famous people who have more than a million social media followers and can make big money by plugging various brands. And you may have even heard of microinfluencers, who do the same thing for a still sizable but somewhat smaller social media audience — from the tens to low hundreds of thousands.

2018 November 11, Sapna Maheshwari, “Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?”, in New York Times:

The idea of an influencer economy or streaming economy might have caused eyes to roll just a couple years ago, but the reality is that this segment of the economy is growing fast. More importantly, it is the part of the economy (and type of engagement) that is most appealing to the increasingly important millennial and Gen-Z cohorts.

2020 August 4, Sean Stein Smith, “Blockchain, TikTok, And The Influencer Economy - What Are The Connections?”, in Forbes:

Over the past year, mansions full of young influencers have proliferated across the United States (in Los Angeles, Dallas and Las Vegas) and around the world (France, the U.K., Mexico, Spain and Russia).

2020 December 11, Taylor Lorenz, “The New Influencer Capital of America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(social media, marketing) A person who is able to influence consumption, lifestyle, or political preferences of their online audience by creating or engaging social media content, often as a part of a marketing campaign.

網紅 /网红 (mong⁵ hung⁴, literally “network celebrity”)

網紅 /网红 (wǎnghóng, literally “network celebrity”)


spamdexing

(SEO) The inclusion of deliberately misleading terms on a website in order to manipulate its ranking in a search engine.

spamdexing

deliberately manipulating search engines


deactivate

en-verb

deactivate (third-person singular simple present deactivates, present participle deactivating, simple past and past participle deactivated)

deactivates (present singular third-person)
deactivating (participle present)
deactivated (participle past)
deactivated (past)

(Internet, euphemistic, neologism) to commit suicide


gtg

(Internet) Abbreviation of get-together.


DNF

(Internet slang, social media) Initialism of do not follow.


blogography

(Internet, rare) A biography in blog format.


DM

en-noun

DM (countable and uncountable, plural DMs)

He later sent me a DM mentioning that he would send me what he wears because he does a lot of walking. This is where the relationships online can get a wee bit weird.

2012, Scott Stratten, Alison Kramer, UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging:

(Internet) Initialism of direct message (type of message on social media platforms).


courier

currier (without the foot-strut split or with the hurry–furry merger)

From a convergence of Middle English corour, currour, from Old French coreor, agent noun of corir (“to run”), and Middle English courier, a borrowing of Middle French courrier, from Italian corriere.

You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

These sites have enormous hard drives and bandwidth for couriers to distribute the software from one site to the next.

2005, Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software Piracy Exposed, page 2:

(Internet) A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.


dot-commer

Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:

(computing) Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.


(Internet) Initialism of 3D Markup Language: a file format used to develop three-dimensional multimedia representations of documents to be presented on the World Wide Web.


spamblock

(computing) Text inserted into an email address in order to make it invalid, though still readable to a human being. For example, in "jsmith-[AT]-example-[DOT]-com", the "@" and "." symbols have been replaced with literal text to prevent automated spambots from finding the email address while still leaving it readable.


spamblock

en-verb

spamblock (third-person singular simple present spamblocks, present participle spamblocking, simple past and past participle spamblocked)

spamblocks (present singular third-person)
spamblocking (participle present)
spamblocked (participle past)
spamblocked (past)

(computing) To obfuscate (an email address) with a spamblock.


Document Object Model

en-noun

Document Object Model (plural Document Object Models)

(Internet) A cross-platform, language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in HTML, XHTML and XML documents.


MSP

MSP (countable and uncountable, plural MSPs)

mail service provider
w:mailbox provider

(Internet) Initialism of mail service provider.


hot spot

titik panas

location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas

пизэке

(figuratively) A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.

(Internet, networking) A location in which Wi-Fi Internet access is available.


wheel war

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From wheel (“superuser on certain systems”) + war.

compound

WHEEL WARS. A period during which student wheels hack each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other’s files, or otherwise wreak havoc—usually at the expense of the lesser users. A battle of Titans (heh heh).

