googleability

googleable + -ity. First use appears c. 2001. See cite below.

So, how far does cultural literacy go? Where does Trivial Pursuit end and cultural literacy begin? Is there significant overlap? The things that follow are probably "Googleable" (maybe not "Matamoros"). How much does "Googleability" correlate with cultural literacy? To what extent are mass media the "drivers" of cultural literacy?

2001 June 25, Jerry Bauer, “Cultural Literacy”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):

The good news is that you can improve your Googleability (or ability to show up on any search engine) so that people who search for information about you on the Internet will find you.

2007, Lindsey Pollak, Getting from college to career, page 39:

If you don't exist on Google, Yahoo and MSN, you don't exist. A strong "googleability" rating and online presence will enhance your Personal Brand.

2009, Hubert K. Rampersad, Authentic Personal Branding, page 117:

Thanks to Joop van Eijk, my father, for offering advice and guidance, for keeping track of my googleability, for making my Dutch summary readable and for having taught me to always explore all opportunities.

2010, G. Van Eijk, Unequal networks: spatial segregation, relationships and ...:

(informal) The likelihood of finding something using Google or another similar Internet search engine.


fancruft

Fancruft (sometimes shortened to just cruft) is a derogatory term for these types of articles, which are sometimes just barely tolerated.

[2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 225:

This contrast shows how dedicated Star Wars fans use the niche Wookieepedia to create and value content with a vast amount of detail and precision, even if the same content is viewed as fancruft within the more general Wikipedia community.

2012, Jason Mittell, “Wikis and Participatory Fandom”, in Aaron Delwiche, Jennifer Jacobs Henderson, editors, The Participatory Cultures Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 39:

Editors are the folks who detect and remove original research and fancruft.

2014, Michael Restivo, Why Wiki Works: Peer Production and Making Knowledge the Wiki Way (dissertation), Stony Brook University, page 1:

Although the term ["cruft"] is almost always intended negatively, it is also associated with a certain obsessive attraction, most obviously in the case of "fancruft," those excessively detailed wiki entries about extremely minor elements of some niche subculture.

2017, David Letzler, The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 5:

(Wikimedia jargon, derogatory) Trivial or excessively detailed information on a work of fiction added by fans to a general-interest wiki.


deep linking

(Internet) The practice of linking to a specific page or file within a website so as to bypass introductory pages, considered a violation of netiquette.


newsfeed

Without unfriending someone, you can now choose to limit or block (unsubscribe) someone from your newsfeed or choose to see only what Facebook deems as very important.

2013, Nils Smith, Social Media Guide for Ministry: What It Is and How to Use It:

(Internet) A feed, especially one providing news content.


hotlinking

(Internet) Directly embedding or linking to a resource on another server, such as an image or video, so that it appears to be part of the linking website — considered a violation of netiquette.


preloader

(web development, historical) In Flash animations, the loading screen that stalls for time while resources are downloaded.


hard redirect

I'd prefer to use a hard redirect so that people don't even notice we've reorganised the site.


sockpuppetry

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From sock puppet + -ry, under influence from puppetry.

The facelessness of the internet makes sockpuppetry all too tempting for many.

2007, Jonathon Keats, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang:

On the Internet, the new form of false identities is termed sock puppetry... the term came to be applied to people who would assume a false identity and then join an Internet group. The term has been extended to include people who use false identities on the Internet in order to deceive others.

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

The use of sock puppets, especially (Internet, derogatory) the use of pseudonymous online accounts for abuse.


wingnutosphere

From wingnut + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with blogosphere.

That was obviously violated today as the New Republic betrayed, once again, that it seeks to destroy the new people-powered movement for the sake of its Lieberman-worshipping neocon owners; that it stands with the National Review and wingnutosphere in their opposition to grassroots Democrats.

2006 June 26, Howard Kurtz, quoting Markos Moulitsas, “Coming Clean”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics, blogging, slang, derogatory) The community of bloggers perceived to be on the political far right.


QID

The Wikidata Q prefix is from Uzbek Qamarniso.

Inside the bot-friendly world of Wikidata, every concept and thing is represented with a numeric code dubbed a QID.

[2019 February 18, Tom Simonite, “Inside the Alexa-Friendly World of Wikidata”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Within the Unicode consortium, a discussion has been started to use the Wikidata numbering system (“QID”) to create a system of emoji encoding that lies outside core Unicode regulation […]

2019 September, Christian Lieske, Felix Sasaki, “Wikidata gets wordier”, in MultiLingual:

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Q-identifier, a unique identifier for an item in Wikidata.


friends list

(Internet) A list of contacts (in social networking, instant messaging, etc.), ostensibly the user's friends.


defriend

en-verb

defriend (third-person singular simple present defriends, present participle defriending, simple past and past participle defriended)

defriends (present singular third-person)
defriending (participle present)
defriended (participle past)
defriended (past)

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2005, Schmitt et al, Professional CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design
But why subject myself and friends to the awkward social construct of being virtually "defriended" because I want to save some space on a Web page?

Likewise, the actions of friending or defriending someone send out messages of their own.

2007, Mia Consalvo, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Internet Research Annual: Volume 4:

(social media, uncommon) To remove from one's list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website).


cyberattack

en-noun

cyberattack (countable and uncountable, plural cyberattacks)

He also points out that if the US does come under cyberattack, we may be powerless to stop the attack.

1996 July 1, Stephen Pizzo, “Information Superhighway Under Assault”, in Santa Rosa Press-Democrat:

In the months before Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's arrival in Beijing on Monday, the Obama administration quietly held an extraordinary briefing for the Chinese military leadership on a subject officials have rarely discussed in public: The Pentagon's emerging doctrine for defending against cyberattacks against the United States – and for using its cybertechnology against adversaries, including the Chinese.

2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times:

In recent months, cyberattacks have also crippled police departments in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, as well as hospitals treating coronavirus patients in intrusions that involved criminal groups holding data hostage and seeking payments to unlock the data.

2021 June 2, Christina Goldbaum, William K. Rashbaum, “The M.T.A. Is Breached by Hackers as Cyberattacks Surge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

An attack or intrusion by means of a computer network such as the Internet, often for the purpose of spying.


unfriend

en-verb

unfriend (third-person singular simple present unfriends, present participle unfriending, simple past and past participle unfriended)

unfriends (present singular third-person)
unfriending (participle present)
unfriended (participle past)
unfriended (past)

From un- (verb prefix) + friend. Compare Dutch ontvrienden (“to unfriend”), German entfreunden (“to unfriend”).

"I asked her why, she said it was because I didn't comment, and I shrugged and said whatever. I didn't unfriend her."

(social media) To defriend; to remove from one's friends list (e.g. on a social networking website).


graymail

From gray + mail: in the threat sense, by analogy with blackmail.

(Internet) Email that is not technically spam (since the user agreed to receive it) but which is unwanted, such as newsletters after making a purchase.


userbox

en-noun

userbox (plural userboxes or (jocular) userboxen)

userboxes (plural)
userboxen (humorous plural)

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I wasn't satisfied with the retrogamer userbox, so I created a new one.

2006, Lee K Seitz, “Any Wikipedians here?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet):

Creating a userbox template for posting on member editors' user pages.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual:

Currently, this userbox-mania is tending to decrease on Russian Wikipedia, being systematically repressed by administrators, but it is still thriving in the Ukrainian edition.

2013, Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva (eds.), Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States, page 134:

(originally wiki jargon, Wikimedia jargon) A simple, standardised box placed on a webpage to indicate the user's proficiencies or preferences.

thank you all!! All 10613 of you!!! Maybe more now!! Here’s to many more userboxes being made!!❤❤

2016 September 21, userboxes, retrieved 2014-07-07:

Made some plural userboxes, feel free to use! (With or without credit) - Ben Levine

2022 January 30, r/plural, retrieved 2014-07-07:

(Internet) A graphic modelled after this, shared on various social media websites.


in-box

Academic life, like any other, has a full in-box. A professor can stay busy answering his or her mail.

1999, Michael Szenberg, Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, page 187:

Since your next job may not have a very full in-box or a very heavy schedule, and might lack some of the psychic rewards that your previous leadership job had, your state of depression may worsen.

2002, Perry M. Smith, Rules & Tools for Leaders, page 122:

Our livers were never designed to have such a full in-box, and because most people are nutritionally deficient, the body also lacks the materials needed for detoxification

2006, Sally Beare, 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People, page 177:


in-box

en-verb

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

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


wireframe

Wireframes should be simple sketches that you can quickly revise and not get attached to.

2003, Andrew Chak, Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites, →ISBN, page 306:

(web design) A basic visual guide used to suggest the layout of fundamental elements in a web interface


wireframe

wireframe (third-person singular simple present wireframes, present participle wireframing, simple past and past participle wireframed)

wireframes (present singular third-person)
wireframing (participle present)
wireframed (participle past)
wireframed (past)

There are a few lists you should make before you start wireframing.

2006, Daniel M. Brown, Communicating Design, →ISBN, page 290:

(web design) To prepare a wireframe for a website


metablog

metablog (third-person singular simple present metablogs, present participle metablogging, simple past and past participle metablogged)

metablogs (present singular third-person)
metablogging (participle present)
metablogged (participle past)
metablogged (past)


domain hack

It is however, possible to create a domain hack. This is where parts of the domain spell out a particular word […]

2008, Chris Brophy, Manufacturing, Distribution and Promotion in the Music Industry:

I love those domain hacks, I own http://www.web2.0button.com and I recently got an email asking how I registered a domain name with a dot in it (HEHE).

