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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>surf</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="support.html" title="support"/><link rel="next" href="Suzie-COBOL.html" title="Suzie COBOL"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">surf</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="support.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Suzie-COBOL.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="surf"/><dt xmlns="" id="surf"><b>surf</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the ‘surf’ idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels]
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To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp. if one
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is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of
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<span class="firstterm">surfing in</span> to a particular
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resource.</p><p>Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since
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it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato
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connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and
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hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about “<span class="quote">surfing the net</span>”
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tends to make hackers feel a bit as though their home is being overrun by
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ignorami.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="support.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Suzie-COBOL.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">support </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Suzie COBOL</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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