[1983, Guy L. Steele Jr., Donald R. Woods, Raphael A. Finkel, Mark R. Crispin, Richard M. Stallman, Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, The Hacker’s Dictionary: A Guide to the Computer Underground, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 123:

Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator repeatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Many of us prefer to ask a colleague to intervene in a situation in which we risk entering a “wheel war” (when two or more editors revert each others’ edits over and over) or when we believe we need a consultation with a fresh eye.

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(computing, slang) A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the system or repeatedly attempt to reverse each other’s administrative actions.


emote

en-verb

emote (third-person singular simple present emotes, present participle emoting, simple past and past participle emoted)

emotes (present singular third-person)
emoting (participle present)
emoted (participle past)
emoted (past)

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The verb is a back-formation from emotion. The noun is derived from the verb.

(Internet, text messaging) To express a virtual action, presented to other users as a graphic or reported speech, rather than sending a straightforward message.

emover

to perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a straightforward message


emote

She replied with an emote: "*hugs* I'm sorry"

(Internet, text messaging) A virtual action expressed to other users as a graphic or reported speech rather than a straightforward message.

emovimiento

virtual action expressed to other users as reported speech rather than a straightforward message

(Internet, Twitch-speak) Short for emoticon.


sinkhole

From Middle English sinkehole, sinkeholl, equivalent to sink + hole.

(Internet) A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.


sinkhole

sinkhole (third-person singular simple present sinkholes, present participle sinkholing, simple past and past participle sinkholed)

sinkholes (present singular third-person)
sinkholing (participle present)
sinkholed (participle past)
sinkholed (past)

(Internet, transitive) To configure as a sinkhole (domain name server that gives non-routeable addresses).


pooper

Alternative form: Pooper

For whatever reason – the terrible animation or the absurd dialogue, most likely – these cutscenes are popular among poopers.

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

Many who disregard the medium are oblivious to the absurd amount of effort that some Poopers put into their projects.

2019 March 20, Luke Dormehl, “YouTube Poop is punk rock for the internet age, and you probably don’t get it”, in Digital Trends:

But each individual YTP features something different, and different YTP creators (often called "poopers") use their own styles.

2021 August 15, Ben Stegner, “What Is YouTube Poop?”, in Make Use Of:


snip

snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)

snips (present singular third-person)
snipping (participle present)
snipped (participle past)
snipped (past)

From Dutch snippen (“to snip; shred”) or Low German snippen (“to snip; shred”), of imitative origin. Compare snap.

onomatopoeic

imitative

The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores […] but I snipt […]some of it for my own share.

1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC:

(Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.


COIN-OR

Operations Research
operations research#English

(Internet) Acronym of Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research.


electronica

(Internet) The data trail of an individual on the public internet.


crawler

From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er.

suf

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

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

These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.

2011, James Pearce, Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal, page 466:

(Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.


ihn

(Internet, text messaging) Initialism of I hope not.


IOW

(Internet) Initialism of in other words.


Yahoo!

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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the name itself is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, incorporated 1995. However, other sources claim the main inspiration by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo originates from Yahoo, the race of barbaric beings from the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (perhaps with a semantic notion of strongly exploring the then-"wild" late 90s Internet), thence the acronym apparently being a backronym. Also compare Etymology 2 of yahoo; the exclamation point was supposedly added to "strengthen" the trademark.

(Internet, trademark) A web portal and search engine located at yahoo.com.

David Filo
Encyclopedia Britannica
Gulliver's Travels
Jerry Yang
Jonathan Swift
Yahoo!


marquee

From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”).

(Internet) A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.

Lauftext

a banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally


Internet Protocol
Internet Protocol#English

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Protocol version 6, a successor to IPv4 allowing for a much larger number of possible IP addresses.


RT

en-noun

RT (countable and uncountable, plural RTs)


CSP

CSP (countable and uncountable, plural CSPs)

(Internet) Abbreviation of content security policy.


referrer

(Internet) The URL from which a user agent was referred to another URL.


