cybersquatting

Maybe a little broad in your interpretation? Dilution would not have existed in this case if Toeppen were not in the "business" of cybersquatting? The statute does not allow noncommercial use to "dilute", but when a domain name owner suggests money may be taken for the domain name, a problem is created for the DNO, right? This may be a large trap for attorneys advising in this area.

1996, Jeff Kuester, “re: They want to take scooby.com away!”, in misc.int-property (Usenet):

(Internet) The registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date.

kiberskvottinq

registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet domain name in the hope of selling it later

The day after the issuance of the interlocutory injunction he was interviewed by a StarPhoenix reporter as part of a larger article on "Cybersquatting" as the domain name game has come to be called.

2003, D'Anne Davis, Maria Koroneos, “Property” (chapter VIII), in Business Law in Canada Casebok, 4th edition, Toronto, Canada: Prentice Hall (Pearson), →ISBN, Passing Off (section 3), page 211:

(Internet) A form of passing off, often with the intent referred to in the first sense above.


UTSL

A pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in Star Wars.

(Internet) Initialism of use the source, Luke.


cybershop

(Internet) A website that allows users to browse and then order products or services via the Internet.


cybercafé

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The notion of a cybercafe—a place for Net surfers to socialize on a tide of gourmet coffee—is at odds with how most people want to use computers, even in their leisure time.

1998 April 16, Michel Marriott, “The Sad Ballad Of the Cybercafe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Most recently, the rattiest old cybercafes in Queens have been shut down, following too-frequent fights among hotheaded video-game patrons. And the once-glamorous @Cafe in Manhattan was already boarded up by 1998!

2008 November 7, Virginia Heffernan, “The Cybercafe Lives”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(dated) A café in which customers may access the Internet, play video games etc.


-sky

Clipping of Bluesky. Compare -blr, -Tok, and -Tube.

(Internet slang) Combined with a noun or adjective for a specific community of users or a genre of posts on the social media platform Bluesky.


static site

Typical examples of static sites include small-business web sites that serve as online brochures.

(Internet) A website that does not make use of server-side scripting or coding to display information, and thus has no interactivity beyond the user's choice of hyperlink to follow.


WYCIWYG

(Internet, acronym) What you cache is what you get: A URI scheme specific to the Mozilla family of web browsers which indicates that a link should be preferentially fetched from cache instead of from the web server.


dead link

(Internet) An HTML hypertext link that points to a webpage or website that is permanently unavailable.

dødt link

hypertext link that points to a webpage that is permanently unavailable


HTTPd

(Internet) Initialism of HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon (a Unix web server that is able to handle HTTP and HTTPS requests.)


ARIN

w:American Registry for Internet Numbers

(Internet) Acronym of American Registry for Internet Numbers.


bookmarklet

(computing, Internet) A small piece of JavaScript code stored as a URL within a bookmark.


CDN

A CDN can also help absorb spikes in traffic, for example, during times of peak weather or financial news, or during popular sporting or entertainment events.

2007, Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 20:

content delivery/distribution network
w:content delivery network

(Internet) Initialism of content delivery/distribution network.


demonetize

en-verb

demonetize (third-person singular simple present demonetizes, present participle demonetizing, simple past and past participle demonetized)

demonetizes (present singular third-person)
demonetizing (participle present)
demonetized (participle past)
demonetized (past)

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The site has the ability to demonetize a video.

Other high-profile YouTube stars including Logan Paul, Shane Dawson and David Dobrik have had their channels demonetized after controversies in the media. Many demonetized creators still run highly profitable businesses.

2021 April 21, Taylor Lorenz, Valeriya Safronova, “Why James Charles Has Been Demonetized by YouTube”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet, transitive) To demote (published content, or its creator) so that it is no longer eligible to earn money for its publisher.

poistaa kaupallistaminen käytöstä

internet: to demote so that it is no longer eligible to earn money


wikilink

/ˌwɪkɪˈlɪŋk/

Go through the article and create internal links (wikilinks) that point to other articles (this is part of what is called wikification).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: the missing manual, page 75:

Adding too many wikilinks (overlinking) is usually caused by novice over-enthusiasm

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia works: and how you can be a part of it, page 151:

Veterans avoid the excessive use of wiki-compounding as it is considered "unencyclopedic" and cliche. However, it is tolerated when it refers to technical terms (eg, wikilinks), when it is an existing subject

2009, Charley Rowe, Eva Lia Wyss, Language and new media: linguistic, cultural, and technological evolutions, page 342:

(wiki jargon) A hyperlink from one wiki entry to another.


hoisting

(programming) The behaviour of JavaScript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.


friending

en-noun

friending (usually uncountable, plural friendings)

Refreshments followed, coupled with teary farewells and exchanges of phone numbers and emails, and Facebook friendings.

2015, John Ellsworth, Unspeakable Prayers:

(Internet) An act of adding a person as a friend on a social network.


disemvowel

en-verb

disemvowel (third-person singular simple present disemvowels, present participle disemvowelling or disemvoweling, simple past and past participle disemvowelled or disemvoweled)

disemvowels (present singular third-person)
disemvowelling (participle present)
disemvoweling (participle present)
disemvowelled (participle past)
disemvowelled (past)
disemvoweled (participle past)
disemvoweled (past)

By the way, what has become of the conspiracy of Brander Matthews et als to disemvowel the English language? Not that it matters.

1906 September 5, Puck, volume 60, number 1540, New York, N.Y.: Puck Pub. Co., →OCLC:

The trick will be in usurping as many vowels as you can, thus disemvoweling the others, and the one with the most words when all or as many letters as possible are used up wins.

1930, Judge, volume 98, New York, N.Y.: The Judge Publishing Co., →OCLC, page xlix, column 2:

"What happened?" the Amigoid asked. / "D'nt knw," she said. "Jst wk p nd hrd y tw tlkng n thn, sddnly nd wtht wrnng, thr ws ths ns." / "What?" Robotech_Master asked. / "I think I know what happened," Lawrence said. "It must be part of the Silliness that's infecting the Author's Altiverse." / "S wht hppnd? / "You've been disemvoweled," the Amigoid informed her.

1995 October 28, strange days indeed [username], “AA: is that a nerfsword in your pocket, or …”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.91.951028150058.20293A-100000@sojourn1.sojourn.com>:

Edna [Dame Edna Everage] reveals that she will always outmuscle [Barry] Humphries, disemvowelling his name to reduce it to the interjection "Hmmph!"

2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, “Autobiography as Mockery, or Barry Humphries in Mock Turtle”, in A Portrait of the Artist as Australia: L’Œuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries, Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 181:

Another swearing-curtailing device is to allow the taboo word but disenvowel it, so that fuck and cunt become "f-ck" and "c-nt."

2005, Ruth Wajnryb, “Bootleggers and Asterisks”, in Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, page 187:

If someone you've disemvowelled comes back and behaves, forgive and forget their earlier gaffes. You're acting in the service of civility, not abstract justice.

2006 December, Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong, “Community Conference”, in The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites, 2nd edition, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 145:

Back to our Internet trolling behavior, some comment board moderators have tried to control trolling by "disemvoweling," removing all the vowels from the offending comments of trolls. This punishing practice makes troll comments easier to detect and harder to read, and therefore, less likely to generate the kind of outraged response a troll finds rewarding. Disemvoweling punishes the troll and effectively has decreased the numbers of offensive comments and hijacked comment threads on many message boards.

2011, Ronald Comer, Elizabeth Gould, Psychology Around Us, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 16:

Write a program that removes all vowels from a file ("disemvowels"). For example, Once upon a time! becomes nc pn tm!. Surprisingly often, the result is still readable; try it on your friends.

2014, Bjarne Stroustrup, Programming Principles and Practice using C++, 2nd edition, Upper Sadde River, N.J.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 408:

(transitive, sometimes humorous) To remove the vowels from, for example, for the purpose of expurgating offensive words.


content filtering

(Internet) Web filtering, content-control software or spam-blocking solutions.


mail bomb

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

(computing) A large number of e-mails sent to one destination, or an e-mail with a very large attachment, as a denial-of-service attack.


web beacon

The sole purpose of putting a Web beacon in a page is to cause a secondary transaction in order to set third-party cookies.

2005, Craig D. Knuckles, David S. Yuen, Web Applications: Concepts & Real World Design, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 363:

A web beacon is a small graphic image that is usually transparent (and therefore invisible to the user) and no larger than one pixel by one pixel that is placed on a website or in an email.

2012, Lori Andrews, I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 23:


GIYF

Google is your friend
Google is your friend#English

(Internet slang, initialism, abbreviation, text messaging) Initialism of Google is your friend.

ggrks

ググれカス, gugure kasu, "Google it, you trash"


inline

Bold and italic tags are inline elements.

(web design, Cascading Style Sheets) An element that occurs within the flow of the text.


WMF

“WMF has operated in the past without staffing and with very minimal staffing, so clearly it’s _possible_^([sic]) to host a high traffic website on an absolute shoestring,” acknowledged the Foundation’s then VP of engineering, Erik Möller, in 2013.

