fakemail

The most common misuses of e-mail are fakemail and spam. Fakemail is the act of sending an e-mail that appears to be from another individual.

2001, Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, Incident Response: Investigating Computer Crime, page 451:

Fakemail is any e-mail that has been falsely created or altered in some manner. It is often used as a method to hide the source address in spamming.

2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49):

(Internet) Email whose sender or other information has been faked.


photoblogging

One common trend in image tagging research is to focus on visually relevant tags, and this tends to ignore the personal and social aspect of tags, especially on photoblogging websites such as Flickr.

2016, Amandianeze O. Nwana, Tsuhan Chen, “QUOTE: "Querying" Users as Oracles in Tag Engines - A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Personalized Image Tagging”, in arXiv:

(Internet) The use of a blog to showcase photographs.


linklist

However, other issues, such as quality control, authenticity and authorship are often not as clearly defined as with traditional sources, so that linklists compiled by tutors for their courses are a way to ensure the quality of at least the initial access to information on the Internet.

2003, Nicolae Nistor, Toward the Virtual University, page 207:

In addition, they usally^([sic]) also contain very useful annotated linklists that help to bushwack through the WWW.

2000, Klaus Robering, Information Technology for the Virtual Museum:

Consists of a system for managing one's blog. In other words, blogroll is a linklist manager. It allows bloggers to add or delete favorite links in a list at the side of their blog page.

2009, Lawrence A. Tomei, Lexicon of Online and Distance Learning, page 33:


cybersquat

en-verb

cybersquat (third-person singular simple present cybersquats, present participle cybersquatting, simple past and past participle cybersquatted)

cybersquats (present singular third-person)
cybersquatting (participle present)
cybersquatted (participle past)
cybersquatted (past)


OFN

(Internet, text) Initialism of old fucking news.


growth hacker

Josh Elman, a growth hacker at Twitter, recognized early on that it was possible to "focus on understanding your users and how they discover and adopt your products [and to] build features that help you acquire and retain more users, rather than just spending marketing dollars."

2013 July 8, Ryan Holiday, “The Secret That Defines Marketing Now”, in Fast Company:

(Internet, marketing) Someone who is skilled in both marketing and programming, and utilises these skills to grow the userbase of a startup.


memescape

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A notional landscape of memes, or units of cultural information.


submirror

(Internet) A secondary or subsidiary mirror.


e-currency

en-noun

e-currency (countable and uncountable, plural e-currencies)

digital currency
digital currency#English


cybercurrency

cybercurrency (countable and uncountable, plural cybercurrencies)

Remember electronic cash, digital dollars or cybercurrency? The conventional wisdom three years ago was that consumers would never use their credit card numbers on the Internet. So in order for electronic commerce to thrive, highly secure digital money schemes were needed.

1999, Network World, volume 16, number 15, page 47:

The emergence of cybercurrency as a future medium of exchange raises a number of new enforcement issues as well as questions of whether reporting requirements would need to be redesigned […]

2000, Delbert Rounds, International Criminal Justice: Issues in a Global Perspective, page 36:


cyberoptimism

(Internet) The belief that computer technology and the Internet will have positive effects on society.


cyberpessimism

(Internet) The belief that computer technology and the Internet will have negative effects on society.


visible Web

(computing, Internet) Synonym of Surface Web


tweetless

The senator has been tweetless since last weekend […]

2009 September 10, Gail Collins, “So Much for Civility”, in New York Times:


multiposter

But then there were requests from the Group to show the posters in alphabetical order. This made sense as it made weeding out any new multiposters a lot easier.

2002, Reg Hems, “Xmas Roundup Group”, in argonet.zfc (Usenet):


TypeScript

Blend of type (“value constraint”) + JavaScript.

blend

programming language
programming language

(scripting language) A scripting programming language that is a strongly-typed superset of JavaScript.


googology

According to googology, Prince Charles is the anti-christ. Look it up.

2001 August 23, Edvins Augusts, “Pete Phoenix, are you English?”, in alt.astrology (Usenet):

Scroll down to 'googology 101' and 'googology 201', searching and advanced searching.

2003 May 21, Chakolate, “Dr. Phil and Menopause”, in alt.support.menopause (Usenet):

and now for some comparative googology […]

2006 May 29, kurt wismer, “Re: Rootkit?”, in alt.comp.virus (Usenet):

(humorous, colloquial) The Internet search engine Google, or the use of it to find out information.


headless browser

en-noun

headless browser (plural headless browsers)

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet) A web browser without a graphical user interface.


pastebin

For example, if you're stuck with a piece of code or you just want to show off how awesome something you wrote is, then you can paste it into the pastebin and it will give you a link to share with other people. Pastebins usually have built-in […]

2013, Callum Macrae, Learning from jQuery, page 100:

Some pastebins even include syntax highlighting for common programming languages. This can be an appealing advantage when constructing an email with source code in it, or multiple attached log files, […]

2015, Ernesto Damiani, Fulvio Frati, Dirk Riehle, Open Source Systems: Adoption and Impact:

(Internet) A website allowing users to store plain text, so that they can refer to it with a simple hyperlink rather than having to paste the entire text elsewhere.


navbox

The editor created a navbox containing links related to football.

The general architecture allows for such a constraint to be validated from any source which mentions the two entities, including tables, list pages, navboxes, and perhaps wikified newswire articles [5,6].

2009, Iustin Dornescu, "Semantic QA for Encyclopaedic Questions: EQUAL in GikiCLEF" in Peters, C. et al., Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I: Text Retrieval Experiments, p. 330

The page analyzer then extracts existing data in Navboxes.

2015, Sedigheh Khalatbari, Seyed Mirroshandel, Automatic Construction of Domain Ontology Using Wikipedia and Enhancing it by Google Search Engine, page 252:

We introduce a novel dataset capturing the visual position of all links between articles of the English Wikipedia (including also templates, infoboxes/sidebars, and navboxes) based on their fine-grained screen coordinates […]

2016, D. Dimitrov, P. Singer, F. Lemmerich, “Visual Positions of Links and Clicks on Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web, page 27:

(wiki jargon) A navigation box; a template placed on a page, outputting a box containing links to other, related articles.


offlineable

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(Internet, software, very rare) Capable of being used offline to some degree.


series of tubes

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Coined by American politician Ted Stevens in 2006 to describe the Internet in the context of opposing network neutrality, the phrase was widely ridiculed and began to be used satirically.

coin

(Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.


Twitterdom

(Internet slang) The world or sphere of Twitter (the microblogging service).


vblog

en-verb

vblog (third-person singular simple present vblogs, present participle vblogging, simple past and past participle vblogged)

vblogs (present singular third-person)
vblogging (participle present)
vblogged (participle past)
vblogged (past)


Internet famous

en-adj

Internet famous (comparative more Internet famous, superlative most Internet famous)

more Internet famous (comparative)
most Internet famous (superlative)

(informal) Famous in the context of the Internet.


framee

(Internet) A person whose web pages are misleadingly embedded in another person's site by means of HTML frames.


PeeCee

A respelling along the lines of eye dialect, perhaps further intensified by spelling association with peewee.

personal computer
personal computer#English

(Internet, derogatory) PC (personal computer)


snapchat

en-verb

snapchat (third-person singular simple present snapchats, present participle snapchatting, simple past and past participle snapchatted)

snapchats (present singular third-person)
snapchatting (participle present)
snapchatted (participle past)
snapchatted (past)

(Internet) Alternative letter-case form of Snapchat


Snapchat

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(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.


Snapchat

(Internet, social media) A user account on Snapchat.

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

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

(Internet, social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.


Snapchat

Snapchat (third-person singular simple present Snapchats, present participle Snapchatting, simple past and past participle Snapchatted)

Snapchats (present singular third-person)
Snapchatting (participle present)
Snapchatted (participle past)
Snapchatted (past)

She Snapchatted me all the details from the hairdresser, including a selfie of her crying when the job was totally done.

2017, Norah Olson, “5/6, afternoon”, in Before Now, New York, N.Y.: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:

He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.

2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 100:

(Internet, social media, ditransitive, intransitive) To send a message on Snapchat.


autogreet

An example of a more subtle indiscretion is using an "autogreet". This involves automatically sending a 'hello' message to everyone on a channel whenever you join (the IRC Primer warns against creating an autogreet, stating that "even if you think you are being polite, you are actually sounding insincere and also interfering with the personal environment of the recipient" (Pioch 1993:2)).

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

DON'T use autogreets, or automatic messaging, to say "Hello" and "Goodbye" automatically as people enter or leave the channel. They get old, and you may not really mean what you say.

1997, Noel Estabrook, Bill Vernon, Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours, page 136:

(Internet) A greeting issued automatically in a chat room, etc. when a user joins.


Web Ontology Language

en-noun

Web Ontology Language (plural Web Ontology Languages)

(computing, Internet) A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web


WAI

Web Accessibility Initiative
w:Web Accessibility Initiative

(Internet) Initialism of Web Accessibility Initiative (effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web for people with disabilities)


transload

en-verb

transload (third-person singular simple present transloads, present participle transloading, simple past and past participle transloaded)

transloads (present singular third-person)
transloading (participle present)
transloaded (participle past)
transloaded (past)

You may have transloaded the image file to the same server as your Web page, or you may be linking directly to its location in a graphics collection.

2000, Brad Hill, WebTV For Dummies, page 235:

(transitive, Internet, rare) To download, upload, or copy a file from one location to another.


callback hell

However, the use of callbacks can lead to a maintainability issue known as callback hell. We will now write a real-life example to showcase what a callback hell is and how easily we can end up dealing with it.

2015, Remo H. Jansen, Learning TypeScript:

(programming, colloquial) (mostly of the JavaScript language) The situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks several levels deep, potentially making it difficult to understand and maintain the code.