AWB

(wiki jargon, Wikimedia jargon) AutoWikiBrowser.


infobox

Roughly every third Wikipedia article contains an infobox – a table that displays important facts about the subject

2010, Dustin Lange, Felix Naumann, Extracting structured information from Wikipedia articles to populate infoboxes:

(wiki jargon) A consistently-formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject.


moderator

/ˈmɒdəˌɹeɪtə(ɹ)/

Learned borrowing from Latin moderātor. First attested as Middle English moderatour.

(Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.

مُشْرِف

(Internet) a person who enforces the rules of a forum


guest book

(Internet) a feature of a website performing a similar function to a physical guest book

návštěvní kniha

website feature functioning like a physical guest book


UTM

UTM (countable and uncountable, plural UTMs)

Urchin Tracking Module
w:Urchin Tracking Module

(Internet) Initialism of Urchin Tracking Module.


hostname

fully qualified hostname
fully qualified hostname

(computing, Internet) A computer or other network device's Internet domain name; a fully qualified hostname.

unqualified hostname
unqualified hostname

(computing, Internet) The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period; an unqualified hostname.


Discordian

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Discordian.

(Internet, informal) A user of the Discord chat program.


FTL

(Internet, slang) Initialism of for the loss.

(Internet, slang) Initialism of for the lulz.


div

Coordinate term: section break

(web design) A section of a web page, or the div element that represents it in HTML code.


shock site

A website intended to offend or shock, containing frightening and/or distasteful content of a pornographic, scatological, or grotesquely violent nature. In most cases, it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or image galleries.


JavaScript

From Java (“a programming language”) + script, although the language is not closely related to Java and was originally to be called LiveScript.

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A scripting programming language most commonly used to add interactive features to webpages.


Googler

Partly Google + -er (occupational suffix), partly + -er (agent noun suffix).

Over at Google, a company known to have pioneered the modern tech workplace, one designer complained of spending 40 percent of their time on “the inefficien[cy] overhead of simply working at Google.” Some report spending all day on tasks as simple as changing the color of a website button. Working the bare minimum while waiting for stock to vest is so common that Googlers call it “resting and vesting.”

2023 November 28, JS Tan, “It's All Bullshit”, in The Baffler:

A full-time Google corporation employee.

Of course, the more committed Googlers in this class probably already knew the deal between Howard and the celebrity Kipps.

2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 156:

A regular or habitual user of the Google search engine.

A device used to regularly access the Google search engine.


IAQ

IAQ (countable and uncountable, plural IAQs)

(Internet, humorous) Initialism of infrequently asked question, one that does not merit inclusion in a FAQ.


inclusionist

en-adj

inclusionist (comparative more inclusionist, superlative most inclusionist)

more inclusionist (comparative)
most inclusionist (superlative)

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Regardless, the inclusionist view that all processes are supposed to operate case by case rather than determining whether broad topic areas should be included continues to prevail, though this view is subject to great debate, especially in areas of popular culture.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, page 350:

Recent controversies between the so-called “deletionist” and “inclusionist” Wikipedians, as well as the brief brouhaha around the introduction of flagged and patrolled edits, commplicate Anderson's model a bit, of course, but the focus remains on the evaluation of content rather than contributors.

2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy:

If the deletionist philosophy prevails, as I suspect it will, the inclusionist Wikipedia will be lost forever.

2016, Nicholas Carr, Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations:

(Wikimedia jargon) Favoring the inclusion of articles rather than their deletion.


inclusionist

Coordinate term: mergist

But the proliferation of rules, and the fact that select Wikipedians have learnt how to handle them to win arguments, now represents a danger, says Andrew Lih, a former deletionist who is now an inclusionist, and who is writing a book about Wikipedia.

In September 2007, Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia's panjandrum — himself an inclusionist who believes that if people want an article about every Pokemon character, then hey, let it happen — posted a one-sentence stub about Mzoli's […]

2012, Nicholson Baker, The Way the World Works, page 204:

The deepest philosophical divide among Wikipedians is between the inclusionists (editors believing that Wikipedia, as a digital resource, should not be limited by traditional encyclopedia constraints and should cover as wide an array of topics as possible) and the exclusionists (editors believing that Wikipedia should apply criteria about the notability of described phenomena as strictly as any other encyclopedia and that the virtue of sensible exclusion increases the project's quality).