2022 October 12, Andrew Orlowski, “The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it”, in UnHerd:

Wikimedia Foundation
w:Wikimedia Foundation

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Wikimedia Foundation.


memorialize

memorialize (third-person singular simple present memorializes, present participle memorializing, simple past and past participle memorialized)

tlb

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

memorializes (present singular third-person)
memorializing (participle present)
memorialized (participle past)
memorialized (past)

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Facebook says people with memorialized accounts do not appear in advertisements or birthday reminders on the site and are also excluded from the People You May Know list of friend suggestions.

2015 May 20, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Unlike You, Your Facebook Account Can Be Immortal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, social media) To convert (someone’s profile) into a memorial site/page (e.g. on Facebook).

emlékoldallá alakít

to convert (a profile) into a memorial site/page


message board

(computing, Internet) A system by which users may send, read and reply to public messages; an electronic bulletin board or forum.


Internet forum

en-noun

Internet forum (plural Internet forums or Internet fora)

Internet forums (plural)
Internet fora (plural)

(Internet) A system in which users may send, read and reply to messages on a particular subject.


notability

notability (countable and uncountable, plural notabilities)

From notable + -ity; alternatively, may be analyzed as note + -ability.

(uncountable, wiki jargon) A standard used to determine whether a subject merits its own article.


nutpick

en-verb

nutpick (third-person singular simple present nutpicks, present participle nutpicking, simple past and past participle nutpicked)

nutpicks (present singular third-person)
nutpicking (participle present)
nutpicked (participle past)
nutpicked (past)

Blend of nut + nitpick; see nut (“crazy person”). Coined by a commenter in 2006 and popularized by Kevin Drum.

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Nutpicking has gotten easy over the last few years–just check out the Twitter feeds of Teanderthal Members of Congress.

2014 January 29, mistermix, “Notes from Last Night’s Putsch”, in Balloon Juice:

The blog-era term "nutpicking", which refers to cherry-picking the worst or nuttiest comments to disparage a larger group ("liberals", "conservatives", "feminists") by falsely implying the views are widely-held within the group, needs to be revived. It's very common on Twitter.

If there’s a right-wing analog to the Media Matters machine, it often comes in the ongoing effort to “nutpick” radical professors, highlight their most ridiculous (and often years-old) comments, and try to drive them out of their jobs.

2019 March 18, David French, “There’s a Fake Outrage Machine on the Right, Also”, in National Review:

(Internet) To cherry-pick poor representatives of a viewpoint (i.e., from Internet postings) in order to disparage it.


peaty

en-adj

peaty (comparative peatier, superlative peatiest)

peatier (comparative)
peatiest (superlative)

From peat + -y.
Slang sense attested circa late 2010s at earliest, often apparently mildly tongue-in-cheek.

(neologism, Internet slang, sometimes humorous) Related to the dietary advice, research and data of Dr. Ray Peat (especially foods with high natural sugar content and lack of refined seed oils, or activities and habits claimed to boost metabolism, lifespan, inter alia).


inbox

→ German: Inbox

Your goal with the remaining emails is to take care of them and remove them from your inbox as soon as possible.

2014, Bonnie Hillman Shay, Take Charge of Your Email Inbox, page 35:

(computing) An electronic folder serving the same purpose, but for electronic files, especially email.


unread

You will have fewer 'Unreads' staring at you from your Inbox, and will feel—and be—more productive.

2011, Hugh D. Culver, Give Me a Break: The Art of Making Time Work for You, page 129:

I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.

(computing) An unread email or instant message.


oekaki

Borrowed from Japanese お絵かき (o-ekaki), a diminutive word for "drawing."

(Internet) A drawing-based message board system, sometimes allowing users to replay a stroke-by-stroke animation of the picture being drawn.


seeder

(Internet, file sharing) A person connected to a peer-to-peer network who has a complete or partial copy of a given file and makes it available for downloading.


deadlink

en-verb

deadlink (third-person singular simple present deadlinks, present participle deadlinking, simple past and past participle deadlinked)

deadlinks (present singular third-person)
deadlinking (participle present)
deadlinked (participle past)
deadlinked (past)

(Internet) To cause an exiting hypertext link to no longer function properly, or to add a link incorrectly.


brand avatar

(marketing, Internet) A company's online brand personality, which is an online overview of the feedback of the organization and its brands.


key set identifier

en-noun

key set identifier (plural key set identifiers)

(computing, Internet) A value that is used to identify a key set.


newsfroup

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Likely originally a typographical error for newsgroup.


presentity

Blend of presence + entity; first introduced in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETC) RFC 2778.

Users of an instant messaging service are presentities that may show themselves as online, offline, or away.

(Internet, telecommunications) An entity (usually a human) which provides information about its presence (whether it is available and willing to communicate through communication services).


OOP

OOP (countable and uncountable, plural OOPs)

Everyone here is mocking OOP, but I think he has a point.

(Internet) Initialism of original original poster (“the poster of quoted material”).


OP

OP (countable and uncountable, plural OPs)

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

(Internet) Initialism of original poster; the person who started a thread.

จขกท

jɔɔ-kɔ̌ɔ-gɔɔ-tɔɔ


OP

(Internet, music) Initialism of overplayed.


redirection

redirection (countable and uncountable, plural redirections)

/ɹiːdəˈɹɛkʃən/

/ɹiːdɪˈɹɛkʃən/

/ɹiːdaɪˈɹɛkʃən/

(Internet) The automated process of taking a user to a location other than the one selected.


wikification

wikification (usually uncountable, plural wikifications)

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Given a text or hypertext document, we define “text wikification” as the task of automatically extracting the most important words and phrases in the document (keywords), and identifying for each such keyword the appropriate link to a Wikipedia article with detailed explanatory information about the corresponding keyphrase. ¶ Text wikification is performed in two steps. […]

2007, Andras Csomai, Rada Mihalcea, “Linking Educational Materials to Encyclopedic Knowledge”, in Rosemary Luckin et al., editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 558:

This task will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles – as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. […] Wikification is a useful process in itself, […]

2009, Ian H. Witten, abstract of the presentation “Semantic Document Processing Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base”, in Shlomo Geva et al. (editors), Focused Retrieval and Evaluation (INEX 2009 workshop proceedings), Springer (2010), page 3

3 Query Wikification
The process of automatically recognizing the topics mentioned in an unstructured text and linking them to the appropriate Wikipedia [6] articles is known as wikification. Two Wikification method[s] have been proposed by now.

2009–10, Amir Hossein Jadidinejad, Fariborz Mahmoudi, Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Meta-language Index Construction and Structural Queries, in Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I, page 73

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The automated process of adding links to Wikipedia (or another wiki) to specific words and phrases in an arbitrary text (e.g. a news article).


cushioning

cushioning (countable and uncountable, plural cushionings)

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(slang, neologism, social media) The act or practice of someone entertaining other potential romantic options while the person is in a committed relationship.


breadcrumbing

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(neologism, Internet, social media) The act or practice of pretending to be interested in pursuing or developing a sincere relationship with other users, while actually having no such interest.


XYZ

(web design, cartography) Describing a URL scheme for providing map tiles, where X and Y refer to coordinates, while Z refers to zoom level.


meganiche

From mega- + niche, coined by Clay Shirky.

(Internet) A small niche on the World Wide Web that is highly specific and appeals only to a limited demographic but may still be worthwhile and successful because of the huge total number of users.


BGP

Border Gateway Protocol
w:Border Gateway Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Border Gateway Protocol.


bluey

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

(Internet slang, derogatory) An online troll who uses the blue check verification system on Twitter.


listenership

listenership (countable and uncountable, plural listenerships)

/ˈlɪsənəʃɪp/

/ˈlɪsənɚʃɪp/

From listener + -ship (suffix denoting a property or state of being).

suffix

While Soviet jamming is intense, particularly in the vicinity of Moscow, we have evidence that "Voice [of America]" programs can be heard in areas 25 miles from Moscow and that there are listeners in numerous cities throughout the Soviet Union. Listenership in the satellites, according to refugees, is widespread.

1953 August–December, “‘Voice’ Move to Washington”, in U.S. Information Agency: First Report to Congress, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Information Agency, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

[A]n increase in VOA [Voice of America] audience size may well have been concealed by a change in recording listenership. In all, VOA tied for third in listenership among foreign stations.

1969 April 28, “Highlights”, in Foreign Radio Listening in Czechoslovakia before and during the Invasion (Research Service; E-7-69), Washington, D.C.: Office of Research and Assessment, United States Information Agency, →OCLC, page ii:

In the late sixties, as if the result of some galactic explosion, the popular idiom splintered and broke into so many components that a microscopic analysis of each is a difficult if not Herculean task. The cause of this diffusion can be traced to several sources. One was the rapid acceleration and increasing listenership to FM radio, whose alternative programming deviated from hard-rock to progressive country & western, from album cuts to singles, from lush strings to neo-jazz, and away from banal top-forty disc jockeys towards mellowed diplomats who were more influenced by orchestration than sensation.

1977, Peter E. Berry, “1969: The Tower of Babel”, in “… And the Hits Just Keep on Comin’”, Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 89:

On the other hand, listenership figures from SABC [...] indicate that Radio Metro, an English-medium music programme oriented to urban blacks has one of the highest listenerships of all stations among blacks.

1996, David Gough, “Black English in South Africa”, in Vivian de Klerk, editor, Focus on South Africa (Varieties of English around the World; G15), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, section B (Pan-ethnic Varieties), subsection 3 (English and the Media), page 56:

What people "want" to read in newspapers, see on television and in films, and listen to over the radio is made available to them by the media owners and their managers. The main objective is to make continuous efforts to increase readership/viewership/listenership so that revenue of advertisements could be attracted.