MTA

message transfer agent
w:message transfer agent

(Internet) Initialism of message transfer agent.


self-hosting

I believe self-hosting has several advantages for indie hackers and developers like myself.

2024 November 4, Anthony Sidashin, “Self-hosted is awesome”, in Pixeljets:

(Internet) Web hosting on one's own servers, without the use of a third party.


MeFi

(Internet, informal) MetaFilter, a general-interest community weblog featuring links to content that users have discovered on the World Wide Web.


query string

The site works when we visit example.com/q, but fails when we visit example.com/q?name=Smith. There must be a problem processing the query string.

(Internet) A sequence of data appended to a URL to supply input parameters in the form of name-value pairs.


unfollower

(Internet) One who unfollows another user.


linkification

From link + -ification or linkify + -ication.

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


pagewide

Applying styles to the <body> tag using the body selector enables you to apply pagewide settings.

2015, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Jennifer Kyrnin, HTML, CSS & JavaScript Web Publishing in One Hour a Day:


Photoshop

Photoshop (third-person singular simple present Photoshops, present participle Photoshopping, simple past and past participle Photoshopped)

Photoshops (present singular third-person)
Photoshopping (participle present)
Photoshopped (participle past)
Photoshopped (past)

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Renamed by its cocreator Thomas Knoll, from photo + shop.

Almost as if the building has been Photoshopped for greater sharpness while the rest of the block retains a fuzzier contrast.

2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 184:

(transitive, Internet) Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph”).


webstore

(Internet) A sales outlet which supplies goods or services over the World Wide Web.

webwinkel

a sales outlet which supplies goods or services over the World Wide Web


LOD

en-noun

LOD (countable and uncountable, plural LODs)

While most LOD metadata employs multiple vocabularies and metadata schemas for description, for the sake of simplicity this exploration of RDF will use only a single metadata schema, Dublin Core.

2013, Erik T. Mitchell, Library Linked Data: Research and Adoption, →ISBN, page 15:

LOD (Linked Open Data) is an international endeavor to interlink structured data on the Web and create the Web of Data on a global level. In this paper, we report about our experience of applying existing LOD frameworks, most of which are designed to run only in European language environments, to Korean resources to build linked data.

2013, Hideaki Takeda, Yuzhong Qu, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Semantic Technology, →ISBN:

The LOD Cloud is a collection of the available datasets of the Semantic Web.

2014, Janusz Sobecki, Veera Boonjing, Suphamit Chittayasothorn, Advanced Approaches to Intelligent Information and Database Systems, →ISBN:

(Internet) Initialism of linked open data.


Internetphobia

As to the Internetphobia from your shop owner, I wonder if it is a fear of losing business to Internet merchants? OTOH, it could be just an extension of the computerphobia many people have.

1996 April 24, OneMTHead, “Re: Local Store Upset”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), message-ID <4llq1q$hse@newsbf02.news.aol.com>:


buddy list

(Internet) A user's list of contacts on an instant messaging system.


sharenting

desc

Russian: ше́рентинг m (šérenting, “sharenting”)

Blend of share + parenting, coined by researchers at the University of Michigan.

Others feel that the advantages of sharenting far outweigh any negatives. In an increasingly fragmented society, social media allows us to stay connected to friends and family, and get support that for many is not easily accessible.

2013 May 18, Nione Meakin, “The pros and cons of 'sharenting'”, in The Guardian:

Then there’s “sharenting.” Today, many children’s social media presence starts with a sonogram, posted, obviously, without consent.

2019 June 5, Anya Kamenetz, “The Problem With ‘Sharenting’”, in The New York Times:

On a philosophical level, sharenting exposes children to the larger digital world without their consent, robbing them of a kind of agency.

2019 September 11, Hua Hsu, “Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of 'Sharenting'”, in The New Yorker:

(neologism) The practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

the practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

szülői túlposztolás (from túl- and posztol)


half-op

(Internet) An IRC channel operator with limited privileges, unable for example to promote other users to operator status.


Slashdot effect

en-noun

Slashdot effect (plural Slashdot effects)

After Slashdot, a web site that commonly links to other, smaller sites, which can cause the eponymous effect.

(Internet) The phenomenon whereby a site is overwhelmed by traffic after being linked to by a site with a larger audience.


Stormfronter

Somebody who frequents the white supremacist web site Stormfront.


Sass

style sheet language
style sheet language#English

(web design) Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (a style sheet language)


man-in-the-browser

(attributive, Internet) A form of Internet security threat, a proxy Trojan horse that infects a web browser and covertly modifies web pages or transactions.


dank meme

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Born too late to explore the Earth; born too soon to explore the galaxy; born just in time to browse dank memes

I should warn you that I could not identify a ‘dank meme’ if the fate of the working class depended on it and that I shall not be ‘shipping’ Lenin and Trotsky. If I tried to speak your marvellous language, I would produce sentences like, […]

2017, Helen Razer, Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:

(Internet, slang, often ironic) An Internet meme with a humorously tongue-in-cheek tone derived from gaudy or surreal aesthetics.

(Internet, slang, derogatory) A usually overused meme, especially one which is overly ironic or offensive; a meme which is popular among unfavorable circles.


Tumblrina

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From Tumblr with feminine suffix as in ballerina.

Coordinate term: Tinderella

social justice warrior
social justice warrior

(derogatory, Internet slang, neologism) A female user of the Tumblr microblogging service, typically stereotyped as a social justice warrior.


micropost

This prevents userless microposts from being stranded in the database when admins choose to remove users from the system.

2013, Michael Hartl, Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, page 443:


inlink

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


outlink

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


multitable

en-verb

multitable (third-person singular simple present multitables, present participle multitabling, simple past and past participle multitabled)

multitables (present singular third-person)
multitabling (participle present)
multitabled (participle past)
multitabled (past)

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(Internet poker) To play in multiple tables simultaneously.


freemail

Blend of free + email, or the compound free + mail.

Employees might start a freemail account to exchange off-color jokes or distribute their resumes.

1999, Microtimes, numbers 199-201, page 57:

In theory, you can establish a freemail account that will endure whether you change jobs or Internet service providers. But most freemail sites limit the amount of mail you can store, so delete old and unwanted messages […]

1999, Michael Shapiro, Internet Travel Planner: How to Plan Trips and Save Money Online:

Even if you have no intention of ever using a freemail account with Yahoo or Hotmail, it's worth opening one for this reason alone.

2004, Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, The Rough Guide to Travel Online, page 94:

(Internet, chiefly attributive) An email service provided free of charge to the public.


sharebait

From share + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).

af

Forget click-bait. We’re living in the world of share-bait now.

2014, Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post:

Among the many phenomena we’d tentatively attribute, in large part, to the trend: the rise of sharebait (nee clickbait) and the general BuzzFeedification of traditional media; the Internet hoax-industrial complex, which only seems to be growing stronger; and the utter lack of intelligent online discourse around any remotely complicated, controversial topic.

2016, Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post:

(Internet, informal, derogatory) Website content that exists only to be shared, aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs.


flameage

In the programming sections of Usenet, case conventions are second only to indentation as a source of pointless erudition and time-wasting flameage.

2004, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML, page 30:

(Internet, slang) Alternative form of flamage


Usegroup

A newsgroup, specifically on the Usenet system.


usegroup

Alternative letter-case form of Usegroup


IFTTT

(Internet) Initialism of If This Then That (a Web-based service allowing users to configure one program or service to do something in response to events in another program or service)


FQDN

fully qualified domain name
w:fully qualified domain name

(Internet) Initialism of fully qualified domain name.


webside manner

Blend of web (“the World Wide Web”) + bedside manner (“the ability of a healthcare professional to interact with their patients”).

blend

But more important than the technology, he says, is what clinicians in the field have taken to calling "webside" manner. It's a modern twist on bedside manner—a physician's ability to relate with a patient and convey their desire to help. […] "Look, there's variation whether you see a clinician in person or whether you see them online, so I'm not saying in any way that telemedicine is less helpful than in-person visits, or that webside manner is worse than bedside manner," says UCSF pulmonologist Adams Dudley. "But webside manner definitely requires more cooperation, and a different kind of cooperation, than bedside manner."

2017 October 26, Robbie Gonzalez, “Telemedicine is Forcing Doctors to Learn ‘Webside’ Manner”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-07:

In today's digital revolution and growing telehealth practice, good webside manners are equally important during virtual clinical visits. The same principles apply except physically touching the patient is not possible. Most doctors who have good bedside manners will also have equally good webside manners.

2019, “The Science of Medicine and the Art of Bedside Manners: Two Sides of the Same Coin”, in K. K. Pareek, editor, Medicine Update 2019, volume 29, New Delhi, London: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 1309, column 2:

Developing a "webside manner" increasingly is recognized as central to medical education. As it requires a different skill set than in person communication, specific programs are being developed to teach students how to conduct clinical examinations via videoconferencing, monitor data from wearable devices, and understand how to effectively engage patients.

2020, James O. Woolliscroft, “Communication”, in Implementing Biomedical Innovations into Health, Education, and Practice: Preparing Tomorrow’s Physicians, London, San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISBN, part II (Constants in Medicine), page 64:

Webside manners are synonymous with bedside manners and refer to the verbal and nonverbal body language cues utilized during [a] telemedicine patient encounter.

2021, Lakshmi Digala, Garima Singh, Kunal Malhotra, “Webside Manners and Ethical Issues”, in Swathi Beladakere Ramaswamy, Sachin M. Bhagavan, Raghav Govindarajan, editors, Leaning Teleneurology Basics: A Case-based Approach, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 55:

High-resolution web cameras and other home equipment were provided, and staff were given "webside" manner training.

2021, Don L. Goldenberg, “Telemedicine”, in COVID-19’s Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 93:

(neologism) The manner in which a healthcare professional interacts with patients remotely in telehealth or telemedicine.