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 23:

(Wikimedia jargon) A wiki user who favors the inclusion of articles rather than their deletion.


gripesite

(Internet, rare, informal) A website aimed at making consumers more aware of deficient goods and services.


threadjacking

(Internet) The act of taking over an e-mail list or discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.


streaming

en-noun

streaming (usually uncountable, plural streamings)

→ French: streaming

→ German: Streaming

→ Japanese: ストリーミング (sutorīmingu)

→ Korean: 스트리밍 (seuteuriming)

→ Portuguese: streaming

→ Spanish: streaming

From Middle English stremynge, equivalent to stream + -ing.


timed text

(multimedia, Internet) The presentation of text information, such as subtitles, synchronized to audio or video.


JSON

(computer languages, file format) Initialism of JavaScript Object Notation, a data format used to represent structured data. It is based on JavaScript syntax.


CAPTCHA

Coined by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000 as a loose acronym of “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”.

CAPTCHA puzzles are intended to be easy for a human to solve but difficult for a computer. Because of the monetary value to spammers of circumventing these controls, an arms race has occurred in which typical CAPTCHA puzzles have […]

2011, Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto, The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

A CAPTCHA is a quick check to make sure that an actual person, rather than a computer program, is using the website. Web applications use CAPTCHA […]

2014, Laura Fitton, Anum Hussain, Brittany Leaning, Twitter For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 24:

(computing, Internet) A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that they are a human and not a computer program.


ICF

Initialism of Internet connection firewall.


MRA

(Internet) Initialism of mail retrieval agent.


verified

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(Internet slang) A user of the Twitter microblogging service whose identity has been confirmed by Twitter.


DSN

(Internet) Initialism of digital subscriber network.


troll-friendly

en-adj

troll-friendly (comparative more troll-friendly, superlative most troll-friendly)

more troll-friendly (comparative)
most troll-friendly (superlative)

(slang, Internet, of an Internet community) Not taking any steps to combat trolling.


newsgroup

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Some of the users are 'old timers'; they have been around in the newsgroup for several years[…]

2003, Sven Junghagen, Henrik C. J. Linderoth, Intelligent Management in the Knowledge Economy:

A repository on a computer network where people can post messages, usually about a single subject.

新聞組 /新闻组

repository for posting messages on a computer network


peering

The BT UK service uses a combination of private peerings and bilateral peerings at the UK exchange points in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.

2001, Peter Willis, Carrier-Scale IP Networks:

(Internet) The act of carrying communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment.


Web service

(Internet, Web) A software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

webservice

software designed to support interaction over a network


site map

From site (shortening of website) + map.

A webpage that lists the contents and shows the structure of a website, to aid in navigation.

خريطَة الموقع

webpage that lists the contents of a website


popover

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(Internet) A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page rather than opening a new tab or window.


identifier

authenticator

an identifier asserts identity; an authenticator verifies it

(HTML) A code that distinguishes a particular element from all other elements in a document.


deop

en-verb

deop (third-person singular simple present deops, present participle deopping, simple past and past participle deopped)

deops (present singular third-person)
deopping (participle present)
deopped (participle past)
deopped (past)

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

1999, Cory McWilliams, “IRC Oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To demote (an IRC operator) from operator status.


soz

Rhotacism of sorry; sorry + -z. Documented since at least 1987.

I'd like to apologise, unreservedly, to pigs everywhere, but especially those on my farm […] So Hermes pig collars all round to my herd and soz soz soz.

1996 September 1, “Dear Annie: Ready to wear”, in Independent on Sunday:

I'm soz about what happened.

1999, “Love Comes to Royston Vasey”, in The League of Gentlemen, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Henry Portrait and Ally Welles:

Soz Mike, I thought you were showing me a fool proof way of going xna

2001, Jocyber, “Morning'”, in alt.fan.scarecrow (Usenet):

Soz for bringing it up again, but it is good to have a healthy attitude towards this..!!!!