1998, Nandini Prasad, “Electronic Media and Public Service Broadcasting”, in V. S. Gupta, Rajeshwar Dyal, editors, Media and Market Forces: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of the Regional Seminars and the National Colloquium, New Delhi: [F]or AMIC; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung by Concept Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 117:

The American research confirmed the figure of 35 million as the average listenership of the station within Nigeria.

2000, Mansur Abdulkadir, “Popular Culture in Advertising: Nigerian Hausa Radio”, in Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss, editors, African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: James Currey; Harare, Zimbabwe: Baobab, →ISBN, page 128:

As long-time owners of an independent theater chain who were now in search of inexpensive, reliable content that would capture a young listenership for their fledgling radio network, [George Washington] Trendle and [John H.] Kunsky likely thought the Western was the kind of low-risk, high-reward genre KTBC was in search of.

2015, Avi Santo, “Putting on the Mask: Character Licensing before the Lone Ranger”, in Selling the Silver Bullet: The Lone Ranger and Transmedia Brand Licensing (Texas Film and Media Studies Series), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 34:

As noted earlier, Black musics including the blues have not had solely Black listenerships, or remained entirely Black practices: others have been captivated by these musics, contributed to their histories, and benefitted financially from them.

2021, Byron Dueck, “Music of Ethnic North America”, in Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl, editors, Excursions in World Music, 8th edition, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 454:

The audience that listens to a certain form or genre of audio material (specifically (Internet, radio), an audio broadcast such as a radio program or a podcast).

tigpaminaw

audience that listens to an audio broadcast


BEM

Where OOCSS and SMACSS can be seen as a more of frameworks for thinking about structured CSS combined with some handy rules of thumb, BEM is a much more rigid system for how to author and name your styles. BEM is originally an application development methodology from the search engine company Yandex.

2016, Andy Budd, Emil Björklund, CSS Mastery, Apress, →ISBN, page 387:

(web design) Initialism of block, element, modifier, a convention for authoring CSS.


address of record

en-noun

address of record (plural addresses of record)

(computing, Internet) The SIP or SIPS URI that points to a domain with a location service that can map the URI to another URI where the user might be available, frequently thought of as the "public address" of the user.


blidget

Widgetbox also gives you the tools to create your own widgets— either by turning your blog into a "blidget" that others can subscribe to or by coding something unique and adding it to the Widgetbox collection.

2007 October, Robert Strohmeyer, “The 15 Best Web Apps You've Never Heard Of”, in Maximum PC:

In particular, a "blidget" allows users to display a section of their blog on other web sites.

2008 April 30, Diana Ransom, “Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak”, in The Wall Street Journal:

Figure 9.22 on Page 235 shows the finished blidget for Social Media Power. Widgetbox blidgets like the one we just created are free, but they also offer a pro version for around $30 a year that allows you to design custom themes for you blidget, among other features.

2009, Deltina Hay, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web, Dalton Publishing, →ISBN, page 236:

(slang, Internet) In the context of blogging, a widget featuring a blog feed, which can be installed on another blog or website.


dot-com

Dot-com companies are different from the traditional 'brick and mortar' in many ways ...

2001, Banking & Finance, Academic Foundation, →ISBN, page 46:


dot-com

en-verb

dot-com (third-person singular simple present dot-coms, present participle dot-comming, simple past and past participle dot-commed)

dot-coms (present singular third-person)
dot-comming (participle present)
dot-commed (participle past)
dot-commed (past)

Check to see if your name—or any Web site name you pick—has been dot-commed yet at any of several Web sites that oversee domain-name registration, such as ...

2001, Samantha Miller, E-Mail Etiquette, →ISBN:

In July 1999, while I was dot-comming in Virginia, Governor Bush went to Indianapolis, home of Mayor Stephen Goldsmith's “Front Porch Alliance.”

2006, David Kuo, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, →ISBN:

When I landed in New York, I went straight to work—finding the refi boom accelerating at an exponential rate. In 2000, Americans had dot-commed themselves to death; in 2001, they were mortgaging themselves to death.

2010, Jordan Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, →ISBN:


piggyback

piggyback (third-person singular simple present piggybacks, present participle piggybacking, simple past and past participle piggybacked)

piggybacks (present singular third-person)
piggybacking (participle present)
piggybacked (participle past)
piggybacked (past)

A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.

(transitive, Internet) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.

(transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.


dereferer

/ˌdiːɹəˈfɜːɹə(ɹ)/

(Internet, rare) A service used for removing the URL of the referring page that referred the user to a given page, to maintain privacy.


metanavigation

(Internet) A means of navigating from one website to a related one


follow-up

(Internet) A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.

svar

Internet: posted message in reply to a previous one


leaderboard

(web design) An advertisement on a web page spanning the width of the page and shallow in height.


net-raising

Fundraising, soliciting and gathering resources through or with the use of the internet.

Conducting marketing, advocacy, community organization and other awareness or consensus-building campaigns, through the internet.


user datagram protocol

This User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is defined to make available a datagram mode of packet-switched computer communication in the environment of an interconnected set of computer networks.

1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:

(Internet) A communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.


co-citation

(Internet) The simultaneous linking to each of a group of webpages from each of another group of webpages, even though the members of the group do not link to each other; used by some search engines to establish a connection between related pages.


framer

The Los Angeles Times is also policing Web sites that frame its site without permission. As of November 1997, the Times had threatened to send cease and desist letters to unlicensed framers.

2020, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, Doing Business on the Internet: Forms and Analysis, page 116:

(Internet) A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.


UDDI

(Internet) Abbreviation of Universal Description Discovery and Integration (a platform-independent, XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet.)


ringmaster

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

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

Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring. […] People needed ringmasters because the number of sites aimed at women was exploding.

2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming:

(Internet) The person who maintains a webring.


NSPA

(Internet) Initialism of network service point address.


NSAP address

Short for network service access point address.

(Internet) An identifying label for network endpoints, used in OSI networking.


TLDNR

(Internet, slang) Alternative form of tl;dr (“too long, did not read”)


dead tree edition

en-noun

dead tree edition (plural dead tree editions)

A dysphemism, referring to the raw materials from trees used in the manufacture of paper.

dead-tree edition Derogatory cyberspeak for the paper version of a periodical....

2004, William R. Tracey, The Human Resources Glossary, page 167:

The city's major daily newspaper, the Oregonian, is losing subscribers to the dead-tree edition but has a large online following.

2011, Rachel Dresbeck, Insiders' Guide to Portland, Oregon, →ISBN, page 322:

(idiomatic, derogatory, humorous) Paper version of a publication that can be found in digital format.


throwaway

Something temporary and disposable, as:
(Internet) A burner account.

Something temporary and disposable, as:
A burner account.


huggle

en-verb

huggle (third-person singular simple present huggles, present participle huggling, simple past and past participle huggled)

huggles (present singular third-person)
huggling (participle present)
huggled (participle past)
huggled (past)

(Internet, childish) To hug and snuggle simultaneously: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.


huggle

(Internet, childish) A hug while snuggling: gesture of tender non-sexual affection.


hauler

From Middle English halere, equivalent to haul + -er. Doublet of haulier.

The majority of a haul video's content, however, is dedicated to the “haul” itself: meaning, these users' recent purchases. And an entire wing of YouTube is occupied by these videos, some with remarkably high viewership. Haulers will go through their purchased goods one-by-one, placing them near the camera so viewers can see the details in each object, and often making observations and recommendations as they go along. Within YouTube's haul discourse, there remain two […]

2016, Aaron Duplantier, Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube, McFarland, →ISBN, page 132:

(Internet) Someone who makes a haul video.


pixel tracking

(Internet) The use of code associated with a single pixel tag (invisible to the user) to monitor the activity of the user, especially his use of advertisements


portlet

(Internet) A pluggable user interface component making up part of a portal, such as a fragment displaying weather or news headlines.


bounced

(Internet) unsuccessful delivery of email


Wikipedia

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklĭos)
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits
Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)der.
New Latin encyclopaedīabor.
English encyclopediablend.
English Wikipedia
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.

etymon

In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.

Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."

(metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.


Internet

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-der.
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
English internetwork
English Internet
Coined by the U.S. Defense Department in 1986, shortening of internetwork.

coin

Not to be confused with the Josh Hutcherson Saturday Night Live sketch that's almost impossible to find online, the tragedy of Peanut, an Instagram-famous squirrel that was euthanized late last month, has sent the internet into mourning.

2024 November 4, Kate Lindsay, “Can We Please Not Politicize Peanut's Death?”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 2024-11-24:

(by extension, informal) The global community of individuals communicating via the Internet.


TL/DNR

(Internet, slang) Alternative form of tl;dr


cloud computing

(informal, computing) Computing services provided over the Internet (or "cloud"), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand.

حَوْسَبَة سَحَابِيَّة

computing services provided over the Internet


blue ribbon

Perhaps a calque of Middle French cordon bleu (“blue ribbon”), worn by knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit, or after Blue Riband, a sailing award.

cal

The icon of the blue ribbon on her site should not be taken to mean she opposes parental filtration programs.