WOTD

(chiefly online dictionaries) Initialism of word of the day.


over nine thousand

From episode 28 of the anime TV series Dragon Ball Z ("Goku's Arrival", 1997), referring to Goku's increase in power level.

(humorous, Internet slang, idiomatic) Off the charts; through the roof (beyond expectations).

List of Dragon Ball Z episodes (season 1)


webware

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Because the workflow for database construction, the program pipelines and the post-treatment scripts used by BIBI were extensively changed since the publication of the original paper, we present here a completely new version of this webware called leBIBI QBPP .

2015 August 12, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Guy Perrière, Manolo Gouy, “leBIBIQBPP: a set of databases and a webtool for automatic phylogenetic analysis of prokaryotic sequences”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16, →DOI:

(Internet, computing) software that is accessed online, typically via a browser


CORS

cross-origin resource sharing
w:cross-origin resource sharing

(Internet) Initialism of cross-origin resource sharing, a mechanism that allows restricted resources (e.g. fonts) on a web page to be requested from a different domain.


premove

Kasparov's loss to Caruana was a tragedy in a winning position. He wanted to trade queens by Qe4-c2, but a mouse slip landed the queen on d3. He tried to drag it to c2, which the computer registered as a premove that fatally lost a bishop. "Computers hate me!" said Kasparov, who famously lost to IBM Deep Blue in 1997.

2020 September 15, Leonard Barden, “Technical hazard trips up Kasparov as Carlsen and Nakamura battle to a tie”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-04:

Bortnyk's lead was never really in doubt and he converted game after game with brisk speed as premoves flew across the board by both players. Nothing seemed to click for Robson as even critical premoves seemed all too often to be mistimed: […]

2022 March 11, Anthony Levin, “Bullet Chess Championship Losers Round 2: Bortnyk, Erigaisi, Jacobson, Martinez Advance”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2022-03-16:

Premove — In online chess games, setting a piece to move automatically after an opponent moves.

[2022 June 13, Isaac Aronow, “Chess Terms and Vocabulary”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2023-01-17:

(Internet chess) On certain chess websites: a move set during the opponent's turn which is played automatically (if possible) after the opponent has made their move, done in order to save time in predictable positions.


premove

en-verb

premove (third-person singular simple present premoves, present participle premoving, simple past and past participle premoved)

premoves (present singular third-person)
premoving (participle present)
premoved (participle past)
premoved (past)

Game 18 was another up-and-down affair. First, Esipenko dropped a full rook, which went unpunished as Sarana had probably premoved his reply.

2019 June 12, Peter Doggers, “Junior Speed Chess: Sarana Beats Esipenko”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:

The second game was drawn. In the third, a bit of drama happened: in a position that was somewhere between equality and a slight advantage to White, Nakamura, by misclicking or premoving or for whatever other reason, hung a piece to a one-move tactic.

2021 October 3, Yuriy Krykun, “Champions Chess Tour Finals Day 1: Carlsen Impressive In Opener”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-27:


Viner

(Internet, historical) A user of Vine, an Internet-based service for sharing very short videos.


SGTM

(Internet) Initialism of sounds good to me.


postee

That soundtrack turned out to be for "Empire Records," and the postee was "Empire Records" assistant music supervisor Bob Knickman, who says he posted notes in music- skewed areas on various commercial services and the Internet.

1995, Billboard, volume 107, number 43, page 72:

After reading a message posted on a message board, the researcher offered a suggestion to the postee in a private e-mail.

2000, Ancestry magazine, volume 18, number 4, page 57:

[…] presented in a nice font, over a seascape background and accompanied by an addition from the postee such as 'omg so true' […]

(Internet) One who posts an electronic message; a poster.


DKIM

DomainKeys Identified Mail
w:DomainKeys Identified Mail

(Internet) Initialism of DomainKeys Identified Mail: an email authentication method designed to detect spoofing.


font stack

(web design) The list of fonts a CSS stylesheet instructs a web browser to use.


milblog

Milblogs required a balancing act between freedom of speech and the need for information security.

2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 80:

Milblogs have also been incorporated into mainstream coverage.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 36:

She opened and replied to all of her emails. That seemed to take less time than usual so she checked her favorite milblog.

2014, Cat Johnson, A Prince Among Men, page 130:

(Internet) A blog written by a person serving in the military.


server push

(web development) A style of Internet-based communication where the request for a transaction is initiated by the server.


Snapchatter

(Internet) A user of the mobile photo-messaging application Snapchat.


weblication

en-noun

weblication (countable and uncountable, plural weblications)

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Weblication is used in this article to describe any dissemination of information which occurs primarily via the Internet or World Wide Web. While weblications may be downloaded to local computers or magnetic media and/or printed onto paper by individual readers, this is secondary to their initial distribution.

1997 March, David Atherton, David Steffen, Sinai Yarus, “Scientific publishing : Paper or perish”, in Science Tribune:

2000 J.Q. Johnson, "Weblication & Future Publication," email posted to WEB4LIB list, 6 May 2000.
My own feeling is that the clear trend is towards less restriction on prior informal sharing of research results, and the inclusion of unreferreed weblication as something allowed by more and more journals.

2013, "Weblication," Combination: Innovate your language
weblication : A publication that is first published on the internet (web).

The act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.


weblication

The rapid growth of weblications—application-oriented software delivered as a service over the Web—has revealed a lack of effective guidelines for their design and implementation

2007, Norshuhada Shiratuddin, Zanariah Idrus, Web Form Design Checklist Based on the Three-Layer Model:

weblication : Jargon for "web application." Do not use. It could be confused with "web publication."

2012, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Manual of Style, Pearson Education:

(neologism) A computer application served on the World Wide Web.


HSTS

HTTP Strict Transport Security
w:HTTP Strict Transport Security

(Internet) Initialism of HTTP Strict Transport Security.


voice over IP

Subject: Voice over IP and/or OSI? Message: Am looking for information on software/hardware to allow voice transmission over IP and/or OSI stacks. Please post or mail direct. Thanks in advance.

1992 April 10, Steve Johnson, “Voice over IP and/or OSI?”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <534@trwacs.fp.trw.com>:

Is there an application that will let use broadcast audio and let individual machines 'tune in' on the connection?? Will we get decent bandwidth (i.e. sample rates at 32 or 48 kHz) or the crappy bandwidth like 8.192 kHz used for voice over IP (i.e. NeVOT) ??

1993 September 26, Jim Doyle, “Listening to CDs over the LAN ??”, in comp.sys.sgi.apps (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <284o3jINNmc2@ymir.cs.umass.edu>:

A router, by definition, cannot carry isochronous traffic such as voice. Some hard-core Internet fanatics, who detest telephone companies for a living (something about being chased away from the pay phone they were phreaking as a kid), will try to run voice over IP. It is like teaching a pig to sing: It won't sound good, and it annoys the pig.

1993 October 9, Fred R. Goldstein, “Re: How Will Routers Compete Against Digital Switches?”, in comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <telecom13.690.10@eecs.nwu.edu>:

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


ESI

(Internet) Initialism of Edge Side Includes (a markup language for assembling web pages with dynamic content, based on special tags inserted into the HTML code).


CSSOM

Cascading Style Sheets
w:Cascading Style Sheets

(Internet) Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets object model.


weblish

en-verb

weblish (third-person singular simple present weblishes, present participle weblishing, simple past and past participle weblished)

weblishes (present singular third-person)
weblishing (participle present)
weblished (participle past)
weblished (past)

Some libraries, especially those affiliated with academic institutions, may add weblishing to their archival function by putting e-journals on-line.

After about two months, we will weblish the first official edition of PEN extended with more problems.

2008, "Big Picture," Project PEN: Problems in Elementary Number Theory (blog), June 27, 2008

2011, "Weblicize," Urban Dictionary
"weblication" could also be used in like fashion, and "a weblication" could also refer to specific text, images, or other materials which are "weblicated"/"weblicized"/"weblished".

(Internet, transitive) To publish on the Web (as distinguished from in print).


PICS

(Internet) Platform for Internet Content Selection: a former technology for protecting children from online adult content, etc.


warblogging

The writing and publication of a warblog.


warblog

September 11 also spawned a generation of "warblogs,” mostly hawkish sites that focused on the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks.

2002, Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook, page 156:

Roggio, a former US soldier, turned his long-running warblog into a grander enterprise called the Long War Journal.

2009, Donald Matheson, Stuart Allan, Digital War Reporting, page 123:

Some of the most interesting are the warblogs created by soldiers and others.

(Internet) A blog documenting an ongoing military conflict or presenting analysis or opinions related to it.


warblogger

Possibly the most famous warblogger was the Baghad architect, Salam Pax, who logged on regularly to provide eyewitness reports on the bombing of his city.

2005, Graeme Turner, Ending the Affair: The Decline of Television Current Affairs in Australia, page 138:

And when Lileks turned into a warblogger, he made his bones. His audience swelled as Lileks turned tremendous writing skills to the issues of the war and a post-9/11 world.

2005, Hugh Hewitt, Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World, page 106:

Another notable difference is that warbloggers eventually made themselves heard on their own terms by the mainstream media, which had initially scorned them.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 33:


milblogger

One milblogger who writes anonymously, (as many do), commented in private correspondence with the author: […]

2006, Carl E. Dauber, “Life in Wartime: Real-Time News, Real-Time Critique, Fighting in the New Media Environment”, in Military Life: The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat, page 203:

A number of milbloggers converted their work to published books after returning home.

2008, Michael D. Doubler, The National Guard and the War on Terror: Operation Iraqi Freedom, page 81:

The rise of milbloggers writing from within the war zone itself suggests that in terms of international news reported from outside the West, citizen journalism—just like mainstream news reporting—is likely to be more easily done by Westerners.

2009, Melissa Wall, “The Taming of the Warblogs: Citizen Journalism and the War in Iraq”, in Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen, editors, Citizen Journalism: A Global Perspective, page 35:

(Internet) A military service member who writes a blog.

