surf

v. [from the surf idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the
Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one is doing so with a
World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of surfing in to a
particular resource. Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped
using it since it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive,
couch-potato connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never
pleasant, and hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about surfing the net
tends to make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by
ignorami.