2006, "Dave 2.0", http://en.gli.sh/ - web 2.0 en.gli.sh community (discussion on alt.usage.english newsgroup)

(Internet, informal) An Internet domain name in which the top-level domain (such as a country code) can be understood as part of the name rather than the usual suffix.


deopping

Chanserv can control a channel in terms of oppings and deoppings […]

1998, do...@noone.com, “Chat Channel”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet):

(Internet) The demotion of an IRC user from operator status.


opping

[…] the purpose of delaying autoops is basically reducing the number of mode changes, and grouping several oppings into one.

1994, Roger Espel Llima, “Keeping a channel open (ircii-2.6)”, in alt.irc (Usenet):

(Internet) The promotion of an IRC user to operator status.


trending

[…] the only conversation most people can keep track of is what’s trending on social media.

2015 September 28, Yesha Callahan, “Social Media Is Driving the TV Conversation”, in The New York Times:

(Internet, marketing) Popular or becoming more popular.


showcasing

en-noun

showcasing (countable and uncountable, plural showcasings)

(Internet, retail) The activity of browsing bricks-and-mortar stores to examine goods before buying them online, frequently from a different retailer.


typosquatter

However, little has been written about an interesting and growing subspecies of cybersquatter: the typosquatter. Instead of registering domain names containing the trademarks of others, these folks take a lower-risk course of action. They look around and see which Web sites get the heaviest traffic. Then they register, for themselves, domain names that consist of the likeliest typographical errors that users are may make when seeking to access these sites. Domain names like "amazom.com," "dismey.com" and so on.

1998 September 11, Robert C. Cumbow, “Day of the Typosquatters”, in The Internet Advertising/Marketing Law Report, archived from the original on 1998-12-03:

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 person who engages in typosquatting.


Ajaxify

en-verb

Ajaxify (third-person singular simple present Ajaxifies, present participle Ajaxifying, simple past and past participle Ajaxified)

Ajaxifies (present singular third-person)
Ajaxifying (participle present)
Ajaxified (participle past)
Ajaxified (past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To modify a Web application to use Ajax.


unwatch

unwatch (third-person singular simple present unwatches, present participle unwatching, simple past and past participle unwatched)

unwatches (present singular third-person)
unwatching (participle present)
unwatched (participle past)
unwatched (past)

To unwatch a page, you can simply revisit the page; you'll notice the tab now says Unwatch. Click the tab again to remove the page.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, page 319:

(transitive, wiki jargon) To remove (a webpage) from one's watchlist.


mashable

en-adj

mashable (comparative more mashable, superlative most mashable)

more mashable (comparative)
most mashable (superlative)

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As mentioned earlier, mashable services often require some sort of identifying information to understand what applications use their capabilities.

2007, Dana Moore, Raymond Budd, Edward Benson, Professional Rich Internet Applications:

That is, this chapter answers the question, how would you as a content producer make your digital content most effectively remixable and mashable to users?

(Internet, informal) Suitable for inclusion in a mashup.

mezclable

(internet informal) Suitable for inclusion in a mashup


CPC

en-noun

CPC (countable and uncountable, plural CPCs)

Coordinate term: CPI

(Internet marketing) Initialism of cost per click.


e-recruitment

(Internet, business) The process of personnel recruitment using electronic resources, in particular the internet, online job advertising boards and search engines.


cyberattacker

(Internet) The perpetrator of a cyberattack.


Facebook

en-verb

Facebook (third-person singular simple present Facebooks, present participle Facebooking, simple past and past participle Facebooked)

Facebooks (present singular third-person)
Facebooking (participle present)
Facebooked (participle past)
Facebooked (past)

Facebook me the details later.

Corinthia’s bathroom was never discussed with the Lugo Memorial student body, but when it (the bathroom) materialized, it was Facebooked, Instagrammed, Tweeted, Foursquared, WordPressed, Tumblred, Snapchatted, and so thoroughly digitally disseminated that it was as if pictures of Rinna Buss’s breasts had been leaked.

2018, Adam Rapp, chapter 1, in Fum, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 21:

(transitive) To send a message or leave a comment on Facebook.


favicon

From the original filename used by Internet Explorer, "favicon.ico", a blend of favorites (“browser bookmarks”) + icon.

blend

The only way to restore a favicon is to delete the link from the Favorites folder and recreate it.

2000, PC Magazine, volume 19, numbers 19-20, page 127:

A free online favicon editor allows advanced webmasters to create their own favicons and use them during website development or maintenance.

2002, Ejub Kajan, Information technology encyclopedia and acronyms, page 195:

You, however, can do better by creating your own customized favicon for your Web site — just the thing you need to add that professional touch.

2006, Richard Wagner, Web Design Before & After Makeovers, page 206:

Make sure to create a favicon. Since the browser will request this file anyway, there's no reason to return a 404 Page Not Found error, especially if your 404 handler consumes a database connection or other expensive resources.

2009, Steve Souders, Even Faster Web Sites, page 158:

Favicons are those cute little icons that appear on your browser's address bar when you visit some sites.

2009, Manny Hernandez, Ning for Dummies, page 312:

You can stick with the favicon provided by your Web host.
Do not worry about pronouncing favicon correctly. There is no definitive pronunciation.

2010, Janet Majure, Teach Yourself Visually WordPress, page 132:

(web design) An icon associated with a particular website, and typically displayed in the address bar of a browser viewing the site.


revving

en-noun

revving (countable and uncountable, plural revvings)

(Internet, uncountable) A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources.


AOLer

AOLers would post hello messages, old-timers would follow up with vituperative diatribes about reading the FAQ without telling them how to get it […]

Your external connection is already maxed out, and one thing you don't need is AOLers jamming up what bandwidth you have left.

2001, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, Martin Grasdal, Configuring ISA Server 2000:

(Internet, informal) An Internet user whose ISP is AOL.


pre-shared key

A method used to protect network traffic in WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) networks by requiring that all connected devices use the same manually entered password.


TLS

(Internet, security) Initialism of Transport Layer Security.


hyperlinkage

The process of concept generation results in a conceptual representation for Web hyperlinkage.

1997, Charles K Nicholas, James Mayfield, Intelligent Hypertext:

...a printed version of the WWW... would not only be extremely voluminous, but it would also be completely purposeless without its hyperlinkage.

1999, Steve Jones, Doing Internet Research:

...while the use of green, underlined copy (within a larger mass of black text) suggests the notion of hyperlinkage.

2003, Stephen D Reese, Oscar H Gandy, August E Grant, Framing Public Life:


antispam

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[…] at times I get huge amounts of duplicate messages that can overload my mail-reception pipeline, particularly antispam filters.

2005, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, Python Cookbook:

(Internet) Countering spam (unwanted electronic mail).

antyspamowy

countering spam (unwanted electronic mail)


courtesy copy

(Internet) A copy of an email sent to a person other than the main recipient, to keep them informed.


cyberbully

Typically, male cyberbullies use the computer more than the cell phone.

2007, Teri Breguet, Frequently Asked Questions about Cyberbullying:

A bully who operates online, in cyberspace.


warlording

From warlord + -ing. Named after the Usenet group alt.fan.warlord which was established as a forum for warlording, itself named after the Usenet user with the handle "Death Star, War Lord of the West" who became infamous in parts of Usenet for having a particularly bloated signature block.

(Internet, historical) The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.


cyberchondriac

Blend of cyber- (prefix denoting cyberspace or the Internet, or computers more generally) + hypochondriac.

blend

Doctors are on the alert for a new kind of victim: the cyberchondriac. With so much health information now on the Internet, thousands of people are using their computers to try to match symptoms with diseases.

1998 June 27, Roger Dobson, “Doctors warn the cybersick”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-08:

The growth of the Internet—arguably the fastest-growing new technology in history—has generated explosive growth of people who search the Web for healthcare information related to specific diseases. We call these people "cyberchondriacs." […] The diseases that generate the greatest use of the Web are depression (19 percent of cyberchondriacs), allergies or sinus (16 percent), cancer (15 percent), bipolar disorder (14 percent), arthritis or rheumatism (10 percent), high blood pressure (10 percent), migraine (9 percent), anxiety disorder (9 percent), heart disease (8 percent) and sleep disorders (8 percent).

1999 March 4, Louis Harris, “Harris survey: New breed of ‘cyberchondriacs’”, in John A. Jones, editor, Johnson City Press, volume 79, number 206, Johnson City, Tenn.: Sandusky Newspaper Group, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2:

Some doctors complain that they are being plagued by a new type of hypochondriac, dubbed the cyberchondriac, a condition in which patients arrive at the surgery armed with piles of information to try to prove that they have a certain illness. A quick internet search for information on back pain illustrates the problem. Search for the word 'backache' using the Excite search engine, for example, and you are presented with a list of 2643 sites.

2002, Steven B. Kayne, “Practice and Delivery of CAM [Complementary and Alternative Medicine]”, in Complementary Therapies for Pharmacists, London: Pharmaceutical Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Introduction to CAM), pages 25–26:

Faced with the printout-wielding patient or ‘cyberchondriac’, it is tempting to take the view that the Internet is the spawn of the Devil. However, a better strategy may be to offer more reliable Internet sites for the patient to visit; […]

2006, Alan Gillies, “Informatics Can Empower Patients”, in The Clinician’s Guide to Surviving IT, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, part I (What Can Informatics Do for Me?), page 67:

None of them carried news of research into his condition, but there was enough for any cyberchondriac to get his mind around.