Some proxy officials from occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts also operate as milbloggers because they voice their opinions, share analysis from other milbloggers, and disseminate footage from the frontlines independent of the Kremlin and often at odds with the official MoD and Kremlin lines.

2022 November 20, Kateryna Stepanenko, Frederick W. Kagan, Grace Mappes, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 20”, in understandingwar.org, Institute for the Study of War, archived from the original on 2022-11-21:

(Internet) A blogger, usually one with a close relationship to armed forces, who blogs, often from the front lines, about an ongoing war.


Suckerberg

And tell Mark Suckerberg that I will sue him if he tries to use my student’s pictures again.

2013, Herbert, “Ditch Chris”, in Random Conversations, Partridge India, →ISBN, page 87:

“Suckerberg,” a British woman wrote. “let me guess,” a woman from Washington State wrote, “you guys never really thought of how explosive free speech really was did ya??”

2019, Andrew Marantz, “Common Sense”, in Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation, Viking, →ISBN, part six (A Night for Freedom), page 346:

They stopped reading poetry books during Shakespeare’s time and Suckerberg is only 32.

2019, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, “The Poet’s Revenge To No One Who Buys Poetry Books”, in Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, Jabulani Mzinyathi, editors, Zimbolicious Anthology: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts, volume 4, Chitungwiza: Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd, →ISBN, page 39:

(slang, derogatory) Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984), founder of social media company Facebook


Endless September

Thanks, Eugene, I was beginning to hallucinate that the Endless September was finally winding down, I appreciate you setting me straight. And for extending such a nice welcome to a Pro new to the Net, we really appreciate it.

1994 March 23, Mo Shu Glenn, “Thanks from Hero”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

Eternal September
Eternal September#English

(Internet slang) Synonym of Eternal September


AWS

Amazon Web Services
w:Amazon Web Services

(Internet) Initialism of Amazon Web Services.


sleeper account

en-noun

sleeper account (plural sleeper accounts)

(computing, Internet) An account that has been created but not edited in a long time and has now become dormant.


biblioblogger

From biblio- + blogger or biblioblog + -er.

(Internet) A contributor to a blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.


biblioblogging

(Internet) The process of writing and publishing a biblioblog.


biblioblog

(Internet) A blog or online journal concerned with the Bible.


evercookie

A breed of cookie known as evercookie writes data to multiple locations to make it next to impossible ever to remove it completely (http://samy.pl/evercookie/).

2014, Emmett Dulaney, Chuck Easttom, CompTIA Security+ Study Guide: SY0-401:

(Internet) A special kind of HTTP cookie that is especially resistant to deletion by the user.


delurker

One is how the delurker carried out the delurking action, i.e. how they presented themselves to the group for the first time. The other is how the group received them.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs: Interacting with Social Information Spaces:


MOTW

(Internet) Initialism of Mark of the Web: a code inserted into a saved copy of web page to indicate its origin, for security purposes.


SFTP

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Secure File Transfer Protocol (a true SSH File Transfer Protocol client from the OpenSSH project)

Secure File Transfer Protocol

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Simple File Transfer Protocol (an unsecured and rarely used file transfer protocol from the early days of the Internet)

Simple File Transfer Protocol

(computing, Internet) Initialism of SSH File Transfer Protocol (a network protocol used for secure file transfer over secure shell)


deep link

Therefore, it depends on the concrete circumstances whether deep links are legal or not. Noncommercial sites are probably more often allowed to deep link to other sites than commercial sites.

2004, Munindar P. Singh, editor, The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 10:

(Internet) A type of hyperlink directly pointing to content on a website, rather than its home page.

lien profond

a type of hyperlink linking to a website page which is not the home page


mukbang

mukbang (countable and uncountable, plural mukbangs)

Borrowed from Korean 먹방 (meokbang, literally “eating broadcast”).

bor

After all there's a huge market in South Korea for mukbangs. That's where someone is streaming as they eat. […] In any case there seem to be no particular types that are successful at streaming a mukbang since there are pretty young girls and heavy guys that seem to get a lot of viewers.

2016 January 6, shawn, “Re: AT&T U-Verse Shysters”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

I also get the sense, though, that some of those who, for whatever reason, often end up eating alone are tuning in for a dose of mukbang at mealtimes to get some virtual company (see the “Social Dining” chapter).

2017, Charles Spence, Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating, Penguin, →ISBN, page 57:

In each group of comments, the intersectionality of Kinoshita's identity markers is compounded as she is singled out as a mukbang eater, a female mukbang eater, a slim female mukbang eater, and finally a slim Asian female mukbang eater, […]

2018, Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

I eat the pussy like a mukbang, let my nuts hang

2022, “Estaciones”, performed by Action Bronson ft. Hologram:

(social media) An online video broadcast in which a person eats while interacting with their audience.


blacktag

At the same time, Evans isn't exactly blown away by the genius of most “blacktags,” which he calls “Ghetto Comedy Voice.” He is slightly bored by them, pointing instead to “white cultural fingerprints” in Internet prose.

2016, Virginia Heffernan, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, page 106:

Tweets often include the use of racialized hashtags referred to as “Blacktags” that help broadcast these performances across the Twitter universe.

2016, Kofi Lomotey, Pamela Braboy Jackson, Muna Adem, People of Color in the United States:

(Internet) A hashtag used by, or in support of, the black community.


pseudo-TLD

(Internet) A top-level domain that is not part of the official worldwide Domain Name System but is used in a similar way, for example on an intranet.


phisherman

From phisher + -man, modeled on fisherman.

Thus if he mistakenly enters his Citibank password into a phishing site, the phisherman gets a different password and cannot use it to impersonate him.

2010, Ross J. Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems:

(computing, Internet) The criminal performing phishing attacks.


BBCode

From BB + code, short for bulletin board code.

(Internet) A lightweight markup language, with tags in square brackets, used to format posts on message boards.


MMN

We should all know by now that Mystery Meat Navigation is not for use on "real" sites. I wondered how I could make MMN even worse.

2005, Alan Tapp, Principles of Direct and Database Marketing, page 234:

mystery meat navigation
mystery meat navigation#English

(Internet) Initialism of mystery meat navigation.


egonet

(Internet, psychology) The network of people affected by the ego of a particular user of a social network


cyberfraudster

(Internet) A cybercriminal who carries out online fraud.


activity stream

en-noun

activity stream (plural activity streams)

(Internet) A list of recent activities performed by someone, typically on a particular website.


burninate

en-verb

burninate (third-person singular simple present burninates, present participle burninating, simple past and past participle burninated)

burninates (present singular third-person)
burninating (participle present)
burninated (participle past)
burninated (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-burninate.wav

Back-formation from Burninator, from the original character Trogdor the Burninator from the Homestar Runner series of web cartoons.

Burninating the countryside! / Burninating the peasants! / Burninating all the people! / In their thatched-roof COTTAGES!!

2003 January 13, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #58: dragon”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

Although the language may not be going to hell in a handbasket — what is a handbasket, anyway? — some of its speakers appear ready to burninate a noob.

2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 24:

These wars were often fought by mercenaries' armies who—while going about busily pillaging and “burninating the countryside”—were often more concerned with (a) not dying and (b) looting and carrying off maidens than any particular religious ideals.

2016, Christopher Ben Simpson, Modern Christian Theology, T&T Clark, →ISBN, page 37:

(slang, humorous) To destroy by fire; to burn.


botosphere

"As Table 1 demonstrates, we have investigated a very small region of the botosphere on the Internet" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0171774

(Internet) The part of the Internet in which bots operate


blargon

en-noun

blargon (countable and uncountable, plural blargons)

There were columns on blogosphere blargon, tarnation-heck euphemisms, dastardly subjunctives and even Barack and Michelle Obama ’s fist bumps.

2009 September 28, Robert D. Mcfadden, “William Safire, Political Columnist and Oracle of Language, Dies at 79”, in New York Times:

(Internet) The jargon of the blogosphere.


Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language#English

Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language Version 5.


finstagram

Principles that guide Instagram are cheerfully ignored on fake accounts: If posting more than once a day to a main account is considered something of a faux pas, it’s perfectly acceptable, on a finstagram account, to unleash a stream of mundane images, screen shots of text conversations and ugly selfies .

2015 November 18, Valeriya Safronova, “On Fake Instagram, a Chance to Be Real”, in New York Times:


masterpost

(Internet) A posted message that gathers together several other posts on a single topic.


MHTML

(Internet) Initialism of MIME HTML: a web page archive format that combines in a single document the HTML code and its linked resources such as images.


CSRF token

Initialism of Cross-Site Request Forgery + token.

cross-site request forgeries
cross-site request forgery

(web development, computer security) A secret value added to a web form by the server and sent back by the user as part of a POST request, used to prevent cross-site request forgeries by making sure that the user sending the POST request has actually loaded the form.

web development; computer security; web development; computer security


XmlHTTP

(Internet, networking) a set of APIs that enable binary data, HTML or XML to be transmitted to and from Web servers over the Internet using HTTP.


Twitler

Blend of Twitter + Hitler, in comparison with the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and due to a tendency for former president and current president-elect Trump to tweet on the social media platform Twitter during his presidency.

This rule is precisely why the 68% of America who would never have voted for Resident Trump must keep a viable vigil in the streets and in the courts. “Twitler” Trump was allowed to insult, embarrass and engorge every individual and institution he wanted to for an entire campaign cycle. We taught him well.

2017 February 10, Vincent Hall, “Quit Playin': To Allow is to Teach?”, in The Dallas Weekly:

A pleasure to see that two attorneys generals, from D.C. and Maryland, just slapped Dum Dum with another emoluments lawsuit. We can’t have enough of these actions jammed up Twitler’s tailpipe.