(Internet) A badge worn or displayed to advocate freedom from online censorship.


rebirthing

en-noun

rebirthing (usually uncountable, plural rebirthings)

(Internet, paraphilia) The role-playing practice of bodily crawling into and reemerging from a simulated vagina.


nettie

From net + -ie, on the model of Trekkie.

Any nettie ever driven in Los Angeles?

1985 May 13, Andrew Vare, “L.A. Drivers”, in net.flame (Usenet):

(Internet, informal) An Internet user, particularly a Usenet user.


spearphishing

From spear + phishing, modeled on spearfishing.

(computing, Internet) Phishing against a small group of selected targets who are more likely to be attracted.


backread

en-verb

backread (third-person singular simple present backreads, present participle backreading, simple past and past participle backread)

backreads (present singular third-person)
backreading (participle present)
backread (participle past)
backread (past)

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(Internet, slang, especially in IRC) To catch up on an ongoing conversation, by reading previous portions one was not present for.


social networking

(Internet, business) The use of Internet communities to network and communicate using shared interests, related skills, or geographical location between consumers and businesses.

Should you spend too much time purchasing and installing social networking software and only have 20 percent of your alumni registered, you are wasting your time and money.

2008, Don Philabaum, Alumni Online Engagement, →ISBN, page 127:

As much as possible, avoid the following: • Installing unfamiliar software from shady sources, such as websites you've never heard of or applications posted to forums. • Installing social networking plug-ins.

2011, Hart-Davis, iMac Portable Genius, →ISBN:

The Internet provides an abundant amount of software to access Twitter broadcasts and many mobile phones contain pre-installed social networking applications on the device; however, in this study, students mainly used the Internet to view tweets.

2012, Catheryn Cheal, Transformation in Teaching: Social Media Strategies in Higher Education, →ISBN:

These Social Web Applications can be public, such as Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, SWiK, Twitter, and YouTube, or private, such as a locally-installed social networking engine Elgg.

2015, George Leal Jamil, Handbook of Research on Information Architecture and Management in Modern Organizations, →ISBN:

(Internet) Interaction with other people via a social network


drop-off

We're seeing a lot of drop-offs on the shop product pages; why aren't people making purchases?

(Internet) A visitor to a website who ceases to continue using and navigating around the site after reaching some specified page; or such an act of cessation.


spello

He also wondered why I couldn't spell properly - I had to explain the difference between a typo and a spello.

2003 October 7, Yowie, "You might be a Californian if...", rec.pets.cats.anecdotes, Usenet

It was a typo, not a spello.

2004 August 19, Some_sappy_Writer, “Missouri's Vote on Gay Marriage”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):

Anyway, I'm afraid I would decide to call "sited" in the thesis an error; not a typo or a thinko, but a spello.

2006 October 12, Bob Cunningham, “Is there a word?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

(Internet slang) A homophonic spelling mistake.


click-through

en-noun

click-through (countable and uncountable, plural click-throughs)

(Internet) The act or an instance of clicking through from one webpage to another.

(Internet, especially advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an individual responding to an ad by clicking on it.


cable modem

(Internet) A modem that provides data communication via radio frequency channels over any of a variety of cable types to establish a cable internet connection.

kabelmodem

A modem that connects a personal computer to a fibre optic cable


APIPA

(Internet) Initialism of automatic private IP addressing: a safety mechanism in dynamic host client processing to assign IP addresses within a given range when the main DHCP mechanism fails.


WPA

(Internet, Wi-Fi) Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access.


darknet

Despite all the openness of the Internet, there are still places you cannot saunter into on the Web. You must be invited. These are “darknets”: exclusive peer-to-peer networks in which membership is based on circles of trust, whose activities are veiled from the general public.

2005 October 5, Tim Gnatek, “Darknets: Virtual Parties With a Select Group of Invitees”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet) A network of computers that can only be accessed using special software, configuration, or authorization, usually characterized by the anonymization of users, participating hosts, or both.


clicko

From click + -o, by analogy with typo, as if this were formed a similar way from type.

(Internet, computing, slang) The inadvertent depressing of a computer mouse button on a wrong selection.


desysop

en-verb

desysop (third-person singular simple present desysops, present participle desysopping, simple past and past participle desysopped)

desysops (present singular third-person)
desysopping (participle present)
desysopped (participle past)
desysopped (past)

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William M. Connolley desysopped

2010 July 6, Eric Stevens (quoting Wikipedia Arbitration Committee), “Re: Wikipedia Accuracy”, in soc.history.ancient (Usenet):

i'll admit that i am flypaper for abusive admins. it's because i simply don't take shit from them. some of these abusive admins were eventually desysopped […]

2010 December 6, robert bristow-johnson, “boy, is *this* OT. but i'm game. (was Re: Imbecility)”, in comp.dsp (Usenet):

Eventually he'll be desysopped for good, and that will be a wonderful day for reason and honesty on the Internet.

2011 August 5, Ding Dong [username], “Re: All My Details”, in uk.legal (Usenet):

(transitive, wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) To revoke the sysop (administrator) privileges of.

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


WISA

Internet Information Services
w:Internet Information Services

Active Server Pages
w:Active Server Pages

(Internet) Acronym of Windows, Internet Information Services (web server), SQL Server, Active Server Pages: a Microsoft-based solution stack that can be used to create dynamic websites.


cookie jar

Everyone should review what cookies are stored in their Netscape cookie jar. It is a text file […]

2003, Bob Toxen, Real World Linux Security, page 265:

(Internet) The storage space for browser cookies.

caught with one's hand in the cookie jar


dynamic site

(Internet) A web site that displays information that changes using server-side code, generally with information retrieved from a database.


pron

en-noun

pron (countable and uncountable, plural prons)

Alternative form: pr0n

(Internet, leetspeak) Filter-avoidance spelling of porn.


XSS

The X denotes cross. CSS was avoided because of the potential for confusion with the existing Web technology named cascading style sheets.

cross-site scripting
cross-site scripting#English

(computer security, Internet) Abbreviation of cross-site scripting.


Google stalk

en-verb

Google stalk (third-person singular simple present Google stalks, present participle Google stalking, simple past and past participle Google stalked)

Google stalks (present singular third-person)
Google stalking (participle present)
Google stalked (participle past)
Google stalked (past)

(transitive) To enter a person's name into the search engine Google to find personal information about them.


edit war

As with dinner-table discussions, it is best to avoid editing articles about politics or religion unless one wishes to become entrenched in a perpetual edit war.

An unproductive edit war results as editors change the page back and forth between two incompatible versions, without troubling to engage in discussions.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 388:

In 2008, doubters of the official account of the attacks — sometimes called truthers — were told by the arbitration committee not to edit the main page on the attacks after so-called edit wars over what should be included there.

2011 September 12, Noam Cohen, “On Wikipedia, Echoes of 9/11 ‘Edit Wars’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Wikimedia jargon) A dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work where opposing editors continually change the page without discussion.

حَرْب اَلتَّحْرِير

a dispute over the content of a page on a wiki or other editable work


edit war

edit war (third-person singular simple present edit wars, present participle edit warring, simple past and past participle edit warred)

edit wars (present singular third-person)
edit warring (participle present)
edit warred (participle past)
edit warred (past)

When a dispute arises, it is common to see a page protected to avoid edit warring.

(Wikimedia jargon) To engage in an edit war.


Great Firewall of China

Blend of Great Wall of China + firewall, popularized in a 1997 issue of Wired.

Behind this hypothetical Great Firewall of China, most users would be allowed to exchange information with foreign sites if they were on the approved list

1997, A. Michael Froomkin, “Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: The Role of Intermediaries”, in Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure, →OCLC, page 146:

The "Great Firewall of China" is failing, largely due to the increased volume of Internet traffic in China.

2001, Greg Walton, China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China, →OCLC, page 5:

The Great Firewall of China is a case of corporate collaboration in censorship.

2007, Dinah PoKempner, “A Shrinking Realm: Freedom of Expression Since 9/11”, in Human Rights Watch World Report 2007, →ISBN, page 76:

The targets suggest the attackers are sympathetic to the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall of China.

2015 March 31, Dan Goodin, “Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 2015-04-01:

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(originally humorous, derogatory) Internet censorship by the Government of the People's Republic of China.


infobot

1991, A. Cordell, The rise of the infobot:

(Internet) A chatbot that provides access to a database of information via keywords or questions.


unsearchable

en-adj

unsearchable (comparative more unsearchable, superlative most unsearchable)

more unsearchable (comparative)
most unsearchable (superlative)

From Middle English unserchable, equivalent to un- + searchable.

“Having a band name like that makes me totally unsearchable,” says Rhode Island artist Λ, explaining that his name is pronounced “arc”, “but I like how using symbols means favouring an aesthetic choice over a more practical one.[…]”

2010 August 11, Sian Rowe, quoting Λ, “Meet the bands whose /\/ /\ /\/\ € $ are made out of $¥ /\/\ ß 0 \ $”, in The Guardian:

(computing, Internet) Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.


chatbot

From chat + -bot, from earlier chatterbot.

The chatbot was quite simple yet informative.

To deal with a large number of typical queries, “chatbots” technology should be considered. A chatbot can be defined as an intelligent evolution of email. The chatbot categorizes messages on the fly and provides answers to questions accordingly. As such, it can be used as a customer support tool.