2006, S[aif] Rahman, “Baltic Balti”, in Down to a Sunset Sea, [London]: Twenty First Century Publishers, →ISBN, page 84:

Word Watch: Cyberchondriac [title] Definition: A person who's convinced he or she has a particular medical condition based on information found on the Internet.

[2007 November, “Word Watch: Cyberchondriac”, in Will Smith, editor, Maximum PC, San Francisco, Calif.: Future US, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

An article in the April 2012 issue of ‘Psychological Science’ suggested that the irrational tendency at work in the brains of cyberchondriacs is the same as that in the brains of gamblers. When gamblers get a positive roll of the dice, they think that their luck will continue. When cyberchondriacs match a few of the symptoms for a condition, they take that as a positive sign and may assume they must have the other symptoms on the list.

2012 November 14, Lisa Jewell, “Are you a cyberchondriac?”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-07:

(Internet, psychology) A hypochondriac (“person with an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness”) who researches their potential medical condition on the Internet.

netistä sairauksia hakeva luulosairas

hypochondriac who researches their potential medical conditions on the Internet


microblog

For Dorsey, creating this community of linked microblogs has been "endearing, because you know what everyone you know is doing" […]

2006 December 10, Richard Rushfield, “It's real time at the same time”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30, page E20:

(Internet) A blog on which one posts brief, frequent updates on one's activities.


microblog

en-verb

microblog (third-person singular simple present microblogs, present participle microblogging, simple past and past participle microblogged)

microblogs (present singular third-person)
microblogging (participle present)
microblogged (participle past)
microblogged (past)

I started microblogging last week.

(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post on a microblog.


microblogging

A variety of microblogging sites have sprung up.

The writing or publishing of a microblog.


microsite

Meronyms: pagelet; applet

The movie site has a microsite where fans can speculate about the ending.

I set up a microsite where people could create T-shirts using a library of official brand assets (including our official logos, fonts, and colors), plus pictures of gold chains, pink faux fur, and eXe-themed versions of contemporary memes.

2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

(Internet) A self-contained page or group of pages meant to supplement a larger website.


blinkie

The buddyicon.info Web site offers thousands of AIM buddy icons (28838 by my most recent count), as well as "away" icons and "blinkies" […]

2007, Lisa Nakamura, Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet:

You want people to be able to find your entries; try to keep the extra bling, like distracting scripts and blinkies, to a minimum.

2007, Joelle Reeder, Katherine Scoleri, The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie:

Don't animate your visuals to blink ad infinitum. Set a small-file blinkie to turn off after no more than three passes at whatever it is your blinkie does.

2012, Kim Golombisky, Rebecca Hagen, White Space is Not Your Enemy:

(Internet) A small animated graphic for use on a web page, usually taking the form of a picture or phrase with blinking lights around it.


cyberwarfare

The geth models collectively dubbed "hoppers" by Alliance forces are electronic warfare platforms. They can project electromagnetic radiation across a broad spectrum as an offensive weapon. They can also perform cyber warfare attacks against the onboard computers of body armor hardsuits and weapons, adversely affecting their performance.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth: Hoppers Codex entry:

Many [computer attacks of Chinese origin] are believed to be linked to cyberwarfare units of the People's Liberation Army acting on behalf of state-owned, or state-affiliated, Chinese companies.

2014 April 6, David E. Sanger, “U.S. tries candor to assure China on cyberattacks”, in The New York Times:

Warfare taking place on the Internet, as by disrupting critical online services.


microblogger

From micro- + blogger or microblog + -er.


repost

repost (third-person singular simple present reposts, present participle reposting, simple past and past participle reposted)

reposts (present singular third-person)
reposting (participle present)
reposted (participle past)
reposted (past)

Maybe I should repost the FAQ for the benefit of newbies.


repost

This newsgroup mostly seems to consist of reposts of the FAQ. Doesn't anyone talk?

(Internet) The act of posting again; the material thus posted.

uudelleenpostaus

the act of posting again, the material thus posted


blam

[…] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:

To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.

2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:

(Internet, informal) Spam posted to a blog.


e-security

information security
information security

(Internet) Security as it pertains to the Internet, such as information security.


JavaScripting

The swliveconnect attribute comes into play when you're using FSCommands or JavaScripting in your Flash 4 movies.

2000, Joseph W Lowery, Dreamweaver 3 Bible:

Whether you're an old-school scripter who needs to modernize your JavaScripting skills or a standards-aware Web developer who needs best practices...

2006, Peter-Paul Koch, ppk on JavaScript:

programming language
programming language

(computing) Programming in the JavaScript programming language.


NVRM

(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of never mind.


listserv

At subregional, regional, and global conferences, as well as through websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters, and public reports and books, feminists from the South have articulated strategies to break down structural inequality […]

2006, Mary E. Hawkesworth, Globalization and Feminist Activism, page 130:

Rather than producing flashy television spots, it has placed simple ads on Web sites of news organizations and urbanbaby.com, and tried to spread its positions by posting on education and community listservs and blogs.

2009 January 29, Jennifer Medina, “Backers of Mayoral School Control Face Resistance”, in New York Times:

Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.

2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:

(Internet) A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.


leftosphere

From left + -o- + -sphere, perhaps by analogy with blogosphere.

I know quite a few [marines in the] USMC, my kid was in Iraq. To the man, none of them fit the "clueless" stereotype that is propogated by the leftosphere.

2006 March 30, "SteveR" (username), "Re: Rumsfeld - Pre-9/11 Thinking", in tx.politics and other newgroups, Usenet

Sure, you mention some of the good things to come out of the leftosphere - what's the most recent "good" thing they have done? Hmm? All you mention is ancient history.

2008 March 4, O'Neil's Faggy Prostate - SWEEPEAT!!!, “Re: I. . . I just couldn't do it!!! :_(”, in alt.sports.baseball.bos-redsox (Usenet):

I've read complaints from the leftosphere complaining that there's no soundbite to play in retaliation to the noisebots on Fox.

2008 March 19, Sam Hutcheson, “Re: How to ensure Obama coasts to the Democratic nomination”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves.coffeeshop (Usenet):

When kos sneezes, the rest of the nutroots catch a cold, so [James] Webb should be an acceptable nominee to the entire leftosphere.

2008 December 5, Josh Painter, Team Obama needs your help:

(US) Blogs on the political left, taken collectively.


sysophood

In one section, Schuyler states that someone aspiring to Fido sysophood "can only expect so much help" from the sysops that have already linked up.

1993, William J Shefski, Free Electronic Networks:

I have already walked the path of sysophood. It sure beats being a humble user.

1995, S|ren Erichsen, “THIS IS PELEDA CALLING WUNDEE!”, in alt.1d (Usenet):

I am going to apply for sysophood soon but have not done so yet.

2000, Alex Cain, “Temporary Ban...”, in microsoft.public.games.zone (Usenet):

(rare) The state or period of being a sysop.


cybermoney

(informal, Internet) Synonym of e-money.


eBayer

(Internet, informal) A member of the auction web site eBay.


streamable

Together, they made the TED talks streamable on the Web in 2006.

2009 January 25, Virginia Heffernan, “Confessions of a TED Addict”, in New York Times:


SFW

(Internet, initialism) Safe for work; i.e., content containing neither graphic nor adult imagery, such as content that would not be offensive to employers or co-workers.


GDGD

(initialism, Internet, informal) Good, good.


TFA

en-noun

TFA (countable and uncountable, plural TFAs)

Today's featured article
Wikipedia:Today's featured article

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Today's featured article in English Wikipedia.


spammable

en-adj

spammable (comparative more spammable, superlative most spammable)

more spammable (comparative)
most spammable (superlative)

...such as finding people to cold-call and prospecting for spammable addresses.

2000, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R Hein, Unix System Administration Handbook:

This can be done in many ways, which we look at shortly. Once you know it is spammable, you just need to know exploit ^([sic]) the system.

2003, Robert Shimonski, Building DMZs for Enterprise Networks:

He didn't recognize the sender, but this was a very secure, non-spammable address. The subject line simply said MESSAGE.HTML. He clicked on the blue text...

But now software vulnerabilities — as with stolen credit-card numbers and spammable e-mail addresses — carry real financial value.

2007 January 30, Brad Stone, “A Lively Market, Legal and Not, for Software Bugs”, in New York Times:

(Internet, rare) That can be spammed; susceptible to spamming.


webcartoonist

(comics, Internet) A person who creates webcomics.


linkify

en-verb

linkify (third-person singular simple present linkifies, present participle linkifying, simple past and past participle linkified)

linkifies (present singular third-person)
linkifying (participle present)
linkified (participle past)
linkified (past)

(Internet, informal) To convert (something in a body of text) to one or more internal links or hyperlinks.


(Internet, slang) Initialism of message to all friend, used on messages to all users in a friends list of services with strict character limits on said messages.


dotted decimal

en-noun

dotted decimal (countable and uncountable, plural dotted decimals)

127.0.0.1 is the dotted decimal representation of the binary value 01111111000000000000000000000001, which is the address your computer uses to refer to itself.

(Internet) A method of writing IP addresses where the value of each byte is given as a decimal number, and each byte separated by a dot.


geotag

en-verb

geotag (third-person singular simple present geotags, present participle geotagging, simple past and past participle geotagged)

geotags (present singular third-person)
geotagging (participle present)
geotagged (participle past)
geotagged (past)

Got fans on me, IG story, know where I be / All geotagged, got brands on me, got ads on me

2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:

(transitive, Internet) To augment (a photograph or other item) with metadata indicating a geographic location.


geotag

But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.