2017 June 15, Bruce Van Dyke, “Too true to be good”, in Reno News & Review:

How long will Hair Twitler reign – And will he get out what he Putin? So now the world waits – and worries, to see What he will get up to next, the new fuhrer – A malicious clown has the nuclear codes Yet can't even acquit himself on Twitter.

[...] with posters featuring caricatures of Trump as Hitler, but that is no easy swipe at Twitler.

2018 April 12, Jack Helbig, “Hate has a home here”, in Chicago Reader, volume 47, number 27:


retromoderation

(Internet) The process of retromoderating.


IESG

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Engineering Steering Group (body composed of the IETF chair and area directors)


hero image

With the thumbnails in place we can concentrate on the hero image. Click the current full size image until the hero image is the active object.

2014, David Asch, Creative Web Design with Adobe Muse, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 66:

(web design) An eye-catching, prominent image, used as an over-sized (almost background-like) header.


cyberreal

My online beachfront home is cyberreal estate.

Synonym of virtual, existing on the internet (in cyberspace) but not in real life.

Our relationship is cyberreal, which is fine for now.

Real within the context of the internet, although limited or attenuated in real life.


Wikipedialike

en-adj

Wikipedialike (comparative more Wikipedialike, superlative most Wikipedialike)

more Wikipedialike (comparative)
most Wikipedialike (superlative)


webguide

(Internet) A guide published on the World Wide Web; an informative website.


search leakage

(Internet) The transmission of a user's search terms from a search engine to the site in the search results that the user chooses to visit; regarded as a privacy risk.


manospherian

neo colonialists,
meatheads,
juicers,
manospherians
and all the rest.

2016, Brandon Adamson, “The Swinging Nationalist”, in Beatnik Fascism, page 41:

Like Donovan, many manospherians invoke evolutionary psychology to bolster claims that traditional gender roles are inherent in human nature, and many of them emphasize male bonding as a key part of reasserting men's power.

2019, Matthew N. Lyons, “Jack Donovan and Male Tribalism”, in Mark Sedgwick, editor, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy, page 249:

Framing femininity in terms of immaturity and dependence is one of the characteristics of the manospherian discourse (Lilly, 2016).

2019, Zhané Hunte, "'Female Nature, Cucks, and Simps': Understanding Men Going Their Own Way as part of the Manosphere", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 24

(Internet slang, neologism, sometimes used attributively) One who participates in online communities associated with the manosphere.


WAI-ARIA

(Internet) Initialism of Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications (technical specification published by the W3C that specifies how to increase the accessibility of Web pages)


bullet chess

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bullet chess.wav

Carlsen also has been engaging in online marathons of "bullet chess," exactly the kind of attention-disrupting, energy-draining stunt contenders are supposed to avoid. In a bullet game, each player has only one minute for all the moves. The pace is so rapid the games are hard to watch, much less play.

2021 November 24, Tyler Cowen, “Chess Is an Esport Now. Get Used to It.”, in The Washington Post:

Carlsen often plays faster games such as "bullet chess" that force players to move quickly and instinctively rather than sink into analysis, and has even backed changing the format for championships.

2021 November 26, John Gapper, “Chess faces stalemate in its match with machines”, in Financial Times:

(chess, Internet) Chess played at an extremely fast time control, with each side getting one minute (or occasionally slightly more) to make their moves.


almost standards mode

backward compatibility
backward compatibility

(Internet) A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages, largely following the standards, but using different height calculations for certain elements.


leave someone on read

en-verb

leave someone on read (third-person singular simple present leaves someone on read, present participle leaving someone on read, simple past and past participle left someone on read)

leaves someone on read (present singular third-person)
leaving someone on read (participle present)
left someone on read (participle past)
left someone on read (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-leave someone on read.wav

My boyfriend left me on read yesterday after I asked him to send me a picture of his dog, which made me very angry!

Left a nigga on read 'cause I felt like it

2018, “I Do”, performed by Cardi B ft. SZA:

I said, do that, do that, baby all night long/ And I'ma turn off all my phones / You know I hate it when I'm left on read / But he make it all up in the bed

2019, Doja Cat, “Like That”, in Hot Pink:

Usually, when you leave someone on read, it's to send the message that you're upset with them, you're over their nonsense, or you're just not that into them.

2021, Mandy Hale, Don't Believe the Swipe: Finding Love without Losing Yourself, Baker Books, →ISBN:

I'd sent both Ray and Jaz apology messages over the weekend. Ray had responded by blocking me, and Jaz had left me on “read”—not that I blamed either of them.

2021, Sophie Gonzales, chapter 19, in Perfect on Paper, Wednesday Books, →ISBN:

“You've left me on read since one o'clock.” This was true; she'd sent me a long string of increasingly distraught and complicated emojis that I'd flicked away to decipher later. I'm not much for hieroglyphics.

2021, Katie Jane Gallagher, Unearthly, Hidden Bower Press:

(Internet slang) To read someone's instant message(s) without giving a response, particularly on a platform that lets one see whether a message has been viewed.

已讀不回 /已读不回

read someone's message and not give any response


Gaygler

Gayglers include the company's GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual) employees.

2009, Janet Lowe, Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 161:

(informal) A gay employee of the technology company Google.


link juice

A brief aside about hoarding PageRank: many people have taken this to an extreme and built sites where they refused to link out to other quality websites, because they feared losing visitors and link juice. Ignore this idea!

2012, Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin, chapter 4, in The Art of SEO, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 111:

search engine optimization
search engine optimization

(slang, Internet) The implicit recommendation given to a website (and noted by search engine crawlers) when it is linked to; the focus of search engine optimization.


litblog

(Internet) A weblog on the topic of literature.


Bloggernacle

(Internet slang) The Mormon blogosphere.


multiblog

(Internet) Of or relating to more than one weblog.


spamblog

(Internet) A weblog used to disseminate spam, rather than actual original content.


blog carnival

(Internet) An event where various weblog authors write posts on the same topic, which are then published together.


j-blog

(Internet) A weblog written by a journalist.


j-blogger

(Internet) A journalist who publishes a weblog about his/her work.


j-blogging

(Internet) The publishing of a weblog by a journalist about his/her work.


search-engine-friendly

en-adj

search-engine-friendly (comparative more search-engine-friendly, superlative most search-engine-friendly)

more search-engine-friendly (comparative)
most search-engine-friendly (superlative)

(Internet) Of a web page: designed so that automated search engine crawlers can easily index and categorize its contents.


MEAN

(web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js: a software stack for developing web sites with both client-side and server-side use of JavaScript.


phlogging

(Internet) The publication of a phlog, or weblog updated by mobile phone.


phlog

(Internet) A weblog updated by means of text messages from a mobile phone, rather than by computer.


phlog

(Internet) A journal published via the Gopher protocol.


chumbox

From chum + box, suggesting the chumbuckets used in fishing, full of rancid bait.

ctrl+f "chumbox" http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/22/5639892/how-weaponized-clickbait-took-over-the-web zero results :(

2014 April 22, Alene Vincent, “Alene Vincent on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2017-05-26:

This is a chumbox. It is a variation on the banner ad which takes the form of a grid of advertisements that sits at the bottom of a web page underneath the main content. It can be found on the sites of many leading publishers, including nymag.com, dailymail.co.uk, usatoday.com, and theawl.com (where it was “an experiment that has since ended.”)

2015 June 4, John Mahoney, “A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum”, in The Awl, archived from the original on 2017-05-26:

You know those bizarre ads at the bottom of a lot of web pages? “10 foods that will kill you,” “Creepy historical photos,” things like that? Here are a few that caught my eye lately: “Which presidential politician are you?” “Which actor are you?” or even “Which Kardashian are you?” Then you’re supposed to click and answer a few questions about yourself to find out. It’s called the “chumbox,”—click bait junk advertising that doesn’t deliver.

2016 October 12, John Stonestreet, “Beware the Chumbox”, in Break Point, archived from the original on 2017-05-26:

But to some news publishers, already fending off fake-news accusations and struggling to retain readers, chumbox ads have turned from annoying to toxic. The New Yorker stopped posting them in 2016.

2019 October 4, Tiffany Hsu, “You Will Be Shocked by This Article”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet marketing) A grid of clickbait advertisements on a webpage.


cybererotica

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-cybererotica.wav

Erotic or pornographic material in cyberspace or on the Internet.


at-rule

(Internet) A type of directive in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) that is prefixed with the at sign @.


crowdsale

The most proven use case for smart contracts so far is custom tokens and crowdsales.

2018, Kedar Iyer, Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts:

The sale documents said that once the Ethereum blockchain launched and the premined ether was issued, miners would generate new ether initially at an annual rate of 26% of the amount of ether issued in the crowdsale – the issuance rate isn’t fixed and is capped at 18 million ETH minted per year.

2020 November 7, Camila Russo, “Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum's 2014 Premine”, in CoinDesk, archived from the original on 2024-06-17:

(Internet) An online event where participants can purchase tokens in a cryptocurrency.


(Internet) Initialism of cam-to-cam (“direct video communication by webcam”).


slashtag

From slash + tag, to rhyme with hashtag.

(Internet) A tag in a posted message, starting with the / symbol and serving as a keyword to specify a topic or metadata.


alt-light

It [new atheism] was one of the predecessors to the alt-light, with an underlying Christopher Hitchens style of hitting out at the irrational and the faithful.

2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:

He is also adored by figures on the so-called alt-light (basically the “alt-right” without the sieg heils and the white ethnostate), including Mike Cernovich, Gavin McInnes and Paul Joseph Watson.

2018 February 7, Dorian Lynskey, “How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?”, in The Guardian:

(Internet, derogatory) A nebulous grouping of far-right people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, who are largely aligned with the alt-right but reject explicit white nationalism and anti-Semitism.


Tinder

en-verb

Tinder (third-person singular simple present Tinders, present participle Tindering, simple past and past participle Tindered)

Tinders (present singular third-person)
Tindering (participle present)
Tindered (participle past)
Tindered (past)

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The application's name is likely derived from the verb tinder (“to set fire to, to torch”), and a play on the various meanings of match (the prototype was called MatchBox).