2000, Handbook on Electronic Commerce, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:

Wolfram Alpha researcher and chatbot author Robert Lockhart describes the chatbot community as being split between two competing approaches, what he calls “pure semantics” and “pure empiricism.”

2012, Brian Christian, The Most Human Human […] , Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 29:

Chatbot technology, of course, dates back to Weizenbaum’s early experiments with his Eliza program.

2015, John Markoff, Machines of Loving Grace […] , New York: Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 221:

Mr. Aumann confronted his student over whether he had written the essay himself. The student confessed to using ChatGPT, a chatbot that delivers information, explains concepts and generates ideas in simple sentences — and, in this case, had written the paper.

2023 January 16, Kalley Huang, “Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.

2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(Internet, artificial intelligence) A computer program that holds conversations through a chat room.


web provider

(Internet) A business offering Internet-based services, such as an ISP (Internet service provider) or web hosting company.


Streisand effect

en-noun

Streisand effect (plural Streisand effects)

Coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick, after a 2003 incident in which singer Barbra Streisand attempted to have a picture of her house removed from a public collection of 12,000 images documenting coastal erosion in California.

No matter how effective your rebuttal may seem to be to you, a response will "bump" the problem into greater prominence and relevance in the search engine results, which then turns your headache into a migraine. This is doubly dangerous since "bumping" the negative information potentially introduces the "Streisand Effect" into the equation, which is something to avoid if at all possible. It is commonly defined as a phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information on the web backfires, causing greater publicity.

2009, John W. Dozier, Sue Scheff, Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet, HCI, →ISBN, page 40:

Say you discover that people aren't just talking about you, they're bashing you. Should you step in and try to stop them? Again, the answer is absolutely no! Leave them alone – you'll only make the problems worse and create a Streisand Effect if you try to hush them up.

2009, Kyle Lacy, Twitter Marketing For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN, page 215:

But that hasn't stopped Beck's lawyers from trying to shut down the site -- resulting in more blowback and another manifestation of the dreaded Streisand Effect!

2009 September 11, Jim Emerson, “Teaching the controversy”, Scanners, in Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 2009-09-15:

Though, the action of the US government was intended to suppress the leaks, the ‘Streisand effect’ made sure that the outcome was exactly the opposite. People all over the world, who hadn’t even heard of the Website, were typing WikiLeaks.org on their keyboards only to find a site-unavailable message, which increased their curiosity. People sympathetic to WikiLeaks, in the meantime, had voluntarily mirrored the website in order to keep it online.

2010 December 17, K Vaidya Nathan, “Beware the Streisand effect”, in The Indian Express, The Indian Express Limited, retrieved 2012-10-29:

A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination.

Barbra Streisand
California Coastal Records Project


MediaWiki

A camel case compound of media + wiki, based on Wikimedia.

MediaWiki is the most well-known wiki software because it is what runs WikiPedia. MediaWiki is simple to use and an excellent way to start collaborating on documentation or articles.

2006, Tim Jowers, The Business Guide to Free Information Technology, LuLu Press, →ISBN, page 59:

The architecture of MediaWiki is driven in large part by the idiosyncrasies of PHP. When MediaWiki was first developed, it used PHP 4.x, which lacked much in the way of object-oriented programming features.

2007, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:

MediaWiki is the software platform underlying Wikipedia; he chose that software because he's "amazed and fascinated" with both Wikipedia and the software underlying it, he said. He wanted to learn more about building wikis, and thought Lostpedia was a good place to start.

2008 April 26, Mitch Wagner, “Lost Fans Find Internet Thrills Via Wikis, Games, Second Life”, in InformationWeek, archived from the original on 2012-10-22:

A notable irony of Wikipedia's popularity is that the editing process of its supporting technology, MediaWiki, is complex to learn. Editing Wikipedia pages requires significant investment to learn MediaWiki's unique and powerful code structure.

2009, Terry T. Kidd, Irene Chen, Wired for Learning: An Educator's Guide to Web 2.0, Information Age Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 187:

First released in 2002, MediaWiki is one of the top wiki engines and runs most of the wiki hosting sites. The name was a play on “Wikimedia,” and many people find it to be annoyingly confusing.

2010, John K. Waters, John Lester, The Everything Guide to Social Media, F+W Media Inc., →ISBN, page 166:

The main downside of publishing a site using MediaWiki is that it won't give you a great opportunity to use or improve your HTML skills.

2011, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day, Sams Publishing, →ISBN:

The site is based on Wikipedia's MediaWiki platform, which allows anyone to add or edit the available content, provided they register for an account using a verifiable email address.

2012 October 8, Neil McAllister, “Tech rivals team up for free web dev docs”, in The Register, www.theregister.co.uk, retrieved 2012-10-28:

The wiki software used by many websites, including the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.


privacy seal

(Internet) An online branded trust mark or logo used by third-party site verification entities to protect online consumers by identifying trustworthy web sites.


screen name

(Internet) a pseudonym used for online communication

käyttäjänimi

a pseudonym used for internet communications


webroot

(Internet) The topmost directory in which the files making up a web site are located on a web server.


ambient findability

I mean to assert, rather, that everyware, the regime of ambient informatics it gives rise to, and the condition of ambient findability they together entrain, will have significant and meaningful impact on the way you live your life [...]

2006, Adam Greenfield, Everyware: the dawning age of ubiquitous computing, page 92:

This influence is exerted from conscious, proactive effort. Companies must aggressively pursue ambient findability, the art and science of promoting their domain through organic means.

2007, Kevin Potts, Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites, Apress, →ISBN, page 286:

These are just a few of the signposts along the road to ambient findability, [...]

2007, Diane Kresh, The whole digital library handbook, page 258:

(information science, Internet) The property of being findable at all times.


OG

en-adj

OG (comparative more OG, superlative most OG)

more OG (comparative)
most OG (superlative)

Accounts with OG names like "Daniel" or "summer" can often fetch a high price.

I joined Twitter pretty early and managed to snag a semi-OG handle.

I'm sure in lots of cases people get paid. In fact there is a black market for OG handles that can reach prices of up to 5k.

2020 May 24, u/jbutens, “How are celebrities able to get social media handles that are exactly their name? Do they buy it from people etc. if it's already taken?”, in Reddit, r/NoStupidQuestions, archived from the original on 2024-02-26:

Tryna fill my friends list with og/semi og names.

2021 May 16, @Horroraholic_, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-26:

Just wait untill the doxing / social engineering comes for og accounts

2023 May 11, u/Esco1980, “Why is this change being pushed despite overwhelmingly negative feedback?”, in Reddit, r/discordapp, archived from the original on 2024-02-26:

Shut down http://kyo.rip, haven't touched siege in ages, lots of people using the site to try to brute force accounts, check for og names and just being weirdos and I cba to update or maintain the site anymore. Goodbye

2023 June 6, @KyoDaHotdog, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-26:

It's a semi OG name, CocoChopper isn't og in any way

2023 June 11, u/HypeTheMoneyMaker, “Stepping down from CocoChopper for a semi-OG ign 🫡”, in Reddit, r/HypixelSkyblock, archived from the original on 2024-02-26:

(social media, video games, slang) Relating to a username which is a common word, phrase, or name.


respider

en-verb

respider (third-person singular simple present respiders, present participle respidering, simple past and past participle respidered)

respiders (present singular third-person)
respidering (participle present)
respidered (participle past)
respidered (past)


JFGI

(Internet slang) Initialism of just fucking google it.


spamvertizement

Blend of spam + advertisement (with the intentional misspelling of advertisement)

qual

(Internet) A type of unsolicited e-mail (spam) that specifically advertises a product.


kill file

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(Internet slang) A user's file listing the users of a newsgroup whose postings are to be ignored, or other criteria for ignoring posts.


internaut

Internauts are the travelers of the Internet. An Internaut explores and navigates the far corners of the Internet to bring back discoveries to be used for his / her benefit and for the benefit of others.

2002, Shelly M. Houser, Navigate the Net, Pearson College Division, page xiii:

(dated) A designer, operator, or technically capable professional user of the Internet.


mischan

(Internet, nonstandard) A message accidentally posted to the wrong IRC channel.


NG

en-noun

NG (countable and uncountable, plural NGs)

no good: attested in The Comprehensive Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1909) and in Students’ Edition of a Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1915).

(petrochemistry) Initialism of natural gas.

Could someone please re-post the FAQ to the NG?

(rail transport) Initialism of narrow gauge.


googlewhacker

The ultimate goal of a Googlewhacker: seeing the words "Results 1-1 of 1" appear in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

2002 January 30, Lisa M. Bowman, “Are you a secret Googlewhacker?”, in zdnet.com, retrieved 2008-01-21:


movlog

(Internet) A moblog containing video images.


moblog

A weblog posted from a mobile device, such as a cell phone or PDA.


hoster

Make sure your hoster provides fast FTP access to your files.

Microsoft sues Web hoster over spam

2004, Reuters news item at CNet News, 25 September 2004

(computing, Internet, neologism) A provider of online hosting, especially web hosting.


web developer

(computing, Internet) A person who develops applications designed to be used via the World Wide Web.


below the fold

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(by extension, web design, graphical user interface) Far enough down that it is not likely to be visible in the initial display of a window or screen, such that the end user will probably have to scroll down before seeing it.


red link

In most wikis, a link to a nonexistent page appears in red text.