2018 February 12, Josh Duboff, “Reese Witherspoon Is Natalie Portman’s Instagram Guru”, in Vanity Fair:

(Internet) A piece of metadata indicating a geographic location, attached to a photograph or other item.


emoji

Borrowed from Japanese 絵文字(えもじ) (emoji), from 絵(え) (e, “picture”) + 文字(もじ) (moji, “character”). The word is etymologically unrelated to emotion and emoticon, but the coincidental phonetic resemblance may have facilitated its adoption into English.https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Loanwords_and_Japanese_Identity/VAymEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=emoji&pg=PA184

In order to communicate quickly, many mobile phone users use emoji characters (similar to emoticons) while sending messages. Service providers have also created a set of emoji characters and have added support for it.

2002, Language International: The Business Resource for a Multilingual Age, volume 14, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45:

One of the most exciting announcements at Twitter's Chirp conference this week was "Annotated Tweets". […] The data attached doesn't have to be simple text. Twitter suggests examples such as MIDI data (for music) or emoji (for fancy emoticons).

2010 April 17, Martin Bryant, “Twitter Reveals Details of New ‘Annotated Tweets’ Feature”, in The Next Web, archived from the original on 2017-02-22:

So what do a bunch of dudes with iPhones do when they haven't eaten all day, are waiting at your restaurant table, starving, annoyed, and need to pass the time. They innovate. They bring emojis to life. In public. […] Give it a shot – it's probably the one semi-practical thing you can do with an emoji[…].

2011 April 5, Sam Biddle, “IRL Emojis: Our New Favourite Way to Waste Time on the Phone”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2013-03-20:

Like any natural language grammar, the distribution of emoji in texts, as well as the construction of phrases and sentences with emoji symbols in them, implies a systematic structure, otherwise it would be impossible to literally "read" the emoji texts.

2017, Marcel Danesi, “Emoji Grammar”, in The Semiotics of Emoji (Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics), London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 77:

At present, Emoji functions not to replace the linguistic mode, but to complement it – the good old-fashioned English word is not going to be in danger any time soon. Emoji enables, arguably for the first time, a multimodal component to text-based digital communication, providing a code that fills out the communicative message in the linguistic mode, conveyed through text.

2017 August, Vyvyan Evans, “What’s in a Word?”, in The Emoji Code: The Linguistics behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats, 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 102:

Apple wants to introduce new emojis to better represent people with disabilities. A guide dog, a wheelchair user and prosthetic limbs are just some of the symbols it's suggested.

2018 March 24, “Apple Wants to Introduce New Emojis for Disabled People”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2018-07-09:

In addition to promoting efficient communication, emojis foster a sense of camaraderie and unity among coworkers. This was demonstrated during the initial stages of the pandemic when Slack employees used the ❤ emoji to express solidarity and emotional support.

2023 July 17, Benjamin Laker, “Emojis in the Modern Workplace: A Psychological Perspective”, in Psychology Today:

A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.


hyperlocal

Or, as Placeblogger.com, a Web site that promotes and tracks blogs with a hyperlocal focus, put it: “Placeblogs are about the lived experience of a community, some of which is news and some of which isn’t.”

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

Each customized boutique location would be a one-of-a-kind representative for its neighborhood, allowing you to go out on the (home)town, then walk or bike back to your room […] .
Everything about the experience would be hyperlocal. Dine at a neighborhood restaurant, hit the bar down the street, stop at a gallery or shop at a store.

2010 September, Bill Keaggy, "STL Lo-tels", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 76

(chiefly journalism and blogging) Related to a very small area, smaller than normally considered local.


userspace

en-noun

userspace (countable and uncountable, plural userspaces)

(Internet) A namespace on a wiki used by individual users for personal details and discussions.


soundboard

Check out these celebrity soundboards and play prank phone calls on your friends, family, and co workers...

2007, starmuscle@gmail.com, “Celebrity Soundboards”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

(Internet) A control panel offering playback of various sound effects.


midroll

He says he has never used an edited thumbnail, inserted a midroll ad or tried to chase any kind of YouTube trend.

2024 May 23, Chris Almeida, “They’re Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet, advertising) An advertisement that interrupts an online video, playing before the video resumes.


SVoIP

(Internet, telephony) Secure Voice over IP.


VoSIP

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Secure IP.


SVoSIP

(Internet, telephony) Secure Voice over Secure IP.


ANN

(Internet) Abbreviation of announcement. (in e-mail or newsgroup subject lines)


walled garden

Link love is reciprocal; if you provide it liberally, it comes back to you. If you don't, you'll turn into your own walled garden.

2007, Michael A. Banks, Blogging Heroes, →ISBN, page 52:

(Internet) A set of web pages or other resources that are richly interlinked and share a common focus, but have little or no linkage to or from the larger network.


ICMP

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Control Message Protocol.


JavaScripted

And even here in the 21ˢᵗ century—where data is more typically restructured, marked-up, CSS’d, JavaScripted, hyperlinked, and finally browsed—a simple text-based report is still often a cleaner and more usable alternative

2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices, page 449:

Your best protection is to follow the update instructions for any software you’re using, such as a CMS, a shopping cart, or JavaScripted features such as slideshows.

2011, George Plumley, Web Design and Development, page 278:

Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions

2012, Christopher Schmitt, Kyle Simpson, HTML5 Cookbook, page 99:

(computing) Implemented in the JavaScript programming language.


cybercrook

It is widely recognized that you are far more likely to be swindled by a waiter at a restaurant than an evil cybercrook.

2001, Duncan Grey, The Internet in School:

The cybercrook has realized that stealing the next version of the Coca-Cola recipe or Windows software is worth more than a $10 million heist.

2005, Hedieh Nasheri, Economic Espionage and Industrial Spying:


bounceback

Don't be fooled into thinking that just because you don't get many bouncebacks and not many people are unsubscribing that you have a good list […]

2012, Alex Blyth, How to Grow Your Business, page 17:

(Internet) An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.


siggy

(Internet, informal) A sig (signature used in posted messages).


flist

(Internet) Abbreviation of friends list.


metasearch

metasearch (countable and uncountable, plural metasearches)

You can also use a metasearch site like Kayak.com to get a snapshot of available flight alternatives.

2008 June 28, Michelle Higgins, “Spate of Changes in Airline Industry Heightens the Need to Plan Ahead”, in New York Times:

A search technology that uses the results from a number of traditional search engines.


cyberlaw

cyberlaw (countable and uncountable, plural cyberlaws)

In a recent article in Nature magazine, AI research^([sic]) Kate Crawford and cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo warned that the new wave of excitement about intelligent design was creating dangerous blindspots when it came to the social knock-on effects of replacing humans with robots.

2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants'”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-07-30:

intellectual property
intellectual property

(Internet) Law as it relates to the Internet and computing offences, covering such issues as intellectual property and the blurring of international boundaries.


subsite

Holonyms: website, site

(computing, Internet) A website that is subordinate to another website and hosted in its entirety under that site's domain name.


yt

From the pronunciation of y /waɪ/ + t for /t/ or /tiː/.

People of color aspire to be light skinned and yt people aspire to be tan. It is only aesthetically pleasing for yt people to be brown.

2017 Spring, Tess Griffin, When life gives you lemons, bleach your skin, in Growl (Hofstra English Society & Campus Feminist Collective), issue 1

(Internet slang, African-American Vernacular, often derogatory) Alternative spelling of white (“Caucasian”)


yt

(uncommon, Internet slang, African-American Vernacular, derogatory, offensive) Alternative spelling of whitey


yt

Abbreviation of þat (“that”), the letter y takes the place of the old letter thorn (þ), as in ye for þe (“the”).

The King appear'd to be much hurt at this, told me he did not credit what he told him, as he knew yt. you & I had never had any dispute together, & yt. William & you had had some misunderstanding in Germany[…]

1791, George IV, “Carlton House, 24 July 1791”, in A. Aspinall, editor, The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770–1812, volumes II: 1789–1794, London: Cassell, published 1964, page 177:


Digger

THANKS TO DIGG, the Web’s most frequented news-ranking site, we now know: Geeks like gaming gossip, incendiary technology policy stories, and NASA photos. Diggers vote early and often, and can get breaking news to the front page surprisingly quickly.

Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.

2009 November, Dan Zarrella, “Social News and Bookmarking”, in The Social Media Marketing Book, O’Reilly Media, published 2011, section “Reddit”, page 121:

As Justin Halpern told me, “I think what both [Rob Corddry and actress Kristen Bell] did, especially Rob, was that they got Shit My Dad Says seen by people that aggressively share stuff online. Diggers, Redditors, etc.[…]”

2012 September, B. J. Mendelson, “And Now You Know … the Rest of the Story”, in Social Media Is Bullshit, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part I, page 53:

(Internet) A user of the American news aggregator Digg.


IRCer

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

1995, Donald Rose, Internet Chat quick tour:

IRCers frequently use nicknames and MUDers can not only choose a name, but also a gender and a character.

1996, Rye Senjen, Jane Guthrey, The Internet for Women, page 94:


stylesheet

en:computer file with markup controlling style for other files

(web design) A document consisting of markup that describes the layout and presentation to be used when displaying other documents.

stilfolio

Internet: a document consisting of markup that describes the layout and presentation to be used when displaying other documents


link topology

(Internet) The study of the linked structure of the World Wide Web.


webocracy

webocracy (countable and uncountable, plural webocracies)

From Web + -o- + -cracy, dating from the 1990s.