I haven't been Tindering or doing the Plenty of Fish thing in quite some time because I've been seeing Date #2, and he's lovely. […] I'm not Tindering or frequenting POF because my heart still belongs to him, but up pops a message on the Friday night.

2016 March 7, Khaley Fenn, edited by Alexandria Santamaria, Swipe Right, FriesenPress, →ISBN:

With Tinder, the pretext is to hook-up, but the real pleasure is derived from the Tindering process. […] Summing up the Tindering experience, Tinderers would rather judge 50 pictures in two minutes than spend 50 minutes assessing one potential partner in a traditional face-on-face dating environment.

2017 September 29, Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan, “4. Electronic Friendships”, in Friendship and Happiness And the Connection Between the Two, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, →ISBN, page 147:

There is a time to Tinder—sometimes it's a great escape, a great delight, a time of needed, almost medicinal, connection. Sometimes it even yields real, loving, and joyous relationships. And, there is a time to refrain from Tindering.

2021 August 17, Merissa Nathan Gerson, Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving, Mandala Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:

(social media, intransitive) To use the dating application Tinder.


tabnabbing

From tab + nabbing, coined in 2010 by Aza Raskin.

(Internet) A form of cyberattack that takes over inactive tabs in a user's browser, relying on their inattention.


click farmer

(Internet) An owner or operator of a click farm.


click farm

(Internet) A form of click fraud, where a large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on paid advertising links for the click fraudster.


Bitcoin faucet

(Internet) A website or app that gives out tiny amounts of bitcoin.


wikiverse

In the wikiverse, the word "contributions" refers to edits done to a wiki.

(Internet) The entire collective scope of wikis.


sideblog

(Internet) A secondary weblog, ancillary to the author's primary blog.


IMT

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Media Type (formerly MIME)


pay per play

(Internet) An online advertising method that plays an audio advertisement when the user visits a web page. The advertiser pays for each ad that is played in this way.


motsser

From the newsgroup name soc.motss (short for members of the same sex) + -er.

(Internet slang) A member of the soc.motss newsgroup for the discussion of gay issues.


Twitface

Blend of Twitter + Facebook, the names of two major social media websites.

Leave the phone calls, leave the music, leave the TwitFace, and leave all your self-involved portal devices in the house. Take the brain and body out for some fresh air.

2014, The Velominati, The Rules: The Way of the Cycling Disciple:

“Right. I won't talk about him on Twitface.”
“Not just social media. Do not mention him to the press, the police, or the government. Especially not the government. Do not cross him on this.”

(slang, humorous, derogatory) Social media.


omnibox

From omni- + box. Introduced by the Google Chrome browser and later adopted for use in Opera Neon.

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet, graphical user interface) An enhanced address bar in a web browser that can also accept certain text commands.


Throwback Thursday

en-noun

Throwback Thursday (plural Throwback Thursdays)

If Throwback Thursday isn't a good fit for your goals, come up with your own recurring content theme.

2014, Kristin Magette, Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity, →ISBN, page 55:

Throwback Thursday is another way to integrate your loved one into your life online.

2016, Allison Gilbert, Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive, →ISBN, page 35:

Are we having a little Throwback Thursday thing here?

2016, Danica Winters, Dust Up With The Detective, →ISBN:

Kim also recognizes fans by noticing particular endeavors on her blog and by occasionally recognizing their contact with her on Throwback Thursdays.

2013, Amanda Scheiner McClain, Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality, →ISBN:

Thanks to social media getting all nostalgic on Throwback Thursdays, everyone knows you once sported a mullet.

2015, Scott Kleinberg, So Social, →ISBN:

You flew to Dallas last Thursday and showed up at the Hilton after I Instagrammed a picture from my bat mitzvah. It was Throwback Thursday! That party happened over a decade ago.

2016, Laura Lane, Angela Spera, This Is Why You're Single, →ISBN:

(Internet) Thursday as a traditional day for sharing previously-used content via social media.


Google Doodle

American graphic designer and filmmaker, Saul Bass, has been given a video Google Doodle to mark what would have been his 93rd birthday.

2013 May 8, Luke Howard, “Google Doodle celebrates work of graphic designer Saul Bass with Video Tribute”, in The Independent:

The Quintanilla-inspired Doodle comes after Google's homepage artwork has been criticized in the past for its lack of diversity. A report from advocacy group SPARK Movement found in 2014 that 62% of people featured in Google Doodles from 2010 through 2013 were white men.

2017 October 17, Lisa Eadicicco, “New Google Doodle Celebrates Iconic Singer Selena Quintanilla”, in Time:

Today, a Google Doodle has celebrated the 66th anniversary of the creation of the game-changing institution.

2017 October 18, David Hughs, “Studio for Electronic Music remembered with Google Doodle – why the German institution's 66th anniversary is worth celebrating”, in The Sun:

(Internet) A periodic alteration of the logo on Google's homepage that is intended to celebrate achievements, events, holidays, and noteworthy people.


magic link

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(Internet) A time-sensitive hyperlink sent by email, allowing the recipient to log in to a system without the usual authentication process.

(Wikimedia jargon) On MediaWiki, a feature that creates automatic links for certain hardcoded external identifiers, such as for ISBN numbers.


IAR

Ignore all rules
ignore all rules#English

(initialism, Wikimedia jargon) Ignore all rules.


Jewtube

(Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) The video sharing site YouTube, especially in the context of monetization of videos.


cybermall

(Internet) A virtual online shopping center; a collection of cyberstores.


superlayer

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(Internet) A layer of an HTML frame that has other layers within it


CheckUser

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A log of CheckUser actions is visible to all Checkusers.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 327:

This is the CheckUser software, accessible to a restricted number of admins. CheckUser identifies what IP address registered Wikipedians are accessing the site from.

2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: autonomy and authority in online tribes, page 162:

Wales wished to delegate the substantive disputes amng editors, determinations of which editors have the "CheckUser" power to check IP addresses of suspected vandals and the oversight power of "enhanced deletion" over libelous material or material that infringes copyright, and decisions about banning users that he had heretofore made on his own.

2014, Thomas Leitch, Wikipedia U, →ISBN:

(Wikimedia jargon) A tool that allows someone to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets, etc; or the authority to use that tool.


Red Room

(Internet) According to an urban legend, a room where people are tortured and murdered for an audience of viewers via the Dark Web, the viewers sometimes voting or bidding on the form of torture to be performed.


checkuser

Essjay is serving a second term as chair of the mediation committee. He is also an admin, a bureaucrat, and a checkuser, which means that he is one of fourteen Wikipedians authorized to trace IP addresses in cases of suspected abuse.

2006, The New Yorker, volume 82, numbers 20-28, page 41:

In Wikipedia this kind of activities is performed by members who assume distinct social roles, for instance the quality of the articles is addressed by reviewers and rollbackers, and the users' management is handled by checkusers and account creators.

2011, Adriana S. Vivacqua, Carl Gutwin, Marcos R.S. Borges, Collaboration and Technology, →ISBN:

Checkusers are allowed to check IP addresses of users, usually to confirm or disprove that one person is editing from several accounts. Although formally one does not have to be an administrator to become a checkuser, in practice only some administrators receive these rights.

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 34:

(wiki jargon) A user who is granted access to view the IP addresses of wiki users, so as to identify sock puppets etc.


SPIT

(Internet) Abbreviation of spam over Internet telephony.


IoE

IoE (countable and uncountable, plural IoEs)

Coordinate term: IoT

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is a similar concept, of which IoT could be considered a part, and refers to millions of devices that connect with the internet […]

2015, Martin Greiner, Automotive Supply Chain Management in the Internet of Things, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 1:

Internet of Everything
Internet of Everything#English

(Internet) Initialism of Internet of Everything.


HTTP/2 enables a more efficient use of network resources and a reduced perception of latency by introducing header field compression and allowing multiple concurrent exchanges on the same connection.

2015 May, M. Belshe, R. Peon, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)”, in M. Thomson, editor, RFC Editor, →DOI, →ISSN, RFC 7540:

(Internet, networking) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol/2 (a major revision of the HTTP network protocol used by the World Wide Web and approved in 2015.)


TFP

(Internet) Initialism of time for print: a photographer's arrangement where the model is paid with a selection of prints from the shoot, and a limited licence to use them.


TFCD

(Internet) Initialism of time for compact disc: a photographer's arrangement where the model is paid with a selection of the images from the shoot on CD.


distribution list

distribution list (plural distribution lists)

(Internet) An electronic mailing list, made up of the recipients' e-mail addresses.


chat group

(Internet) A group of people who meet and chat online, especially in a chat room


Frightful Five

The companies I call the Frightful Five — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, Google’s parent company — have experienced astounding growth over the last few years, making them the world’s five most valuable public companies.

2017 October 11, Frahad Manjoo, “The Frightful Five Want to Rule Entertainment. They Are Hitting Limits.”, in The New York Times:

Both factors freeze out other entrants, limit the number of insiders to one or two, and reduce many outsiders to irrelevance, if they survive at all. Lest anyone doubt the importance of rapid scaling and network effects, the Frightful Five benefit(ed) from these factors.

2017 September/October, Shane Greenstein, “Insider Privileges”, in IEEE Micro, volume 37, number 5:

The major asset of technology's "Frightful Five" - Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple - lies in their ability to synergize user databases with thrid party commerce (MIT Sloan 2017; Manjoo 2017).

2018, Karan P. Jani, Anmol Soni, “Promise and Perils of Bid Data Science for Intelligence Community”, in Technology and the Intelligence Community, →ISBN, page 184:

Imagine that an "evil, tech-phobic monarch" forced everyone to stop using products and services from the major technology companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), a.k.a. the "Frightful Five."