2002, *Patrick-Blue*, “Soz I Missed This (look) ??”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet):

U2 says soz for online snafu [title]

2005 February 7, John Oates, “U2 says soz for online snafu”, in The Register:

Does it auto update when the disc is inserted or will i^([sic]) get the option to ignore the update?¶ Or do i^([sic]) just DL pal games to be on the safe side?¶ Soz for all the questions but wanna make sure I get it right

2007, >{daZza}<, “Wii info”, in alt.warez.uk (Usenet):

(slang, chiefly UK or Internet) Synonym of sorry


second-level domain

en-noun

second-level domain (plural second-level domains)

Wiktionary.org is a second-level domain, part of the org top-level domain.

(computing, Internet) A domain that is immediately subordinate to a top-level domain (whose name appears after it, with a period separating the two).


Domain Name System

BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
The purpose of this document is to explain the installation and upkeep of the BIND software package, and we begin by reviewing the fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS) as they relate to BIND. ... The Domain Name System (DNS) is the hierarchical, distributed database. It stores information for mapping Internet host names to IP addresses and vice versa, mail routing information, and other data used by Internet applications.

(computing, Internet) The distributed database, sometimes including all the supporting hardware or software infrastructure, the Internet uses to translate hostnames into IP addresses and provide other domain-related information.


unqualified hostname

unqualified hostname (plural unqualified hostnames)

(computing, Internet) The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period, and so is enough to uniquely identify the computer within a domain.


Transmission Control Protocol

(computing, Internet) A networking protocol, almost always layered on top of the Internet Protocol, that provides reliable, connection based communications.


fully qualified hostname

fully qualified hostname (plural fully qualified hostnames)

(computing, Internet) An Internet domain name that identifies a computer.


domain name service

domain name service (plural domain name services)

(computing, Internet) A service provided by the Domain Name System, allowing domain names to be resolved to IP addresses.


domain name server

domain name server (plural domain name servers)

(computing, Internet) A computer that provides domain name information to a network; a computer that is part of the Domain Name System.


Internet address

Internet address (plural Internet addresses)

(computing, Internet) Any address used to identify a place or resource on the Internet, such as a URL, an IP address, or a domain name.

網際網路位址 /网际网路位址

any address used to identify a place or resource on the Internet


port forwarding

(computing, Internet) The forwarding of a network port from one device to another; especially, such forwarding when done to provide an external user with access to a port on a private IP address.


servent

Blend of server + client. Introduced by the Gnutella network technology.

(Internet) A peer-to-peer network node which has the functionality of both server and client.


ure

(informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you're (you are).


LAMP

(Internet) Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Python/Perl: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server


top-level

(Internet) Applied to domains at the highest level, such as .uk covering all sites for the United Kingdom.


fremd

From Middle English fremde, fremede (“strange, foreign”), from Old English fremde, fremede, fremeþe (“foreign, strange”), from Proto-Germanic *framaþiz (“foreign, not one's own”). Cognate with Scots fremmit, frempt (“fremd”), West Frisian frjemd (“strange, fremd”), Dutch vreemd (“strange, foreign”), German fremd (“fremd, strange, foreign”), Swedish främmande (“foreign, outlandish, strange”). More at from.

cog

(childish, Internet) Humorous metathesis of "friend".


referer

/ɹəˈfɜːɹə(ɹ)/

The Referer field must not be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard.

1996, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0:

If a referring URL was specified, for each valid referer, make sure that a valid referring URL was passed to FormMail

2001, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 278:

The referer portion of a logfile line contains the full URL of the page or object visited before the current one.

2007, Ben Fry, Visualizing Data, page 253:

The referer information can also be accessed as document.referrer within JavaScript.

2007, Tiara Yule, The Illustrated Dictionary of Internet, page 74:

(Internet) Alternative form of referrer (“the referring URL”)


AMP

en-noun

AMP (countable and uncountable, plural AMPs)

That strict nature of the AMP HTML means that attention to detail is necessary. The pages must be properly validated in order to function every time — and in order to amp up your place in Google's rankings, your AMP site must function every time.

2019, Richard Conway, How to Get to the Top of Google Search: A Practical SEO Guide, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:

accelerated mobile page
accelerated mobile page#English

(Internet) Initialism of accelerated mobile page.


