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WEB WORDOLOGY

A new generation of Websters. As the world adapts itself through the collective fibers of Internet and WWW, as people across the world meet and exchange ideals and ideas, clearly nothing is so addictive as the invention of new language. Everyday I find myself yearning to catch the feel of something I did - a need to explain the inner workings to those who are with me in real time and those who I meet in the virtual nix. Though tongue in cheek (and isn't so much play a required part of it all?), the words below become a part of my vocabulary and therefore a part of myself. I am a net girl, after all. Thanks to all my friends who have added their own outlooks to this glossary.

fRc: friggin REALITY check...leaving your screen for the real world. Not always condusive to joy.
 Screentripping: Formerly Webchasing Following links from page to page without any specific stopping point in mind. Another term for browsing.
 Netkin: People that you met on the Net that have become family.
 Webfoot: The user who has adapted so well to the Net that nothing is impossible. Usually holding conversations in multiple chat lines, e-mailing, working on their homepage and cleaning their harddrive all at the same time.
 Webchasing: Following another person online from place to place. Associated mainly with chatlines.
 Wordicon: A little picture used in place of a word.
 Screendoor: Using your machine to become interactive with the world.
Webon! An informal end-tag for e-mail messages or chatting sessions. A '90s "Keep on Truckin'!"

Apostrification: All the extra little **!!!!$$'s you add when you want to make your point!!!!! Example: HEY YOU!! (caps indicate yelling); Where ARE you??? (html tags to change the look); *She looks around the room, wondering where he went!!!???* (enclosing descriptive actions in asterisks). You get the idea...
Nettl'd Feeling of frustration when your machine crashes during important downloads or conversations.

Fondlenetting Like "Cyberflirting," though a bit more intense.
Dinterrupted Leaving, unwillingly, the Net, to make dinner for the kid.

The following Webwords were given to me by my good friend John C. They relate quite well with chatlines. If you've never been to a chatline, where you can talk to people from all over the world in realtime, you should try it at least once. Of course you could become any of the words listed below!!!

Netionary ...the dictionary that you wish people had used when they keep misspelling monosyllable words...
Netapation ....the suspense you feel when you are waiting for a reply that seems like it takes forever to get, but it has only been a few minutes.
Netattack ...the servers crashed, you have lost all your chat partners...just when it was getting good..you can't get back on, but you still frantically hit the update button hoping for divine intervention to resume were you left off.
Fu------shi---stupidnet ....the word that follows after divine intervention fails to work.
Netritis ...the chronic fatigue of staying 8 hours on the net and having every muscle in your body ache from being in that one position for so long and having to walk bent over until the kinks are worked out.
Netfounded ...the constant hoping that you will get in a conversation...a hoping so bad that you sit on the edge of you chair for hours not willing to move because you might miss that "one" person to chat with.
Gaggle'Onet ...the umpteen million private messages you recieve on a good night...none of which you can remember what you previously wrote to them....this leads to Bullnetting.
Bullnetting ...the fishing for information in order to save face after you have encountered GaggleO'net.
Sacrinet ...the sacrifices (i.e., not going to the bathroom, eating, going out, calling family and friends, getting off work early, etc... .) that one makes to get on the internet.
Netography ...the biography you wish you had on some of the people you chat with before they turned out to be psycho hose beasts.
Netdamn(ed) ...the damned if you do and damned if you don't feeling you have when your server kicks you off and you can't get back on...and you are at the mercy of this damn thing...
Snacknet ...the collection of wrapper, cups, half eaten food, etc...that is cluttered around your computer station.(for the home computer user) For the lab junkies we have the food that is hidden in their backpack...trying not to get caught by the nerdy lab assistant.
Netbelly ...the actual figure you would have if you consumed all the imaginary alcohol that is served to you on the chat line.

And more! Thanks to Sean C.

BRB be right back RT real time VT virtual time
cyber: v. to engage in cybersex with someone; he cybered with her.

Other Web Dictionaries

The New Hackers Dictionary Ruthlessly stolen from my friend Gilhooley. :)

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Updated April 22, 1996

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