2018, Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger, Re-Engineering Humanity, →ISBN, page 2:

Overall, the Frightful Five are healthier than ever.

2019, Ronald M. Baecker, Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

(informal) The five largest technology companies in the world: Amazon, Apple, Alphabet (owner of Google), Facebook (or its parent company Meta) and Microsoft.


SHM

(Internet slang) Initialism of shake my head.


hotword

[…] and will jump to the Web page "order.htm" if a user clicks on the hotword.

1997, S. M. H. Collin, Setting Up a Web Server, page 154:

Hotwords can be activated fast, typically by a single mouse click. But sometimes the link anchored in a hotword doesn't take the reader to the expected place, because of bad wording, for example.

2013, Wolfgang Schuler, Jörg Hannemann, Norbert Streitz, Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia, page 211:


netaholic

(informal) A person who is addicted to the Internet.


clickocracy

From click + -ocracy, a neologism in the form of democracy.

Owing to the 'clickocracy' of the Internet, a Web site can set up shop with a miniscule^([sic]) budget and end up competing with the big guns.

2002, Matt Haig, How Come You Don't Have an E-business Strategy?: The Essential Guide to Online Business, Kogan Page Publishers, published 2002, page 3:

Like it or not, we now belong to a clickocracy -- one nation under Google, with video and e-mail for all.

2008 April 1, Jose Antonio Vargas, “Campaign.USA: With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy'”, in Washington Post:

To be sure, algorithmic media also require audience participation—but only in an automated, aggregated clickocracy.

2012, Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink, "The Algorithm Method: Making news decisions in a clickocracy," Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2012

Also, and rather critically, in the new world of clickocracy, "my vote doesn't make a difference" makes the erroneous assumption that voting is the only expression of political will now available to us.

2013, Justin Cash, The Rise of Clickocracy: Politics for a Digital Age, Lulu, page 143:

(neologism) the role of the internet and algorithmic media in elections and governance.


internet brigade

/ˈɪntənɛt bɹɪˈɡeɪd/

/ˈɪn(t)əɹˌnɛt bɹɪˈɡeɪd/

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if you're just another one of the PAP internet brigade.

2008 October 21, jeff goh, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

This so-called “PAP Internet Brigade” was also accused of creating multiple monikers in various internet forums such as the once-popular Sammyboy Alfresco Coffeeshop forum and disrupting threads critical of the PAP by engaging in flame wars, personal attacks, defamatory statements, and impersonations.

2009 January 11, “Has the PAP Internet Brigade lost its teeth?”, in Sgpolitics, archived from the original on 2016-05-29:

Some of these comments could be done deliberately by people in the "Internet brigade" with the sole intention of creating trouble for Alex Au.

2013 January 5, TheInquirer, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

The papist Leegime has an internet brigade that wrack havoc on the internet. They disrupt discussion, sending virus to critics, downing websites critical of the government and very often posting rubbish and plain lies.

2014 June 8, Harry, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

It is known that there are a bunch of people whom we know as the PAP Internet Brigade (IB) who act as insurgents to spread the PAP’s propaganda and attack the opposition and activists online (this was reported in The Straits Times in 2007).

2016 July 7, Ng E-Jay, “Internet brigade continue to game Facebook's algorithm to get activists banned and censored”, in The Independent (Singapore):

Like China, the Singapore government activated a team of internet brigade to defend Lee Hsien Loong’s embarrassing interview featured on BBC Facebook page.

2017 March 1, “Government hires internet brigade to defend Lee Hsien Loong on BBC Facebook”, in States Times Review, Singapore: States Times Review, archived from the original on 2017-11-02:

Saying ‘PAP IB’ is the most common and fastest insult. The moment you disagree, you become a PAP IB.

2021 August 7, “IN FOCUS: ‘Boomer, snowflake, oppie, pappie’ - unpacking the growing social media polarisation in Singapore”, in Channel NewsAsia, Singapore: Chanmel NewsAsia, retrieved 2023-12-21:

(Singlish, derogatory) pro-People's Action Party internet trolls and propagandists


ASFR

This initialism stems from the now-defunct Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.fetish.robots.

(Internet) Initialism of alt.sex.fetish.robots.


overposter

I dislike the overposters as well.

1999 January 7, Jim Luftman, “reguarding an overposter!!!!! please read”, in rec.arts.comics.marketplace (Usenet):

I'm hardly an overposter.

2001 July 25, Aerogram, “Dickhead compilation”, in alt.music.prince (Usenet):

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:49:33 -0400, Huronia wrote about a certain overposter: If my family had no food, I think I'd be working on that problem instead of complaining to cyberbuddies all day that I'm running out.

2003 October 23, Charles Perrin, “Do you make alt.fashion related holiday gifts?”, in alt.fashion (Usenet):

He's a compulsive overposter, just like Kent Paul Dolan, over on talk.bizarre!

2008 May 23, Bob, “Senator Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):

It's hard to find the opinions of a variety of people when one overposter buries all the others.

2010 November 22, Freedom Man, “Obwon has alot^([sic]) of time on his hands again”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):

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. If you find yourself annoyed by an over-poster on Facebook, don't hesitate to unsubscribe. (They won't know that you did!)

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

(Internet) A person who makes too many posts, for example on social media or a forum.


Yelper

(Internet) A user of Yelp, an Internet service that publishes crowdsourced reviews of local businesses.


scambaiter

(Internet) One who engages in scambaiting.


double opt-in

(Internet, marketing) The situation where a subscriber to a newsletter etc. first provides their e-mail address and then receives a confirmation request to that address, requiring them to take further action (such as clicking a hyperlink) to activate the subscription.


milkshake duck

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From a Twitter post by Ben Ward (pixelatedboat) on June 12th, 2016: "The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist".

(Internet slang) Someone or something, especially on social media, that is widely considered to be endearing, but is then discovered to be or have done something deeply flawed or distasteful.


PageRank

Named after Google co-founder Larry Page (1973–) and, punningly, (web) page.

named-after

(Internet) The algorithm used by Google Search to rank webpages and other media on the Internet.


PageRank

(Internet) The rank of a page calculated by the PageRank algorithm.


linklog

Business blogs have a tendency to be factual and outward facing, using a linklog style that points to interesting or relevant information on the Internet.

2006, Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs, Uses of Blogs, page 59:

Sometimes a linklog will run alongside fuller journal entries or other commentary.

2007, Vivien Morgan, Practising Videojournalism, page 149:

(Internet) A weblog consisting primarily of links to other sites.


IANAD

(Internet) Initialism of I am not a doctor.


Elsagate

From Elsa + -gate, after the protagonist of Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen whose likeness often appears in the videos.

Just a few months after the Pizzagate debacle, Elsagate was formed with a very similar playbook: a group of amateur sleuths using open-source intelligence to fight a hazily defined evil threatening helpless children.

2017 December 8, Russell Brandom, “Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy YouTube kids videos”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-12-08:

Videos that are in the Elsagate category are not hard to identify. Typically, they feature Spiderman^([sic]) and Elsa together and are extremely low-budget videos without much structure or plot.

2019 August 2, Sherri Gordon, “Keeping Your Child Safe on YouTube After Elsagate”, in Verywell Family, archived from the original on 2020-03-22:

(Internet, neologism) The controversy surrounding supposedly child-friendly videos posted on the Internet that contain themes inappropriate for children, such as violence and sexual situations.


wypipo

Phonetic spelling of “white people” in African American Vernacular English.

“@PaulCantor: @Me you just need one rich white guy to believe you will be the one who makes him cool, and you're set.” WHERE U AT WYPIPO

2013 October 6, THE KID MERO 🇩🇴, “THE KID MERO 🇩🇴 on Twitter”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2018-01-06:

For now, let's take a step into Black History Month since that is the only time wypipo generally give two Fun-Dip sticks and a lick about Black history.

2017 February 1, Aaryn Belfer, “Backwards & In High Heels: Rounding up my cousins”, in San Diego CityBeat:

However, the Powhatan people told the Jamestonians that Matoaka's name was"Pocohontas," which loosely translates to "stolen by thieving-ass wypipo" (my Powhatan is a little rusty).

2017 November 30, Michael Harriot, Why Calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocohontas" Is Racist, Explained, in San Bernardino American Newspaper, volume 48, number 32

Wypipo: Quit making excuses. Work hard. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Go to college. No one's just going to hand opportunities to you.
Also wypipo: Wow, you applied to 20 colleges? And got into all of them? How obnoxious.

2018 April 19, Anne Branigin, Black Teen Who Won Full ride to 20 Colleges Wants Apology From Reporter Who Called His Effort "Obnoxious", in San Bernardino American Newspaper, volume 48, number 52, front page

MAGA hat wearing, confederate flag waving, tiki torch bearing wypipo.

2019 September 4, Ted Neill, “Reaper Moon”, in Race War in the Post Apocalypse, page 6:

Because wypipo stay annoying, during his victory speech, McConnell gave a shout out to King and his “I Have a Dream” speech, aka literally the only MLK speech that exists as far as white conservatives are concerned.

2020 November 5, Zack Linly, “Mitch McConnell Referenced Martin Luther King Jr. in His Victory Speech. MLK's Family Graciously Invite Him to STFU”, in The Root:

(slang, African-American Vernacular, derogatory, usually offensive) White people.


witkey

en-noun

witkey (countable and uncountable, plural witkeys)

Originated in China in 2005. Blend of wisdom + key, originally the name of a website.

(Internet) A Web-based system whereby users can exchange and purchase services and information, and share knowledge and experience, in order to save time and money.


Wikian

(dated) A person who contributes to the wiki farm Wikia (now called Fandom since 2016), especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of the site.


wiki farm

Soon after, in 2007, Wikidot Inc. was incorporated in the state of Delaware. Since that time it has grown into the world's third‒largest wiki farm, with almost half a million users running 120,000 sites and serving about 40M unique visitors per year.