XFF

(Internet) Initialism of X-Forwarded-For: an HTTP header indicating that a message or request was forwarded by a proxy.


MOTD

When I connected to the IRC server, the MOTD included an apology for the recent downtime.

(Internet) Initialism of message of the day.


blip

Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1

When a participant has full access permissions to a wave, he or she can change the contents of all blips and reply within or after blips.

2010, Gina Trapani, Adam Pash, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, page 51:

Although the wiki-like editing capabilities of Google Wave represent a valuable feature, there is some debate about whether participants should edit other participants' blips or their own blips.

2010, Andres Ferrate, Google Wave: Up and Running, page 87:

(Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.


link whore

(slang, Internet, derogatory) Someone who goes to great lengths to get other people to link to his/her website or blog.


rotator

(Internet) A banner ad that cycles through multiple advertisements.


Tips should always be welcome if given in a constructive way, saying "L2P noob your way of casting sucks" is NOT a tip.

2007, Shammy, “An angry player”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):

(Internet, derogatory) Initialism of learn to play; used in Internet games as a slur against weak or inexperienced players.


threaded

en-adj

threaded (comparative more threaded, superlative most threaded)

more threaded (comparative)
most threaded (superlative)

a threaded discussion forum

(Internet, not comparable) Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.


planking

en-noun

planking (countable and uncountable, plural plankings)

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[…] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]

2020, Harmony Bench, Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common:

The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.


SEM

SEM (countable and uncountable, plural SEMs)

(SEO) Initialism of search engine marketing.


transclude

en-verb

transclude (third-person singular simple present transcludes, present participle transcluding, simple past and past participle transcluded)

transcludes (present singular third-person)
transcluding (participle present)
transcluded (participle past)
transcluded (past)

Transcopyright, Permission to Transclude Publicly.

1999 December, Ted Nelson, “Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More than Ever: Parallel Documents, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning, and Deep Re-Use”, in ACM Computing Surveys, volume 31, number 4es, →DOI:

Finally, at the very bottom of the edit window is a list of transcluded pages—generally, but not always, these are templates (page 17).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 424:

That exception is the HTML <IMG> tag–which transcludes an image into the context of the document. The image itself is neither embedded within the document nor copied—it is transcluded.

2012, Julie A. Jacko, editor, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, 3rd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 571:

(programming) To substitute a template or other input for its rendered text, such as when parsing wikitext. To include by transclusion. To process fetched data in-line.


spamming

en-noun

spamming (countable and uncountable, plural spammings)

Any reply perversely tells the spammer that you're a "live one" and that your e-mail address should be kept active for future spammings.

2005, Joel Dubin, The Little Black Book of Computer Security, page 53:

(Internet) The act of sending unwanted electronic mail.

hītinitanga

The sending of mass, and generally unwanted, electronic mail


portal site

(Internet) A website with various features and content of its own, but also with many links to other sites, its aim being that users would make it their home page.


web bug

When a Web bug is programmed into a Web page, its code looks similar to the code for just about any graphic image appearing on that page.

2002, John R. Levine, Ray Everett-Church, Greg Stebben, Internet Privacy For Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN:

Google had a web bug on 92 of the top 100 sites, and on 88 per cent of the total domains reported in the data set of almost 400,000 unique domains.

2011, Andrew McStay, The Mood of Information: A Critique of Online Behavioural Advertising, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

(Internet, marketing) A small, usually transparent image added by an advertiser to a webpage (to track its popularity) or email message (to track when it is read).


lightbox

From light + box. In the Internet sense, originally the name of one specific technique.

(Internet) A kind of pop-up that is overlaid across a web page while the rest of the content is dimmed.


subpage

(Internet) A web page that is subordinate to another.

subpàgina

a web page that is subordinate to another


ident

[…] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.

2004, Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime:

(Internet) A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.


bounce back

en-verb

bounce back (third-person singular simple present bounces back, present participle bouncing back, simple past and past participle bounced back)

bounces back (present singular third-person)
bouncing back (participle present)
bounced back (participle past)
bounced back (past)

(Internet, intransitive) Of an email message, to be returned to the sender because it is undeliverable.