(Internet, wiki jargon) A red hyperlink that directs to a nonexistent page of a wiki.


sping

(Internet) The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam.


trackback

trackback (countable and uncountable, plural trackbacks)

(countable, Internet) A snippet of text joined to an entry from another website linking to it.


^W

From the visual representation of the terminal encoding of the keypress Ctrl-W, the "delete back to whitespace" command in GNU readline, which is commonly available in GNU shells and other command-line utilities.

Yeah, he's a real jerk^W civility-challenged fellow.

Well, Mimi, you’re old enough that you should go to parties now, so this should be your last year to tickle feet^W^W trick-or-treat.

(Internet slang, usually humorous) Delete that last word.


link spam

link spam (usually uncountable, plural link spams)

(SEO) Links added to a web page for the purpose of spamdexing.


^H

A representation of ASCII character 0x08, which is backspace.

Read the fuc^H^Hine manual. ― Read the fucine manual.

(Internet slang, usually humorous) Delete that last character.


splog

The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).

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

(Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.


video chat

video chat (countable and uncountable, plural video chats)

(Internet) An audiovisual conversation with one or more other people by means of telecommunication technology.


video chat

en-verb

video chat (third-person singular simple present video chats, present participle video chatting, simple past and past participle video chatted)

video chats (present singular third-person)
video chatting (participle present)
video chatted (participle past)
video chatted (past)

(intransitive, Internet) To participate in a video chat.

With Apple’s solar farm, customers could now be confident that downloading an app or video-chatting a friend would not increase carbon pollution, Jackson said.

2014 July 25, Suzanne Goldenberg, “Apple eyes solar to power the cloud and iPhone 6 sapphire manufacturing”, in The Guardian:

(transitive, Internet) To communicate with (someone) via video chat.


UTFSE

(Internet, imperative, transitive) Initialism of use the fucking search engine.


deletionism

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(Wikimedia jargon) The condition of being deletionist.


inclusionism

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Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').

2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:

(Wikimedia jargon) A wikiphilosophy which advocates allowing a broader range of information to be included on Wikipedia (or a similar wiki), even if it is of marginal importance.


lolcat

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(Internet, neologism, dated) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.

lolcat

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humurous caption

(uncountable, Internet, neologism) The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.


live blog

They were covering the press conference on a live blog.

(Internet, neologism) A blog that gives up-to-date information about a progressing current event.

лайвбло́г

a blog which gives up-to-date information about a progressing current event


live blog

live blog (third-person singular simple present live blogs, present participle live blogging, simple past and past participle live blogged)

live blogs (present singular third-person)
live blogging (participle present)
live blogged (participle past)
live blogged (past)

I am going to be live blogging the press conference and I will keep you updated on any big news.

(Internet, neologism) To keep track of a current event in real-time online using a blog or other website.


IIS

(computing) Initialism of Internet Information Services


tag soup

(computing, Internet, informal) Poorly structured code in a markup language that uses tags (such as HTML), especially when it violates specifications.


tethering

en-noun

tethering (countable and uncountable, plural tetherings)

(Internet) The connection of a personal computer to a mobile phone so as to obtain wireless Internet access from the computer.

共享网络

connection of a computer to a mobile phone to obtain internet access


capslock

capslock (countable and uncountable, plural capslocks)


CRP

(Internet) Initialism of critical rendering path.


chatspeak

Given that people are trying to speak by writing in real time, chatspeak is infused with extensive abbreviations and there is little punctuation.

2001, Edward Castronova, “Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier”, in CESifo Working Papers, 618, p. 13:

Our students are using Internet shorthand or chatspeak in their online yakking in chat rooms and e-mails.

2002, Ronald A. Berk, Humor as an instructional defibrillator: evidence-based techniques in teaching and assessment, Stylus, page 140:

I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak.

2004, “Hello, All (who ever that is)”, in Smite the illiterate:

Is it too much to imagine a Bible written entirely in the language of tomorrow: Internet chatspeak and text message shorthand?

2008, Tom Breen, The Messiah formerly known as Jesus : dispatches from the intersection of Christianity and pop culture, Baylor University Press, page 69:

(Internet, informal) The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of chatrooms.


current affairs

Recent news, especially in-depth analysis of issues and events.


tweeting

(Internet) The posting of tweets (microblogging messages)


YHJBT

(Internet) Synonym of YHBT: you have just been trolled.


UPI

UPI (countable and uncountable, plural UPIs)

Their new methods and computational tools could create UPI from integrating and analyzing a user's search patterns, document inquiries, and myriad other signals of online behaviors, even when users do not directly provide that personal information: […]

2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 3, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

(Internet) Initialism of user profile information.


feed the troll

en-verb

feed the troll (third-person singular simple present feeds the troll, present participle feeding the troll, simple past and past participle fed the troll)

feeds the troll (present singular third-person)
feeding the troll (participle present)
fed the troll (participle past)
fed the troll (past)

The man rejected the business forum moderator's advice and decided to feed the troll by answering his irrelevant question whether he could host a game show.

(Internet) To respond to someone who posts deliberately inflammatory or disruptive statements, such as to a newsgroup or other online forum.


myspace

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From the social networking site MySpace.

Why did you delete your myspace?

(Internet slang) One's profile on the MySpace website.


whois

en-noun

whois (usually uncountable, plural whoises)

(Internet) The WHOIS protocol or service.


whois

en-verb

whois (third-person singular simple present whoises, present participle whoising, simple past and past participle whoised)

whoises (present singular third-person)
whoising (participle present)
whoised (participle past)
whoised (past)

We whoised the domain to find out who was sending the spam.

That seems to be an undocumented feature, but makes perfect sense. Of course, that wouldn't prevent you from whoising 20 people at once, which could be a problem.

2003, Joel, “Re: A whois addon”, in alt.irc.dalnet (Usenet):

(Internet, transitive) To look up using a whois protocol.


Godwin's law

Named after American attorney and author Mike Godwin (1956–).

named-after

The power to be a being of pure thought, the unlimited, unconstrained world of imagination, and we build a world of animated gifs, stupid sight gags, lame van-art avatars, stupid “playful” environments, and brain-dead flame wars augmented by animated emoticons that allowed participants to express their hackneyed ad hominems, concern-trollery, and Godwin's law violations through the media of cartoon animals and oversized genitals.

2012, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 296:

His article urges people not to be “afraid” of being charged with confirming Godwin's law. But who would be afraid of that charge when you believe that the Nazi analogy is apt?

2018, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue, Routledge, →ISBN:

(Internet, usually humorous) The adage that any Usenet discussion will eventually mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler.


egocaster

(Internet) A person who shares a personality or ego through a network, such as in a weblog or a podcast; someone who egocasts.


egocast

en-verb

egocast (third-person singular simple present egocasts, present participle egocasting, simple past and past participle egocasted or egocast)

egocasts (present singular third-person)
egocasting (participle present)
egocasted (participle past)
egocasted (past)
egocast (participle past)
egocast (past)

She egocasts further at http […]

2007. Diane Mapes. Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Page 267

(Internet) To create and broadcast an individual personality or ego through a network, such as via a weblog or a podcast.


egocast

[…] 6 efficient trees, defined, 232 egocasts, 221 elementary streams […]

2004, Damien Stolarz., Mastering Internet Video: A Guide to Streaming and On-Demand Video, page 458:

(Internet) The broadcast of an individual personality or ego through a network, such as a weblog or a podcast.


sock puppeteer

From sock puppet + -eer, after the model of puppeteer.

It is intent to deceive or to dabble in malicious mischief that sets a sock puppeteer apart from a legitimate user with multiple accounts.

2005 December 21, Shelley Powers, "Yo! Sock Puppets!" on Burningbird.net

The idea of a sock puppeteer as a minion was an extension of the term that was published in 2000 by U.S. News and World Report.

2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, Vol. II, s.v. Sockpuppetry

A person who controls a sock puppet (any sense).


SSG

SSGs would see a boost in 2008 with the creation of Jekyll, a Ruby-based SSG created by Tom Preston-Werner.

2023, Bryan Robinson, Eleventy by Example: Create powerful, performant websites with a static-first strategy, Packt, →ISBN, page 2:

static site generator
w:static site generator

(web development) Initialism of static site generator.


ph

(social media) Initialism of physical health.


blind carbon copy

en-noun

blind carbon copy (plural blind carbon copies)

(Internet) A copy of an email message that is sent to a person (often one of many) other than the primary recipient without the express knowledge of the other recipients.


blind carbon copy

en-verb

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

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

(transitive, Internet) To send a blind carbon copy.


banner ad

(Internet, advertising) An advertisement which extends horizontally across a web-page.


CTFO

Personally, I don't much give a shit how much some of you may dislike some others, but sweet baby jesus, Chill The Fuck Out, would ya? ... If ya gotta do it, do it; but CTFO a little, eh?

2006, Joe F. "rb608", “OT: CTFO Rant”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet):

(Internet) Initialism of chill the fuck out.


EOT

(Internet) Initialism of end of topic/thread.


MTP

An important feature of MTP is its capability to relay mail from one transport environment to another.

1981 May, Suzanne Sluizer, Jonathan B. Postel, “Mail Transfer Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 780:

(Internet, historical) Initialism of Mail Transfer Protocol, superseded by SMTP.


breakpoint

If a device's screen width is equal to, or less than, the screen width defined at the breakpoint, it will have the related CSS applied to it. You sometimes want to set breakpoints to match particular device screen widths, but I have found that what is most important is simply that the layout remains usable as it gets smaller.