(Internet) The online participation of citizens in democratic processes such as in online voting during parliament elections.

(Internet) Online users' joint participation in the creation of the Web content.


multisite

a multisite CMS installation

(Internet) Of or relating to more than one web site.


URI

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier#English

(Internet) Initialism of uniform resource identifier.


top-poster

(Internet, dated) Someone who top-posts.


uniform resource identifier

uniform resource identifier (plural uniform resource identifiers)

(Internet) A string of characters that identifies a resource that can be accessed over the Internet.


imagemapping

(Internet) The generation and use of image maps.


subframe

Specify the dimensions of your main frame and subframes and this online utility will create them for you.

1998, Steven E Callihan, Create your first Web Page in a weekend:

(Internet) One of the HTML frames that make up a frameset.


spamless

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The site even had — in those innocent, spamless days — a directory of e-mail addresses, making it easy for users to communicate with message board regulars.

2003, Adam Cohen, The Perfect Store: Inside EBay:

However, the largest impediment to a quick adoption and a world of spamless e-mail is that it places a heavy burden on the sender of new mail.

2004, Paul Wolfe, Charlie Scott, Mike Erwin, Anti-spam tool kit:

If only everyone on the Internet would do this, we could realize the dream of a spamless Internet utopia.

2005, Wade Edwards, Todd Lammle, et al: CCSP Complete Study Guide: Exams 642-501, 642-511, 642-521, 642-531, 642-541:

...welcome to join the conversation in a free, moderated, SPAMless e-mail discussion group.

2006, Gene Marks, Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists:

(Internet, rare) Without spam (electronic junk mail).


Usenetter

For example, if a user wants to create a new group he could first consult the active list and its comments to find a relevent group. Of course, a more experienced UseNetter would only wish to peruse subsets such as "net.all" or "fa.all".

1982 January 19, Scott Kramer, “net.micro”, in net.news.group (Usenet):


Web 3.0

Web 3.0 does not yet exist, but it shines forth in online cooperation. […] Web 3.0 technologies like wikis are not only communicative, but also cooperative.

2007, Christian Fuchs, Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:

Stepping back to the Web topics, what are your thoughts on Web 3.0, the Semantic Web?

2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

Even though Web 2.0 has not been fully implemented, there are talks of Web 3.0 and what the future may hold. Many predict it will be the Semantic Web where users will be able to request information rather than have to search for it.

2008, P. Candace Deans, Social Software and Web 2.0 Technology Trends, →ISBN, page 55:

Some people already think about what is happening with the Web 3.0, the semantic web, the Internet of things, for instance.

2009, Sigrid Baringhorst, Political Campaigning on the Web:

Web 3.0 refers to the third stage in the evolution of the Web that now has significant extension in the types of data, people, and interactions, along with heterogeneity and scale.

2013, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Semantics Empowered Web 3.0 […] , Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:

As the year unfolds, pay attention to the people who are talking about a new, decentralised internet – AKA Web 3.0 – and the possibility of data being returned to the control of the people who generate it.

2019 January 7, John Harris, “Together we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how”, in The Guardian:

Although not the Semantic Web envisioned by Berners-Lee, Web 3.0 is in many ways a return to his original web, where “no permission is needed from a central authority to post anything …^([sic]) there is no central controlling node, and so no single point of failure …^([sic]) and no “kill switch”!

2020 January 6, Charles Silver, “Council Post: What Is Web 3.0?”, in Forbes, retrieved 2021-04-22:

(Internet, neologism) The predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content and decentralized protocols.


cyberrape

[…] as the Baker case shows, saying that no physical attacks actually occur and that the cyberrape or cyberharassment is just "words" would not ease the feeling of violation.

1997, Ching-Yi Liu, The Regulation of Cyberspace:

(Internet) Rape in cyberspace or on the Internet.


cyberpolice

The cyberpolice on Prodigy had busted me. Evidently, you can call the authorities from a button on your computer and complain when profanity is being used.

The cyberpolice and their elite masters are living under the sign of virtual catastrophe (that is, anticipating the electronic disaster that could happen)...

2004, Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall, Iain Borden, The city cultures reader:

Syria is not the only Arab state with a hyperactive cyberpolice.

(Internet) A police force that patrols the Internet or cyberspace.


cyberstore

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


ARIA

Accessible Rich Internet Applications
w:WAI-ARIA

(Internet) Acronym of Accessible Rich Internet Applications.


YouTube

/ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

Website name, from a compound of you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”), implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.

com+

Alternative form: (abbreviation) YT


YouTube

/ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,[…]

2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design:

There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.

(neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.

在線視頻網站 /在线视频网站

any website that allows users to upload content

Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,[…]

2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded:

Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?

2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver:

(neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.


YouTube

en-verb

YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)

YouTubes (present singular third-person)
YouTubing (participle present)
YouTubed (participle past)
YouTubed (past)

/ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.

2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle:

If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.

2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling:

(transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.


moonbattery

(informal, derogatory, Internet) The behaviour or attitudes of moonbats; left-wing lunacy.


hatnote

From hat + note by analogy with footnote, endnote, etc.

If a reader searches for dioxin, she arrives at this article. The too-long hatnote on this page probably befuddled many readers looking for the Wikipedia article Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 320:

A hatnote on this default page points readers to the disambiguation page if they're looking for articles using a different meaning of the term.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, page 237:

(wiki jargon) A short note placed at the top of an article, normally to provide links to other similarly named articles or disambiguation pages.


cybername

He signed in using his own cybername: Point Guard.

Your modem dials an 800 number a couple of times. Along the way, you'll be asked to make up a cybername for yourself...

2002, David Pogue, Flat screen iMac for dummies:

"Are the two of you going to stick to phony cybernames? Or shall I introduce you by your real ones?"

(Internet) A nickname used on the Internet or in cyberspace.


cybercowboy

...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...

1995, Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing masculinity:

Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy.

2001, Jim Sterne, World Wide Web marketing:


shoutbox

They avail themselves of multiple communicative platforms across the Internet: blogs, social networks, comments, discussion forums, private messages, shoutboxes, MP3 files, and videos.

2007, Nancy K. Baym, The new shape of online community: The example of Swedish independent music fandom:

Embed a shoutbox in your blog/website for your visitors to interact among themselves.

2010, Erika Blanchard, Appity Slap: A Small Business Guide to Web Apps, Tech Tools and Cloud Computing:


autojoin

en-noun

autojoin (countable and uncountable, plural autojoins)

(Internet, uncountable) A software feature that allows the user to join an IRC channel automatically (either on first connecting to the server or after being kicked).


SRB

(computing, Internet) Initialism of storage resource broker.


Napster

Named after Napster, a file-sharing system (not itself a website) that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3 audio files, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning, referring to his nappy-textured hair; hence nap + -ster.

(Internet) Any website that facilitates free distribution of data.


GIF

Translingual: .gif

(Internet, by extension) Any short video, in a format directly supported by HTML5 (ie. GIF, MP4, WebM)


cookieless

Cookieless sessions enable you to take advantage of session state without relying on browser cookies.

2004, Stephen Walther, ASP.NET unleashed:

(computing, Internet) Without the use of HTTP cookies.


adminhood

(Internet, rare) The state or period of being an admin.


pushlet

(Internet, rare) A push mechanism in which the Web server takes advantage of persistent HTTP connections and leaves the response unterminated so that it can continue to send information.


netcast

(Internet) A broadcast transmitted over the Internet, such as a podcast.


netcronym

(Internet, informal, rare) An acronym or initialism used on the Internet, such as LOL for "laugh out loud".


sitelet

Commerce Server 2002 does come with an auction sitelet, which is a less-than fully functional e-commerce site designed to demonstrate the use of Commerce Server's Auction object.

2002, Don Jones, Mark D Scott, Using Microsoft Commerce Server 2002:

2002, Art Directors Club (New York), Art directors annual
The intros and the sitelet make up a turn-of-the-new-century period piece that shows how very invisible high tech has become […]

The Sierra Club provides a sitelet called "Take Action" for information on such issues as global warming, energy, population, and responsible trade.

2003, Jenny Lynn Friedman, The busy family's guide to volunteering:

The Toyota Yaris sitelet incorporates animated features that encourage visitors to click through to learn more about the vehicle.

2008, Kim Baer, Jill Vacarra, Information Design Workbook:


autoresponder

(computing) A computer program that automatically sends a certain message or messages in response to incoming e-mail.


ad inventory

(Internet) The number of page views that a website receives.


DYSWIDT

Possibly from a catchphrase of British comedians Lee and Herring.

(Internet, informal) Initialism of do you see what I did there?: (used ironically to draw attention to wordplay, etc.)


listserve

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From LISTSERV (a trademark), the first electronic mailing list software application, launched in 1986.

This listserve actually is instrumental in providing me with some background and insights into topics of conversation — so it helps me to meet our students...

1996, Association for Asian Studies, Education about Asia:

What steps can an organization take to minimize liability for third-party communications in a listserve or other interactive forum?

2000, Elizabeth Kingsley, E-advocacy for nonprofits:

For example, if you are interested in IV therapy nursing, there is a listserve for IV therapy nurses...

2001, B Gayle Twiname, Sandra M Boyd, Student nurse handbook: difficult concepts made easy:

We will focus particularly on an analysis of participation on a listserve that the class utilized on an extended basis...

2004, Margaret R Hawkins, Language learning and teacher education: a sociocultural approach:

(Internet) An electronic mailing list using the medium of e-mail.


grilf

Deliberate error for girlf as an abbreviation of girlfriend.