AIM

(Internet, historical, 1997–2017) Initialism of AOL Instant Messenger.


gTLD

generic top-level domain
generic top-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of generic top-level domain.


vortal

The service is a vortal, which aims to assist SMEs involved in engineering or manufacturing in the East Midlands area around Nottingham. The project builds on the concept of a human-organised regional gateway of information but also incorporates the ideas behind a vortal.

2000, Brian Stanford-Smith, Paul T. Kidd, E-business: Key Issues, Applications and Technologies, page 302:

(Internet) A vertical portal; an online resource acting as an entry point for information for a single specific market or subject.


Web 2.0

Web and a version number (as used in software). Coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999.

The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop.

1999, Darcy DiNucci, “Fragmented Future”, in Print, volume 53, number 4, →ISSN, page 220:

Web 2.0 was the logical consequence of the Internet going mainstream, weaving itself into everyday life and presenting new opportunities as millions of people rushed online.

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

(Internet) The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content, social networking, and online collaboration.


internal link

(Internet) A hyperlink that links to a target on the same website (that is, within the same domain); it may be either an interpage link or an intrapage link.


external link

(Internet) A hyperlink that links to another website in a different domain.


necropost

necropost (third-person singular simple present necroposts, present participle necroposting, simple past and past participle necroposted)

necroposts (present singular third-person)
necroposting (participle present)
necroposted (participle past)
necroposted (past)

Much like your power of necroposting a thread long considered dead.

2003 January 5, Louis M. Brown, “Usenet”, in alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise (Usenet):

After being away from Usenet for a few days (apologies for the necroposting), I had some time to think about this.

2005 February 23, Chris Hafner, “Usenet”, in alt.sports.football.pro.sea-seahawks (Usenet):

I'm a moderator at a realiiity TV forum and necroposting is tolerated there so long as it isn't a sore topic that the mods hoped people would ignore

2005 June 6, Richard V. Lamb, “Usenet”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(Internet, slang, transitive, intransitive) To post to a long, inactive discussion thread on a forum.


definition list

en-noun

definition list (plural definition lists)

An HTML structure consisting of a number of tags intended to present a set of pairs of terms and their definitions as a list.


*nix

Apparently from the wildcard *, indicating any sequence of characters, and Unix and Linux.

Linux, Mac OS X, AIX, Solaris, and DG/UX are examples of *nixes.

(computing, Internet) Unix and various other similar and/or compatible operating systems.


WAMP

(Internet software) Initialism of Windows, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Perl/Python — a popular solution stack for use as a web server.


DYK

DYK that Ricky Ledee, son of the Sonora Poncena singer Tonito Ledee, who died in an automobile accident, is a promising baseball player in the New York Yankee top minor league team, Columbus?

1997, FFigue3292, “Did you know?”, in rec.music.afro-latin (Usenet):

(Internet, text messaging) Initialism of did you know?


mashup

From mash (“to convert into a mash; to mix thoroughly”) + up.

This app is a mashup mixing news from the BBC and maps from Google.

(informal) Something consisting of two or more elements combined together.

(Internet) A Web application that combines data and/or functionality from more than one source.


e-learning

Learning conducted via electronic media, especially via the Internet.


weblogging

(computing) The design and editing of a weblog; blogging


cybersquatter

(Internet) A person who participates in cybersquatting.


orbiting

(slang, neologism, Internet, social media) The act or practice of ceasing communication with another person, but continuing to follow them or interact with them on social media.


blogging

(computing) The design and editing of a blog; weblogging.


webliography

Currently, there is no standard and specific format for developing a webliography. Some existing webliographies simply include a number of Web links that appear as “patchworks.”

2008, Lawrence A. Tomei, Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 959:

(The O.E.D. might have gone overboard by including a couple of iffy web-words: webliography, for a Web-based bibliography, and webmeister, a silly alternative to webmaster.)

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

A list of electronic documents or websites that relate to a particular subject, especially one used in a scholarly work.