2012, Charles Wyke-Smith, Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide:

(web development) A particular size at which a web page is designed to switch to a different layout.


UUCP

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol, a file transfer protocol used on networks, traditionally for Usenet and e-mail transfers.


NDR

en-noun

NDR (countable and uncountable, plural NDRs)

(Internet) Initialism of nondelivery report. (indicating inability to deliver email)


spammy

en-adj

spammy (comparative spammier, superlative spammiest)

spammier (comparative)
spammiest (superlative)

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Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling spam (junk e-mail).


booru

Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard software product.

If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.

2021 February 14, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021:

We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.

2019 February 14, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter:

I would like an app that let you add booru sites and that can support a large number of them (Danbooru, Safebooru, Zerochan, Anime-Pictures, ...).

2018 December 14, Neikki, Looking for a "booru" browser:

(Internet) A form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.


infomediary

Blend of information + intermediary. Coined in 1997 by John Hagel in a Harvard Business Review article, "The Coming Battle for Customer Information".

(Internet) An Internet site that deals in information pertaining both to businesses offering goods and services and to potential customers.


Intertubes

Blend of Internet + tubes. Inspired by the famous "series of tubes" analogy used on June 28, 2006 by then United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet.

Nameserver administrators also provide email forwarding, which is the equivalent of call-forwarding on the Intertubes.

2007, David Gewirtz, Where have all the emails gone? (citing a March 30, 2007 blog post on Corrente Wire), Zatz, p. 95

(If you missed my musings, you can find them on the Intertubes here [link removed])

2008 January, Rik Myslewski, “Deep Tech - Multicore Management”, in Mac Life, volume 2, number 1, page 17:

Go on out to the wilds of the Intertubes and have a look: there are approximately 8,234,58721 vegan food blogs […]

2009, Bob & Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, 2nd edition, PM Press, page 52:

(chiefly Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.


indef

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While there's nothing wrong with imposing a topic ban on an indef editor who may one day be allowed back, it is a little unusual.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) Of a user, account, or IP address: blocked or banned from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


indef

An indef seems the only way to stem the flow of disruption from this user.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) The action of blocking or banning a user, account, or IP address from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


indef

en-verb

indef (third-person singular simple present indefs, present participle indeffing, simple past and past participle indeffed)

indefs (present singular third-person)
indeffing (participle present)
indeffed (participle past)
indeffed (past)

I indeffed the editor based on the legal threat.

(Wikimedia jargon, Internet slang) To block or ban a user, account, or IP address from editing or other actions for an indefinite length of time.


omg

(chiefly Internet, slang) Alternative form of OMG:

(chiefly Internet, slang) Oh my goodness.

Alternative form of OMG:
Oh my goodness.


tag cloud

(Internet) A visual depiction of a set of tags, typically used to describe the content of web sites and having the more significant tags shown in correspondingly larger text or a bolder font.


viewable

en-adj

viewable (comparative more viewable, superlative most viewable)

more viewable (comparative)
most viewable (superlative)

(Internet, of a webpage or component) Able to be rendered correctly by a particular browser.


rickroll

en-verb

rickroll (third-person singular simple present rickrolls, present participle rickrolling, simple past and past participle rickrolled)

rickrolls (present singular third-person)
rickrolling (participle present)
rickrolled (participle past)
rickrolled (past)

4chan
Grand Theft Auto IV
Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley
YouTube

The verb is a blend of Rick + duckroll, combining the name of the British pop singer and songwriter Rick Astley (born 1966) with a reference to the duckroll prank on the website 4chan, in which users tricked into clicking on a hyperlink were led to an image of a duck on wheels. The word was coined by the American YouTuber Shawn Cotter (born 1987) who, under the handle “cotter548”, uploaded the music video of Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up” (1987) to the online video-sharing service YouTube and then posted messages on 4chan on May 15, 2007 ostensibly with links to a trailer for the forthcoming game Grand Theft Auto IV. People who clicked on the links instead saw the Astley video with the caption “You just got Rickroll’d” scrolling across the screen. The noun is derived from the verb.

coinage

I try not to get rickrolled by sketchy YouTube links, but sometimes you let your guard down.

YouTube ‘Rickrolls’ Everyone [title] […] Let the Internet pranking begin! YouTube, capitalizing on the resurgence of a popular meme, has booby-trapped each of the “featured videos” on its homepage. Click on any of the showcased clips and you’ll be taken instead to a cheesy video of pop singer Rick Astley singing his late-’80s hit song, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

2008 April 1, Jenna Wortham, “YouTube ‘Rickrolls’ Everyone”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-07:

Once you start rickrolling people, and more importantly get a reputation for it, you're heading towards being the Zimbabwean dollar in the link economy: it doesn't matter how many you offer, people just aren't going to buy them.

2008 December 5, Charles Arthur, “Why rickrolling is bad for you”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-22:

Despite its name, there is one thing the Vote Leave campaign should not have left for so long: registering a domain name. The delay by the anti-EU organisation meant that up to 100,000 people who tried to access voteleave.com, co.uk or .net were rickrolled – redirected to a YouTube clip of Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. So far, so internet.

2016 April 20, Homa Khaleeli, “How Vote Leave got rickrolled”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-17:

You send a Web link to someone, promising something exciting or compelling ("Is this you!?")—but the link actually takes your victim to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's 1987 music video, "Never Gonna Give You Up." That's it. That's the joke. Ha! You've been Rickrolled!

2020, David Pogue, “The Internet Celebrity Culture [Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness]”, in Social Media Influencers: Apps, Algorithms and Celebrities (In the Headlines), New York, N.Y.: New York Times Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 14:

(originally Internet slang) To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".

瑞克搖 /瑞克摇

to mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up”; to surprise or trick (someone) into hearing this song; to cause (someone) to unexpectedly engage with this song through an indirect method


cluestick

(Internet) Alternative spelling of clue stick


leecher

(Internet, file sharing) One who downloads material without uploading in exchange.


laggy

en-adj

laggy (comparative laggier, superlative laggiest)

laggier (comparative)
laggiest (superlative)

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I've given up trying to play on that laggy server.

(computing, Internet, video games, informal) Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.


LTA

en-noun

LTA (countable and uncountable, plural LTAs)

long-term abuse
w:Wikipedia:Long-term abuse

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of long-term abuse.


divitis

(web design, usually derogatory) The practice of authoring web-page code with many div elements in place of meaningful semantic HTML elements.


botter

It is estimated by industry and leading botters that only around 1 in 10 players using bots make a profit, mainly in low-stakes games.

2008, New Scientist, volume 200, numbers 2682-2688, page 28:

(Internet) One who operates a bot (automated software process).


webbook

(Internet) A book that may be read via the Internet.


pop-under

pop-up advertisement
pop-up advertisement

(Internet) A pop-up advertisement that appears behind the window that triggers its appearance, and thus cannot initially be seen.


IP in IP

Contraction of IP in IP encapsulation used in rfc:2003, which specified the protocol.

IP in IP is an unusual mechanism: not only does it use two network layers, it uses the same protocol on both.

Although IP in IP incurs an overhead, as the size of the headers is doubled, it may allow you to create a connection between two hosts that would otherwise be blocked by a firewall.

(Internet) A protocol for sending IP packets over an existing IP network.


LOLWUT

From lol + wut, a corruption of LOL and what.

LucasArts says old adventure games "impossible" on DS, SCUMM says lolwut?

Oh Hai! Icahn Haz a Blog? LOLWUT??

(Internet, Internet slang) A confused or sardonic response to a statement that is confusing, exaggerated, or idiotic.


cross-browser

(Internet) Compatible with more than one Web browser.


cybercrime

cybercrime (countable and uncountable, plural cybercrimes)

(uncountable) Crime committed using computer networks.


hit counter

(Internet) A numerical display on a web page indicating the number of times the page has been accessed.

besoekersteller

a numerical display on a web page indicating the number of times the page has been accessed


crosspost

(Internet) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups or forums simultaneously.

(computing, indexing) An instance of crossposting, or the post thus created.


crosspost

en-verb

crosspost (third-person singular simple present crossposts, present participle crossposting, simple past and past participle crossposted)

crossposts (present singular third-person)
crossposting (participle present)
crossposted (participle past)
crossposted (past)

(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post (a message) to multiple newsgroups or forums simultaneously.


image map

Once you have a good idea of how to divide your image map, you're ready to move to the next step, adding the necessary HTML tags to your Web page.

1997, Andrew Bryce Shafran, Creating Your Own Web Pages, page 162:

Keep in mind that some people choose not to (or cannot) view images, so image maps alone won't always work for navigation. Be sure to include text-based links to supplement your image map.

2004, Emily A. Vander Veer, Doug Lowe, Eric J. Ray, Creating Web Pages All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies:

(Internet) An image on a web page that is divided into shaped portions, each of which has an associated hyperlink.


top-post

(Internet, dated) A post on an online forum whose contents are placed above a quoted message which is being replied to.


top-post

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

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

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, dated) To make a top-post.


webring

The site had the look of an old Geocities^([sic]) page. Black background, ASCII art, novelty GIFs, visitor counters. There’s a link to the “badday webring” and an audio-only file of the video.