(Internet, slang, humorous) A girlfriend.


Bing

(Internet) A search engine introduced by Microsoft in 2009.


anonymizer

(Internet) A software tool that attempts to make a user's Internet activity untraceable by acting as a proxy.


webspace

webspace (usually uncountable, plural webspaces)

Some Internet providers offer free webspace to subscribers.

(Internet) Disk space used to store web pages and other content that can be accessed through the World Wide Web.


IPU

Invisible Pink Unicorn
Invisible Pink Unicorn#English

(Internet, informal, humorous) Initialism of Invisible Pink Unicorn.


Habbo

(Internet, video games) A member of the social networking website Habbo.


MySpacer

Many MySpacers have at least a few celebrity names in their list […]

2007, Peter Buckley, Rough guide to MySpace and online communities:

When you sign up for the account and start building your network of fellow MySpacers, you are forced to put a limited number of them on your home screen.

To MySpacers the traditional idea of a 'work ethic' does not apply. Home is the only safe place to be (so many continue living with their parents).

2009, Nigel F Piercy, Nikala Lane, Strategic Customer Management: Strategizing the Sales Organization:

(Internet, informal) A member of the social networking website MySpace.


Google-fu

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From Google + -fu (suffix indicating expertise or mastery).

suffix

If you need to brush up on your Google-fu, check out Google Hacking for Penetration Testing from the talented and modest Johnny Long.

2006, Johnny Long, Max Moser, Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, Syngress, →ISBN, page 107:

... they think they have all the Google-fu they'll ever need ...

2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers... in the Library?!, ALA Editions, →ISBN, page 3:

Coworkers seek out my Googling abilities. My Google-Fu is strong.

2007, Ben Grabow, "Big Brother Is Watching You Google", Scripps Howard News Service, May 9, E. W. Scripps

... one thing that I did notice when I was doing a little google-fu on the issue is that there appears to be approximately 20 to 50 billion dollars spent by the federal government ...

2008 May 5, Kevin Drum, “Political Animal: Corporate Welfare in the Oil Patch”, in Washington Monthly:

Oh, dang, I blogged about this once and can't find my blog post now (anyone with better Google-fu than I want to help?)

2008 August 6, Robin Abrahams, “Miss Conduct Chat”, in The Boston Globe:

[Gary] Small suggests the inexperienced may register less brain activity because they haven't yet figured out the right strategies required to perform a successful search. In other words, their Google-fu is weak.

2008 October 16, Austin Modine, “Internet searches stimulate brain more than books: Assuming good Google-fu”, in The Register:

Kitty sighed. “It's worth looking into.” She pointed at the nearest computer. “Ed, I need your Googlefu.” Ed swung around and poised his fingers over the keyboard.

2015, Gretchen McNeil, Get Dirty, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

(informal) A skill in using search engines (especially Google) to quickly find useful information on the Internet.


search engine optimization

en-noun

search engine optimization (uncountable)

(Internet) The use of various techniques to improve the ranking of a website in search engines in the hopes of attracting more visitors.

搜索引擎優化 /搜索引擎优化

improvement of a web site's ranking in search engines

optymalizacja dla wyszukiwarek internetowych


subcookie

(computing, Internet, rare) A cookie-like piece of data stored with others in a single cookie (so as to circumvent restrictions on the number of cookies a single web site may create).


banhammer

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(Internet slang, often humorous) The power of a sysop to block a user from participating in an online community.


banhammer

en-verb

banhammer (third-person singular simple present banhammers, present participle banhammering, simple past and past participle banhammered)

banhammers (present singular third-person)
banhammering (participle present)
banhammered (participle past)
banhammered (past)

(Internet slang, transitive) To block a user from participating in an online community.


permabanned

(Internet, slang) Permanently banned from using a web site.


middlebox

(computing, networking, Internet) A device in the Internet that provides transport policy enforcement, such as a firewall.


web design

1996, Ruffin Prevost, The Web Design Style Guide: How to Create a Smash Hit Web Site, title:

Still others are firms already established in other creative sectors, which offer Web design services to their clients as part of their portfolio of services.

2000, Birgitte Andersen, Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy, page 72:

As relatively new as responsive web design is to us designers, it's even newer and often completely unfamiliar to our clients, which means we need to take every opportunity to weave in the concept.

2015, Dan Rose, Responsive Web Design with Adobe Photoshop, page 85:

The trade of a web designer; the creation of web pages, especially in terms of layout and presentation rather than functionality.


fanvid

(fandom slang, chiefly Internet) A fan-made video consisting of clips from a film or television series, usually set to music.


bloglike

en-adj

bloglike (comparative more bloglike, superlative most bloglike)

more bloglike (comparative)
most bloglike (superlative)

(Internet) Resembling or characteristic of a weblog.


cybercop

(Internet, slang, derogatory) A user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards.


ICQer

The problem, from a marketing standpoint, is the typical ICQer's anti-establishment ethos.

1999, Adweek, volume 40, numbers 1-8, page 42:

Doing something that should be as simple as making yourself invisible to other ICQers requires leaping through hoops and balancing flaming torches.

2005, Peter Weverka, The everyday Internet all-in-one desk reference for dummies:

2007?, Y K Singh, T K Sharma, Brijesh Upadhya, Education Technology: Teaching Learning
White Pages / Let you search for ICQers based on several criteria like name, e-mail, age, gender, language, interests, location, organization, etc.

(Internet) A user of the ICQ instant-messaging software.


netcop

Isn't the infamous "netcop" post that gets reposted here weekly your justification for continuing the discussion on news.admin, due to your interpretation of news.admin's charter?

1992 March 29, John Henders, “His friend and nobody else's, John Palmer!”, in alt.flame (Usenet):

(Internet, slang, derogatory) A user who attempts to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.


netcop

en-verb

netcop (third-person singular simple present netcops, present participle netcopping, simple past and past participle netcopped)

netcops (present singular third-person)
netcopping (participle present)
netcopped (participle past)
netcopped (past)

So I just skip over them, rather than netcopping every time I don't like the content. Any thread with 'jealousy' in the title doesn't even get a look, but perhaps I should start netcopping about how that has been done to death here, and I didn't even find it interesting or relevant to me the first time it was brought up?

1993 June 29, Brad Shapcott, “Age Of Consent”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

But what's the reason for netcopping this shit at all? What pisses you off about these posts? Spare me the bandwidth shibboleth (should we mod usenet as a whole? Then Who giveth bandwidth and who taketh it away?). I don't think you want to make a 'whataboutthechildren' type arguments either.

1994 February 13, Sourcerer, “Beat on the Brats”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet):

Mark, That Ken Ehrett was netcopped twice by yours truely, both as Ned Kelly and Insectus Pentius. He was probably kicked off the system. He underestimated MY wrath!

1996 December 13, Insectus Pentius, “Book- ADD: A Different Perception...”, in alt.support.attn-deficit (Usenet):

So who netcopped Gangle? Well I think it was none other than (drum roll please!) cat daddy. And didn't he set it up beautifully!!! As the coup de grace on the little flame war and intense dislike that he and I have cultivated here on this very group, what better way to gain a "breast beating" position than to netcop Gangle and then say "Look! he did it!"

1999 October 14, Oxford Systems, “Who netcopped Gangle? Who stood to benefit from the controversy?”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet):

Normally people do not act like you, you are a special case as everyone can see. When it comes to calling Mexicans "Wetbacks" and calling people with an illness "Dick Suckers", your damn right I will netcop you. And as I can see, I'm not the only one who is netcoping you huh? Obviously people are getting frustrated with your offensive behavior. Contribute something positive to the group at least, can you do that?

2001 October 6, Ron, “Ronny the hypocrite changes his tune”, in alt.consumers.free-stuff (Usenet):

I can't believe you netcopped him for that. Plenty of other people swear in this group, and you just decided to pick on him for some reason. You are so full of it Bob, you have the worst, meanest, most unproductive attitude of almost anyone in this group and yet you decide to pick on him.

2002 May 17, endus, “Is hockey stop possible on asphalt”, in rec.sport.skating.inline (Usenet):

That is most definitely Not True. This newsgroup is unmoderated, but *fiercely* netcopped. The discussion is extremely wide-ranging, but there are a few things that are Not Allowed by the Charter.

2004 November 15, -^-^spectrum-^^-, “The soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm FAQ list (Part 0 of 7)”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet):

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, slang, derogatory) To call out, criticize or complain about (someone or something), especially when attempting to enforce netiquette or other standards, especially on Usenet.


microcontent

(Internet) Any small piece of content removed from its original context, such as a summary snippet in a page of search results.


clickjacking

Blend of click + hijacking, coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen in 2008.

New 0-Day Browser Exploits Clickjacking - yea, this is bad... Jeremiah Grossman & Robert "RSnake" Hansen

2008 September 12, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, “OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference”, in OWASP, archived from the original on 2016-09-13:

Clickjacking, however, evades the need for this cross domain reading, and instead directly places the mouse over the target area to click on the link or form that contains the nonce - thereby bypassing the need for client side cross domain read exploitation.

2008 September 12, Robert Hansen, Jeremiah Grossman, “Clickjacking”, in SecTheory - Internet Security Services Internet Security, archived from the original on 2008-10-29:

(computing, web development) A malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus causing them to execute commands they did not intend.


work-safe

en-adj

work-safe (comparative more work-safe, superlative most work-safe)

more work-safe (comparative)
most work-safe (superlative)

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(Internet) That can be viewed from one's workplace without the risk of disciplinary action; not graphic or offensive.


digital service provider

en-noun

digital service provider (plural digital service providers)

digital service providers (plural)
DSP (abbreviation)

(Internet) A company that provides an outlet to distribute media online.


postcount

For quotations using this term, see Citations:postcount.

