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surf
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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v. [from the surf idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the
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Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one is doing so with a
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World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of surfing in to a
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particular resource. Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped
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using it since it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive,
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couch-potato connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never
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pleasant, and hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about surfing the net
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tends to make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by
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ignorami.
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