2018 January 12, Joe Veix, “The Strange History of One of the Internet's First Viral Videos”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring.

2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming:

(Internet, dated) A collection of related websites which are interlinked in a circular structure, each site having links to the previous and next site in the ring.


chanop

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:


JFTR

(Internet) Initialism of just for the record.


fanlisting

I have yet to join a fanlisting, I don't exactly have an all-about-me webpage that would necessitate advertisement like this.

2005, Carl Whithaus, Teaching and evaluating writing in the age of computers and high-stakes testing, page 125:

I always assume if I don't know someone, it's because they don't have access to the internet. Even Kat and Lori met each other on an internet fanlisting for folk/alt/country/rock singer Ani DiFranco.

2007, Allyson Beatrice, Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?, page 182:

(Internet) A website listing the submitted names of fans of a celebrity, film, or other topic.


hotlink

(Internet) A direct embedding of, or a hyperlink to, a resource on another server, particularly images or video.


LJ

During the years that I lived abroad without access to the Internet and LJ […]

2006, Henrike Schmidt, Katy Teubener, Natalja Konradova, Control and Shift: Public and Private Usages of the Russian Internet:

[…] various roles where the "real" person is not necessarily much like her LJ persona.

2006, Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet:

She put a banner for the One Campaign, an effort to eradicate poverty in the third world led by U2's singer Bono, on her LJ […]

2007, Anastasia Goodstein, Totally Wired:

(Internet) Initialism of LiveJournal, a blogging service or any of the individual blogs kept on it.


email bankruptcy

en-noun

email bankruptcy (countable and uncountable, plural email bankruptcies)

(Internet) A decision to close an e-mail account, wipe it clean, or ignore all the incoming messages, possibly sending automatic replies to the senders that a bankruptcy has been declared, due to an overwhelming receipt of messages.


barnstar

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There are many different Wikipedia barnstars that connote different things.

2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It, page 290:

(Wikimedia jargon) An image posted on a wiki user's personal page by another user, as an informal award or form of recognition.


Google bomb

An attempt to influence the ranking of a web page within the Google search engine by linking to it from many other pages.


imageboard

→ Russian: имиджбо́рд (imidžbórd)

An imageboard is a type of posting board centered around the posting of images. A very famous imageboard is 4chan.org.

2014, Jessica L. Beyer, Expect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

The concept for Anonymous began when American-run imageboard 4chan, a website created in 2003 for sharing images with accompanying comments, followed in the footsteps of the Japanese imageboard 2channel by allowing an anti-signup system where comment posters could remain anonymous.

2018, Barney Warf, The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, SAGE, →ISBN:

(Internet) A type of message board that revolves around the posting of images, with optional associated text, often characterized by the near lack of moderation and by the freedom to discuss any topic.


typonese

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(humorous, Internet, neologism) The writing of language with typographical errors, as though that were a language in its own right.


websafe

(Internet, computer graphics, historical) Of colours used in the design of a web page: not liable to be dithered on any system, thus appearing the same to all visitors to the website.


Yahtzee

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Milton Bradley Company
Yacht (dice game)
Yahtzee

Trademarked by the Milton Bradley Company in 1956, as an alteration of "Yatzie", derived from yacht (see Yacht (dice game)).


cyberstalker

(Internet) A stalker who operates online.


kickban

en-verb

kickban (third-person singular simple present kickbans, present participle kickbanning, simple past and past participle kickbanned)

kickbans (present singular third-person)
kickbanning (participle present)
kickbanned (participle past)
kickbanned (past)

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As soon as the admin arrived I was kickbanned from the channel with no explanation.

(transitive, Internet) To kick and ban (a user) from an Internet activity, such as IRC.


auto-reply

en-noun

auto-reply (countable and uncountable, plural auto-replies)

I'd like to be able to disable auto-reply for certain users.

(email, computing, uncountable) A feature in e-mail software that sends automatic replies, used for instance when the recipient of a message is on holiday.


Pepe

The character's creator, Matt Furie, chose the name Pepe because it reminded him of the term pee-pee, a resemblance he found funny.

One thread filled up with hundreds of Pepes to help meme Florida over to Trump, as if their energy could help Florida stay red.

2016 November 9, Abby Ohlheiser, “’We actually elected a meme as president’: How 4chan celebrated Trump’s victory”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-16:

Alternate iterations of Pepe, including sad, smug and angry Pepes, followed. Pepe memes are ubiquitous across 4chan, Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, and other social media and image-sharing sites.

2016 October 11, Jessica Roy, “How ’Pepe the Frog’ went from harmless to hate symbol”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-03:

(Internet slang, 4chan) An image or depiction of the Pepe the Frog character.


AOP

AOP (countable and uncountable, plural AOPs)

(Internet, countable) Initialism of automatic operator (“an IRC user automatically granted operator status on joining a channel”).


TGP

(Internet) Initialism of thumbnail gallery post, a website that links to many galleries (of e.g. pornography) and provides a thumbnail image of each.


craigslist

en-verb

craigslist (third-person singular simple present craigslists, present participle craigslisting, simple past and past participle craigslisted)

craigslists (present singular third-person)
craigslisting (participle present)
craigslisted (participle past)
craigslisted (past)

From the name of the website, itself from Craig's list (after founder Craig Newmark).

Over the days that follow Andrew's party, the craigslisting mania from our potential seller does not abate.

2009, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Gimme Shelter, page 207:

(transitive, Internet, informal) To advertise (a product or service) on the Craigslist website.


typosquatting

It's a technique, a sort of "typosquatting," that Maly has used repeatedly. A Web site called "Jobonline.cz" was registered last March and two months later Maly bought jobsonline.cz.

2000 April 4, ICB Toll Free News, “TYPO-SQUATTING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC”, in Toll Free 800, Domain Name, and ENUM Industry News and Information, archived from the original on 2004-01-17:

The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.

2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, 2nd edition, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 59:

(Internet) A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be mistyped by users.

typosquattage

registration of names likely to be mistyped by users


NNTP

(Internet) Initialism of Network News Transfer Protocol (a standard mechanism for transferring messages between a server and a newsreader program.)


oldbie

From old + -bie, coined as an antonym for newbie.

Coordinate term: midbie

(Internet, rare) An old-timer, a person with experience.


link exchange

(Internet) A scheme of reciprocal linking whereby two or more websites link to one another to increase traffic.


favelet

From fave + -let as abbreviation of favorite (the term used in the Internet Explorer browser for a bookmark).


hostmask

The channel operator banned the hostmask *!*@*example.com, so nobody could connect from example.com any more.

(Internet) On IRC, a partial address that matches a number of hosts.


blogroll

Blend of blog + logroll, or as back-formation from blogrolling.

(Internet) A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.


hostee

My main domain (currently) is www.lovesuicide.com and you can see just by looking there's a LOT of stuff on there, some of my hostees themselves take up more than 20 megs of space.

1999, manda, “I don't want to be another cihost casualty”, in alt.www.webmaster (Usenet):

Hi. Well, I'm starting a Hanson Fanfiction domain, but before I can actually start the process of registering the domain, I need atleast^([sic]) 4 hostees.

1999, BabyCarrot, “Hanson fanfiction domain”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet):

Since there's a router port somewhere between your servers and the Internet, you can query it (or your host can if it's shared among multiple hostees) to find out your total incoming and outgoing data rate.

2008, Cal Henderson, Building Scalable Web Sites:

(Internet) A person whose content is hosted on a domain owned by somebody else.


tagboard

The purpose of cam girl blogs vary wildly. They may contain anything from one-line entries about how the girl is feeling that day[…] or when she will be online to chat (often conducted via a tagboard—an instant message board—on her site), […]

2012, Anita Harris, editor, Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123:

(Internet) A small message board on a webpage, usually located in the sidebar, where visitors can leave a name and short message.

clibchlár

internet: a small message board on a webpage


instaban

instaban (third-person singular simple present instabans, present participle instabanning, simple past and past participle instabanned)

instabans (present singular third-person)
instabanning (participle present)
instabanned (participle past)
instabanned (past)

(informal, Internet) To ban without hesitation.


instaban

Next up in confusing Instabans...

2015 July 28, Elizabeth Denton, “Instagram Banned #Goddess and People Are Seriously Upset”, in Seventeen Magazine:

Instabans will spread.

2019 January 4, “Healthy holidays and a sunscreen rethink: top five travel trends for 2019”, in The Guardian:

You'll no longer catch an instaban for giving your PSN ID a potentially offensive name, as Sony plans to check each case individually.

2019 April 15, “Sony ends auto-bans for offensive PSN IDs – changes them automatically instead”, in Metro:


frameset

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The reloading of the frameset is obviously less attractive than simply changing the location of one frame.

(Internet) The set of frames that constitute the layout of a webpage.


JScript

(programming) A dialect of JavaScript developed by Microsoft.


LiveScript

The name originally proposed for JavaScript.


ECMAScript

(programming) A standardised specification of JavaScript, developed by Ecma International.


slambook

In classic Net slambook fashion, other members of the list responded to XXX's messages by sharing their own experiences with Pets Warehouse.

2005, Stephen Andert, Donald K. Burleson, Web Stalkers, page 146:

(Internet) An online guestbook of this kind, where each visitor is invited to write personal replies to a set of questions.