(Internet) Post count; the number of messages written by a user on an internet forum or message board.


tetherless

(Internet, computing) wireless; pertaining to a wireless network


Web 1.0

The relationship of Web 1.0 to the Web of tomorrow is roughly the equivalence of Pong to The Matrix.

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

The original internet boom of the late 1990s, what you might think of as web 1.0, was a time of great stock-market valuations that created a few enduring companies and a lot of dead dot-coms.

2022 May 5, Farhad Manjoo, “What Is Happening to the People Falling for Crypto and NFTs”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet) The first generation of the World Wide Web, characterized by separate static websites rather than continually-updated weblogs and social networking tools.


downvote

(Internet, Reddit) A vote against something that reduces a cumulative tally of popularity.


downvote

en-verb

downvote (third-person singular simple present downvotes, present participle downvoting, simple past and past participle downvoted)

downvotes (present singular third-person)
downvoting (participle present)
downvoted (participle past)
downvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote against, reducing a cumulative tally of popularity.


upvote

(Internet, Reddit) A vote for something that increases a cumulative tally of popularity.


upvote

upvote (third-person singular simple present upvotes, present participle upvoting, simple past and past participle upvoted)

upvotes (present singular third-person)
upvoting (participle present)
upvoted (participle past)
upvoted (past)

(transitive, Internet, Reddit) To vote for, increasing a cumulative tally of popularity.


nonblog

Not of or pertaining to a blog (a weblog on the Internet).


blogmaster

From blog + master, modelled on webmaster.

Ms. Marcotte joined the Edwards campaign at the end of January in the new post of blogmaster.

2007 February 7, John M. Broder, “Edwards’s Bloggers Cross the Line, Critic Says”, in New York Times:

(rare, Internet) One who maintains or works on the upkeep of a blog.


xyr

As far as I'm concerned the constitution should be re-written so that anyone capable of being elected is ushered into a hidden room upon inauguration, where a secret panel of the Illuminati (preferably one chaired by me) beat xyr to death with blunt instruments and replace xyr by a Stepford Politician.

1996 September 12, Thomas Russo, “Re: Intelligent Women are an endangered Species”, in soc.singles (Usenet), message-ID <RUSSO.96Sep12163146@slug.swcp.com>:

Give it to xyr (after preposition)

I wrote xyr an e-mail (indirect object)

I haven't met xyr (direct object)

(nonstandard, personal, chiefly Internet) The form of xe used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc; similar usage to him/her.


supernet

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(computing, Internet) An IP network formed from two or more networks (or subnets) with a common CIDR routing prefix.


cybercast

(Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.


SDCH

(Internet) Initialism of Shared Dictionary Compression over HTTP: a compression technique for the World Wide Web.


Twitterati

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For amusing one-liners, news, and water-cooler chatter about Palin from the Twitterati, please keep checking in on our "McCain VP Watch" Twitter widget on our blog to the right.

2008 September 3, Sarah Lai Stirland, “Sarah Palin's Campaign Debut Electrifies the GOP, Galvanizes The Twitterati”, in Wired:

Fire-starters weren’t the only ones at work that night. The Twitterati were also in full force.

2009 June 8, Elina Shatkin, “Taco Zone truck attacked in Echo Park, as told by Twitter”, in Los Angeles Times:

Sitting in the courtroom […], their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times — the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.

2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times:

Queen Elizabeth II may not have been amused, but the Twitterati certainly were.

2018 July 14, Sarah Mervosh, “Trump Walks in Front of Queen Elizabeth, Causing Social Media Frenzy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal) People, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.


permathread

Since this is something of a permathread on this list I though ^([sic]) this would be of interest:

2003, jbritt, “von Rossum on Strong vs. Weak Typing”, in comp.lang.ruby (Usenet):

I suspect that this is a permathread.

2003, David Megginson, “Studying up on VOR's”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet):

(Internet, slang) A permanent or perennial thread of discussion.


hashtag

→ German: Hashtag

→ Japanese: ハッシュタグ (hasshutagu)

→ Polish: hashtag

→ Russian: хеште́г (xɛštɛ́g)

→ Ukrainian: геште́ґ (heštég)

From earlier hash tag, from hash (sign) + tag. The hash sign # was initially proposed as tag hash by Chris Messina to create groups on Twitter, modeled after the IRC channel prefix. First published use as hash tag by Stowe Boyd in 2007.

I support the hash tag convention: http://tinyurl.com/2qttlb #hashtag #factoryjoe #twitter

2007 Aug 25, Stowe Boyd, tweet, https://twitter.com/stoweboyd/status/226570552

You can also search for a hashtag by typing a topic (without the #) in the search box and clicking Search.

2009, Paul McFedries, Pete Cashmore, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets:

While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.

2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring:

The planes are moving into position. The foreign ministers of minor Arab states are taking calls on their cell-phones from Western politicians. Twitter accounts explode around the Libyan hash-tag.

2011, Rory Stewart, “Here we go again”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:

(Internet) A metadata tag, signaled by a preceding hash sign (#), used to label content.

I sound like a shitty mother and wife. Or at the very least an inadequate wife and ungrateful mother–which is in stark contrast to the image I try to portray on Instagram. Hashtag happy life. Hashtag beautiful family. Hashtag blessed.

2016, Emily Giffin, First Comes Love: A Novel, New York City: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 40:

You're perpetually stoned, aren't you? Hashtag four twenty four seven.

2018, John Allison, By Night, volume 1, Los Angeles, CA: Boom! Box, →ISBN, page n.p.:

The Occam’s razor explanation is that he’s just hashtag-blessed with the kind of lustrous lashes that many people spend a lot of money (and rack up a lot of Sephora Beauty Insider points) trying to get.

2024 July 31, Heather Schwedel, Is J.D. Vance Wearing Eyeliner?:

(Internet, metonymically, informal) The hash sign itself, when used as part of a hashtag.


hashtag

hashtag (third-person singular simple present hashtags, present participle hashtagging, simple past and past participle hashtagged)

hashtags (present singular third-person)
hashtagging (participle present)
hashtagged (participle past)
hashtagged (past)

The photo-sharing site was riddled with fake accounts that liked, followed and hashtagged out the wazoo. Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that plague much of the web.”

2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post:

(transitive, intransitive, Internet) To label (a message) with a hashtag.


social media

en-noun

social media (countable and uncountable, plural social medias)

The early 21st century saw a huge increase in social media thanks to the widespread availability of the Internet.

"By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it."

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

I grow weary when I think of this as the new normal for what is considered to be a fruitful personal life. Social media is no longer a mere public extension of our private socialization; it has become a replacement for it.

2019 October 1, Bianca Vivion Brooks, “I Used to Fear Being a Nobody. Then I Left Social Media.”, in New York Times:

On social media, everyone believes that anyone to whom they have access owes them an audience: a writer who posted a take, a celebrity who announced a project, a pretty girl just trying to live her life, that anon who said something afflictive.

2022 November 10, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Social Media Is Ending”, in The Atlantic:

(uncountable) Applications or websites allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet.


KSI

key set identifier
key set identifier#English

(Internet) Initialism of key set identifier.


e-mail

e-mail (countable and uncountable, plural e-mails)

I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 262:

She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman.

2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 57:


e-mail

en-verb

e-mail (third-person singular simple present e-mails, present participle e-mailing, simple past and past participle e-mailed)

e-mails (present singular third-person)
e-mailing (participle present)
e-mailed (participle past)
e-mailed (past)


wedsite

A website dedicated to sharing information about a particular wedding.


DAU

(Internet, marketing) Initialism of daily active user.


magic word

/ˌmædʒɪk ˈwɜːd/

Coordinate term: magic number

The header consists of an optional self-execution script, a magic word, a version number, and the word offset of the first instruction, relative to the magic word.

2021, Clinton L. Jeffery, Build Your Own Programming Language, page 273:

One of the magic words used in the MediaWiki software is __NOTOC__, which hides the table of contents that would normally be on the page.

(computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.


spriting

(Internet) The technique of storing multiple images in a single larger image so that they load more quickly into a web page.


fauxtography

/fəʊˈtɒɡɹəfi/

/fəʊˈtɑɡɹəfi/

Coined by webloggers around the time of the July 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War in Lebanon in criticism of the manipulated images of the conflict published by journalistic outlets: blend of faux and photography; compare fauxtograph. (This term is attested prior to July 2006, chiefly in use for company names, without an established meaning, and probably coined independently.)

Also, fauxtography, coined by bloggers writing about the Israel–Lebanon conflict in summer 2006 to describe both the deceptive modification of pictures by newswire photojournalists and the intentional staging of tragic scenes for propagandistic photos in the media.

2006, The New Atlantis, numbers 12-14, Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, page 146:

Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters’ photo coverage of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.

2007 November 5, Aaron Peckham, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 103, →ISBN:

2007 November 28, Cynthia Baron, Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography, main title (illustrated edition; Course Technology Printer; →ISBN, 9781598634051)

Bloggers noted that when, in February 2005, California’s Barbara Boxer gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, she held in her hands notes that were a printout from BradDeLong.com, the eponymous blog by a professor of economics at UC, Berkeley. Conversely, mainstream photojournalism was shaken to its core by right-wing bloggers who pointed out errors, malfeasance, inconsistencies, miscaptions, and outright fakery in press “fauxtography” from the 2006 Israel–Lebanon war.