2012, Roger McHaney, The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education:

(Internet) A type of server farm that offers users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis.


wikian

For quotations using this term, see Citations:wikian.

(rare) A contributor to any wiki or any number of wikis.


Insta

These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.

2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:

(informal, chiefly text messaging, Internet slang) Clipping of Instagram.


Insta

en-verb

Insta (third-person singular simple present Instas or Insta's, present participle Insta-ing or Insta'ing, simple past and past participle Insta-ed or Insta'ed)

Instas (present singular third-person)
Insta's (present singular third-person)
Insta-ing (participle present)
Insta'ing (participle present)
Insta-ed (participle past)
Insta-ed (past)
Insta'ed (participle past)
Insta'ed (past)

Patrick Dempsey, who played Dr. Derek Shepherd for 11 seasons, Insta-ed a close-up of his masked face, captioning it with one of his catchphrases. "It’s a Beautiful Day to Save Lives," he wrote. "#WearAMask."

2020 July 23, Jelisa Castrodale, “‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Gears Up for Pandemic Storyline in Upcoming 60,000th Season”, in Vice:


MMP

en-noun

MMP (countable and uncountable, plural MMPs)

(Internet marketing) Initialism of mobile measurement partner.


stochastic terrorism

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Coined by Gordon Woo. stochastic + terrorism

All of this fits with what the anonymous blogger G2G had to say in his expanded definition of stochastic terrorism: “you heat up the waters and stir the pot, knowing full well that sooner or later a lone wolf will pop up and do the deed. The fact that it will happen is as predictable as the fact that a heated pot of water will eventually boil. But the exact time and place of each incident will remain as random as the appearance of the first bubbles in the boiling pot."

2017, Clayton Delery, Out for Queer Blood:

How does stochastic terrorism unfold in the course of real-world events? We propose a practical description of stochastic terrorism as an interactive process between the originator of a message, its amplifiers, and one of more ultimate receivers.

2021 October, Molly Amman, J. Reid Meloy, “Stochastic Terrorism: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis”, in Perspectives on Terrorism, →ISSN, page 3:

Trump is playing a dangerous game, and there is a name for it: Stochastic terrorism. The cries for vengeance and violent retribution from the leader of the MAGA movement aren’t a message to anyone in specific but rather a bat signal to everyone who can hear his voice, whether it’s armed and troubled young men like Martinez or the Jacksonville gunman, or the angry mob that responded on Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump tweeted, “Will be wild!”

2023, Will Bunch, “A MAGA gunman in New Mexico and ‘the end of politics’ in America”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

(neologism, sociology, social media) The use of mass public communication, usually against a particular individual or group, which

Incites or inspires acts of terrorism which are statistically probable but happen seemingly at random,

The joining of the two words, stochastic and terrorism, is originally attributable to machematician and catastrophist Gordon Woo, who used the term to suggest a quantifiable relationship between seemingly random acts of terrorism and the goal of perpetuating fear through mass media's coverage of the violence.

Perpetuates fear through coverage of seemingly random acts of terrorism.


e-signature

(Internet) Data used by a signatory to sign something electronically. It may involve cryptography or may simply be a name typed into a document.


OOCSS

Where OOCSS and SMACSS can be seen as a more of frameworks for thinking about structured CSS combined with some handy rules of thumb, BEM is a much more rigid system for how to author and name your styles.

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

(web design) Initialism of Object-oriented CSS.


@ party

From the @ symbol used in e-mail addresses.

Hi! An @ party will be held in Room 3121 at Balticon on Saturday night, starting at 10 PM and going for an as-yet undetermined while. The @ party is hosted by Digital Express Group, purveyors of that mightiest of refreshments, digital espresso!

1992, Richard L. Butler, “An @ party at Balticon, Room 3121, hurrah...”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

I've been to a few @ parties- it's very simple. You look at the party board, and show up at the appropriate place and time. Usually/often someone at the door will ask you for your email address (just to make sure you aren't some kind of clueless geek, I guess), and you go on in and meet net.people.

1993, Binky, “@ Party?”, in alt.fandom.cons (Usenet):

(Internet, historical) An informal private party held as part of a convention, giving Internet users a chance to meet in person.


web development

The work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or an intranet.


web dev

web dev (countable and uncountable, plural web devs)

Thank you to the many web devs who have generously shared their knowledge with me, both directly and without even realising it.

2012, Oli Studholme, “Acknowledgments”, in Richard Clark, Oli Studholme, Christopher Murphy, Divya Manian, Beginning HTML5 and CSS3, Apress, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page xviii:

Now hiring web devs, designers, illustrators, artists, etc. to volunteer for our #globalprteam.

2012, Robert McHale with Eric Garulay, Navigating Social Media Legal Risks: Safeguarding Your Business, Indianapolis, Ind.: Que Publishing, Pearson Education, Inc., →ISBN, page 153:

Here, a range of leading web devs share their advice from an accumulated century of hard won experience to help you improve your web building abilities.

2013, Tom May, editor, The Ultimate Guide to Web Design, Bath: Future Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:


SPA

SPA (countable and uncountable, plural SPAs)

single-page application
single-page application#English

(web development) Initialism of single-page application.


Googlian

en-adj

Googlian (comparative more Googlian, superlative most Googlian)

more Googlian (comparative)
most Googlian (superlative)


bounce rate

(Internet marketing) The proportion of visitors who arrive at a website and then leave rather than continuing to view other pages within the same site.


WISP

wireless internet service provider#English

Acronym of wireless internet service provider. (wireless ISP)


FBML

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

2011, Richard Wagner, Building Facebook Applications For Dummies:

(Internet) Initialism of Facebook markup language.


ISMS

Information Security
information security#English

Management System
management system#English

(computing, Internet) Initialism of Information Security Management System.


toplist

(Internet) A list of websites on a certain topic or in a certain category, ranked by the number of visitors they receive.


friend request

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request for another user to add one as a friend on a social media service


Quoran

(Internet) A user of Quora, an online community where people answer each other's questions.


domain tasting

(Internet) Any of various forms of exploitation of the grace period during which a newly registered domain name can be cancelled.


domain kiting

(Internet) The (often repeated) cancellation and reregistration of a domain name so as to exploit the grace period to display advertisements on the domain while not paying for it.


dotted quad

(Internet) An IPv4 address in the form of four numbers separated by dots, such as 127.0.0.1.


scambait

en-verb

scambait (third-person singular simple present scambaits, present participle scambaiting, simple past and past participle scambaited)

scambaits (present singular third-person)
scambaiting (participle present)
scambaited (participle past)
scambaited (past)

(Internet) To pose as a potential victim of a scam, in order to waste the scammer's time and resources.


webbased

en-adj

webbased (comparative more webbased, superlative most webbased)

more webbased (comparative)
most webbased (superlative)


Twitterer

(Internet) A user of the website Twitter.


finsta

Clipping of finstagram, from fake + Instagram.

“My little sister who's in middle school is doing finstas,” Carrie said.

2017, Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, page 134:

On a seemingly regular basis, young White people's overtly racist remarks are moved out of the shadows of their “Finstas” (fake instagram accounts) and into the “public” domain to be judged by all.

2020, Christopher D. DeSante, Candis Watts Smith, The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics, page 101:

I'd say the concept of sliding into one's DMs [direct messages] on Instagram is very powerful, especially because finstas allow people to be more open about things.

2021, anonymous student, quoted in Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, & Jane Shaw, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, page 74

(informal) A secondary Instagram account under which one posts privately or anonymously.


radiotracker

(Internet) Any of several devices that augment access to Internet radio sites


DoggoLingo

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(Internet slang, neologism) A form of English-language Internet slang related to dogs, using words such as doggo, woofer, bork, mlem, and heckin'.


do someone a frighten

en-verb

do someone a frighten (third-person singular simple present does someone a frighten, present participle doing someone a frighten, simple past did someone a frighten, past participle done someone a frighten)

does someone a frighten (present singular third-person)
doing someone a frighten (participle present)
did someone a frighten (past)
done someone a frighten (participle past)

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Intentionally incorrect grammar for comedic purposes; compare do a listen and can haz. Originated with the “Stop It Son, You Are Doing Me a Frighten” meme; first known use is on 8 November 2015, in an iFunny post by watarimono.

Together they hiked until they came upon a crevasse that was too wide to leap. To get across, they would have to climb down into the crevasse, cross over on a sliver of ice that served as a quasi bridge, then climb back up. Which did Stickeen a frighten. The previously unfazed dog was suddenly very fazed and absolutely, positively refused to cross.

2019 October, Mackenzi Lee, The History of the World in Fifty Dogs, Abrams, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, humorous) To frighten someone.


big dick energy

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The Spice Girls had Big Dick Energy in abundance, years before Twitter coined the term.

2018, Lauren Bravo, chapter 5, in What would the Spice Girls do?: How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN:

I didn't really want Brunhild being associated with big dick energy. We were just a fledgling nation, so it’d be bad for our image.

2018, Patora Fuyuhara, In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 11, →ISBN:

“Told you so.” My brother finished his drink and grabbed both their empty glasses. “He needs to quit worrying about upsetting people and use that big dick energy he’s got for his own good.”

2019, Kristin Harte, Penance: A Vigilante Justice Novel, Kinship Press,, →ISBN:

(slang, vulgar) Unassuming self-confidence.


modbot

(Internet) An automated software agent that moderates a discussion forum by removing unacceptable postings, etc.


memeless

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memeify

memeify (third-person singular simple present memeifies, present participle memeifying, simple past and past participle memeified)

memeifies (present singular third-person)
memeifying (participle present)
memeified (participle past)
memeified (past)

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Predictably, Americans took to Twitter to memeify the moment, joking that Alexa will now be calling us all “Mothaf*****” or demanding, “Where is my super suit?”

2020 December 22, Liz W. Faber, The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

(Internet slang) To form an Internet meme out of something.