2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xiii, →ISBN:

(chiefly Internet) Misleading presentation of images for propagandistic or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, or the addition or omission of significant context.


seiso

en-adjective

seiso (comparative more seiso, superlative most seiso)

more seiso (comparative)
most seiso (superlative)

From Japanese 清楚(せいそ) (seiso, “clean, tidy”).

I thought Pekora was a pure seiso girl. How could she retweet this?

i’ve been streaming for a while and i’m pretty seiso. i don’t enjoy top/bottom jokes or being lewd in general although being slightly sexy is okay.

(VTuber fandom slang) Pure, proper, and wholesome, especially in the sense of being non-sexual.


outway

That is, the "internal junctions" of various classical models will not be distinguished from the outways of the net; alternatively, every element outway could be a net outway.

1970, B Beizer, “Towards a new theory of sequential switching networks”, in IEEE Transactions on Computers:

A parallel multiplier could theoretically be realized as a two-level multiple-outway combinational network, but its cost would be prohibitive.

1975, AR Meo, IEEE Transactions on Computers:

Another object is to provide a communication system which provides for two-way communication between a central station and one or more outway stations wherein the outway stations are both controlled and powered by radiant energy directed thereto from the central station

1987, JH Lemelson, Communication system and method (US Patent 4,710,977):

(Internet) The path outbound from the LAN (Local Area Network) to the WAN (Wide Area Network).


RHIP

(military, Internet) Initialism of "rank has its privilege" or "rank hath its privileges".


hostmaster

(Internet) A person responsible for managing domain name records within the Domain Name System or any individual computer (typically a server).


Blogistan

From c. 2001 (see quotations), formed from blog + -stan.

Blogistan is a newer coinage, appearing after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. By attacking to blog the suffix -stan, which means "land" or "place of" in Farsi and related languages, the word successfully conveys the idea that blogs in Blogistan are concerned with matters in the Stans, among them Afghanistan and Pakistan.

[2006, Grant Barrett, “Tongue in Groove: The Blogistan Lexicon”, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang:

Blogs of Iran (where the suffix -stan originated) and nearby regions.


IG

Rap bitches tell their team: "Make em like Barbie" / Had to come off IG so they can't stalk me

2018, Nicki Minaj, "Barbie Tingz", Queen (Target version)

One day I was lurkin' on IG, thirsty, full of the purple

2020, Moneybagg Yo, “Match My Fly”, in Time Served:

Face ID on me, white programmer so they don’t see it’s me / Got fans on me, IG story, know where I be

2021, “On Me”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:


greylist

(Internet) A technique for blocking spam (junk e-mail) by temporarily rejecting mail from unknown senders. A legitimate sender is likely to try sending again after a delay.


cyberlocker

These services offered free online cyberlockers with a capacity of twenty-five CDs...

2006, Patrick Burkart, Tom McCourt, Digital music wars: ownership and control of the celestial jukebox:

He talks about "cyberlockers" – online digital storage – which he acknowledges have perfectly legal uses, but which he says are also used by people to share files illegally.

2009 November 20, Charles Arthur, “Why are cyberlockers suddenly such a problem, Lord Mandelson?”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) An Internet resource for the storage of personal digital files.


tagholder

Some co.uk domains, including mine, now display a "Trading as..." line. Does this perhaps indicate that the reg-type field is set, and is set to something other than IND? What are the possible values for the field? My tagholder doesn't show it in the control panel as yet.

2002, Philomena, “Nominet WHOIS”, in alt.internet.providers.uk (Usenet):

Now, if they weren't members and tagholders, each of those domains would be costing them around GBP70. I'll leave you to do the maths on that one.

2002, Adam D. Barratt, “AceInternet”, in alt.internet.providers.uk (Usenet):

(Internet, historical) Formerly, any domain registrar serving the .uk top-level domain.


SPARQL

(computer languages, Internet) SPARQL protocol and RDF query language (a recursive acronym), a semantic Web technology.


retweet

en-verb

retweet (third-person singular simple present retweets, present participle retweeting, simple past and past participle retweeted)

retweets (present singular third-person)
retweeting (participle present)
retweeted (participle past)
retweeted (past)

Because your messages will be relevant to them, they are much more likely to retweet your messages and recommend that other people follow you on Twitter.

2009, Geert Conard, Friends with Benefits, Networking in a New Economy:

(Twitter) To repost or forward another user's message on the microblogging social networking website Twitter.


retweet

You know it's an iPhone or iPad app, but those new to you, who came via a retweet or Twitter search, may not know which platform your app supports.

2011, Dave Wooldridge, Michael Schneider, The Business of iPhone and iPad App Development, page 339:

According to Stewart's analysis, current case law makes it unlikely a retweeter would be held liable for a defamatory retweet […]

2013, Daxton Stewart, Social Media and the Law, page 42:

The sheer density of information and misinformation at the End, encapsulated in news articles and message-board theories and clickbait traps that had propagated hysterically through retweets and shares, had effectively rendered us more ignorant, more helpless, more innocent in our stupidity.

2018, Ling Ma, chapter 2, in Severance, →ISBN:

(Twitter) A message reposted or forwarded in this way.


chatlog

(Internet) A log of an online chat between users or between a user and one or more chatbots.


banner blindness

Coined by Jan Panero Benway and David M. Lane for their 1998 paper Banner Blindness: The Irony of Attention Grabbing on the World Wide Web

While consumers learned to develop "banner blindness" when performing keyword queries on search engines,[…]

2004, Catherine Seda, Search engine advertising: buying your way to the top to increase sales:

A tendency to ignore banner ads and similar-looking banners on websites.

bannerisokeus

desensitization to attention-attracting means

nevospriimčivostʹ k reklamnym obʺjavlenijam

невосприимчивость к рекламным объявлениям


permalink

(Internet) A permanent (unchanging) link to an individual blog entry or news item on the World Wide Web.


permalink

permalink (third-person singular simple present permalinks, present participle permalinking, simple past and past participle permalinked)

permalinks (present singular third-person)
permalinking (participle present)
permalinked (participle past)
permalinked (past)

(Internet, transitive) To create a permalink to.


tweetup

A meeting in person organised on the social networking web site Twitter.


whiteboarding

(Internet) A collaborative discussion over the Internet in which participants can write and draw on a shared space resembling a whiteboard.


fwd

fwd (third-person singular simple present fwds, present participle fwding, simple past and past participle fwded)

fwds (present singular third-person)
fwding (participle present)
fwded (participle past)
fwded (past)


pingback

(Internet) A message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger.


mystery meat navigation

Reportedly coined in 1998 by Web designer Vincent Flanders.

(informal, derogatory, Internet) A system of navigation on a website in which the user cannot immediately determine the target of any hyperlink but has to interact with it in some way (such as hovering with the mouse).


unfavorite

unfavorite (third-person singular simple present unfavorites, present participle unfavoriting, simple past and past participle unfavorited)

unfavorites (present singular third-person)
unfavoriting (participle present)
unfavorited (participle past)
unfavorited (past)

How do I unfavorite a tweet?

(Internet, transitive) To remove from one’s list of favorites.


reblog

reblog (third-person singular simple present reblogs, present participle reblogging, simple past and past participle reblogged)

reblogs (present singular third-person)
reblogging (participle present)
reblogged (participle past)
reblogged (past)

(transitive, Internet) To blog something previously posted on another blog, in particular to share a post on a microblogging platform.

rebloggen

to blog something previously posted on another blog


reblog

My controversial post got thousands of reblogs within a week.

(Internet) The reposting of something previously posted on another blog.


squit

squit (third-person singular simple present squits, present participle squitting, simple past and past participle squitted)

squits (present singular third-person)
squitting (participle present)
squitted (participle past)
squitted (past)

[…] these problems solved themselves atfter^([sic]) some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring^([sic]) into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.

1994, Bernhard Lorenz, “ChanOp for Irc Opers”, in alt.irc (Usenet):

Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.

1996, Jesse, “A warning to all irc users”, in alt.irc (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.


offlist

I am interested in the following dedicated/co-location services. Please send me an offlist quote for a leased or purchased server with the following points detailed.

2001, Bruce Lewin, “Dedicated/Co-Location Windows Server (Please reply offlist!)”, in alt.internet.providers.uk (Usenet):

Perhaps some of that can be attributed to all the offlist chatter (of which I am not a part at all).

2007, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Living on Cybermind: categories, communication, and control:

(Internet) Not on a mailing list or newsgroup.


offlist

If you are interested, please reply offlist.


ratioed

(neologism, Twitter) Having significantly more replies than retweets or likes, indicating general dislike by the public.

(neologism, Twitter) Having received a reply that garnered more likes than the original tweet.


URN

uniform resource name
uniform resource name#English

(Internet) Initialism of uniform resource name.


crapplet

(computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality applet.


CYLOR

Initialism of consult your local Orthodox rabbi.

(Judaism, Internet) Used to encourage the addressee to rely upon his rabbi's, rather than others', answers to questions of religious import.

RTFM

encouraging appeal to a specific better source


linkrot

From link (“hyperlink”) + rot (“process of becoming rotten”).

compound

It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has “billions of books and no central filing system.”

2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

(Internet) The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.


MSIE

Microsoft Internet Explorer
w:en:Microsoft Internet Explorer

(Internet) Initialism of Microsoft Internet Explorer, a web browser