Internet culture
(DDG Topics List)-zilla (suffix) - "-zilla" is an English suffix, a back-formation derived from the English name of the Japanese movie monster Godzilla.
1% rule (Internet culture) - In Internet culture, the 1% rule or the 90-9-1 principle reflects a theory that more people will lurk in a virtual community than will participate.
Acceptable use policy - An acceptable use policy is a set of rules applied by the owner/manager of a network, website or large computer system that restrict the ways in which the network site or system may be used.
Africa Online - Africa Online was the first internet service provider in Kenya, also in Cote d'Ivoire starting operations in 1995 and 1996 respectively.
alt.fan.warlord - alt.fan.warlord is a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to the dissection and flaming of signature files used in other Usenet groups.
alt.tasteless - alt.tasteless is a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to the discussion of tasteless and offensive subjects.
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Andrew Odlyzko - Andrew Michael Odlyzko is a mathematician and a former head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center.
Anonymous (group) - Anonymous is a label and Internet meme adopted within Internet culture to represent the actions of many online community users acting anonymously, usually toward a loosely agreed-upon goal.
Anthony G. Adams - Anthony G. Adams is an American entrepreneur and businessman.
AOL disk collecting - AOL disk collecting is the collecting of CD-ROMs and diskettes distributed by the America Online company, containing computer software for accessing the America Online service.
Avatar (computing) - An avatar is a computer user's representation of himself/herself or alter ego whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games, a two-dimensional icon or a one-dimensional...
b3ta - B3ta is a high-profile British website, described as a "puerile digital arts community" by The Guardian.
Baiter - A baiter is someone in an Internet discussion group who deliberately posts aggravating messages on a message board.
Bale Out - "Bale Out: RevoLucian's Christian Bale Remix!" is a satirical dance remix by American composer Lucian Piane, also known as RevoLucian, released on February 2, 2009, to YouTube and MySpace.
Barry Wellman - Barry Wellman, FRSC directs NetLab as the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
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BBC News Magazine Monitor - The Magazine Monitor is a column in the Magazine section of BBC News Online; the website of BBC News; where a witty and irreverent take on the day's news is collated.
Benevolent Dictator For Life - Benevolent Dictator For Life or BDFL is a title given to a small number of open source software development leaders.
Bibliophile mailing list - The Bibliophile Mailing List is an electronic mailing list for sellers and collectors of rare, out-of-print and scarce books.
BIFF - BIFF, later sometimes B1FF, was a pseudonym on, and the prototypical newbie of, Usenet, the precursor to the World Wide Web.
BigChampagne - BigChampagne Media Measurement is a technology-driven media measurement company.
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Bikicsunáj - Bikicsunáj is an Internet meme that appeared in Hungary in May 2010.
Black hat - A black hat is the villain or bad guy, especially in a western movie in which such a character would wear a black hat in contrast to the hero's white hat.
Blaxxun - Blaxxun originally named "Black Sun" was one of the first companies to develop a multi-user virtual reality 3D chat platform designed for the internet using VRML.
Block (internet) - On the internet, a block is a technical measure intended to restrict access to information or resources.
Block (Internet) - On the Internet, a block is a technical measure intended to restrict access to information or resources.
Blogger's Code of Conduct - The Blogger's Code of Conduct is a proposal by Tim O'Reilly for bloggers to enforce civility on their blogs by being civil themselves and moderating comments on their blog.
Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign - The Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign is an online advocacy campaign for intellectual freedom on the Internet, orchestrated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
BlueHat - BlueHat or Blue Hat is a term used to refer to outside computer security consulting firms that are employed to bug test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.
Brain-disabled characters - The brain-disabled characters is the name of a kind of Internet slang used by some after-ninety netizens.
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Brazilian Internet Phenomenon - The Brazilian Internet Phenomenon is a term used to describe the massive adoption by Brazilians of an Internet service exceeding the number of members of the original nationality of the service.
Bride scam - A Bride scam is a Confidence trick scheme to cheat possible grooms by foreign alleged brides.
Bulletin board system - A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program.
Bump (Internet) - To bump a thread on an Internet forum is to post a reply to it purely in order to raise the thread's profile.
BuzzFeed - BuzzFeed is a website that combines a technology platform for detecting viral content with an editorial selection process to provide a snapshot of "the viral web in realtime."
Canada on Strike - "Canada On Strike" is the fourth episode of the twelfth season of the animated series South Park.
Capping (Mystery Science Theater 3000) - Capping is an Internet-based pastime and collaborative improvisational comedy project, in which each participant types a caption text beneath a screen capture.
Carr–Benkler wager - The Carr–Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems.
Chat room - The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing.
Chatroulette - Chatroulette was a website that pairs random strangers from around the world together for webcam-based conversations.
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Chinwag - Chinwag is an Internet community based in Soho, London, United Kingdom consisting of new media and digital marketing professionals.
Church of the SubGenius - The Church of the SubGenius is a religious organization often seen as a "parody religion", that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, UFOs, and popular culture.
Clay Shirky - Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
Collaborative blog - A collaborative blog is a type of weblog in which posts are written and published by more than one author.
Collusion Syndicate - The COLLUSION SYNDICATE, formerly the Collusion Group, was a Computer Security and Internet Politics Special Interest Group founded in 1995 and effectively disbanded around 2002.
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Cooperative web - The Cooperative Web or Co-Web refers to a browser-based platform that promises to replicate the power of face-to-face communications via web-touch without sacrificing the quality of human intera...
Corporate blog - Corporate blogs may be written primarily for consumers or primarily for other businesses.
Crowd funding - Crowd funding describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money together, usually via the Internet, in order to support efforts initiated by ot...
CrystEngCommunity - CrystEngCommunity is a virtual web community for people working in the field of crystal engineering.
Cube News 1 - Cube News 1 is a bi-weekly comic video about surviving life in the corporate cubicle. From Cube News Central, her cubicle, Kim, a high-spirited cube worker, does these two to five minu...
Cyberchondria - Cyberchondria refers to the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomology based on review of search results and literature online.
Cyberchurch - Cyberchurch is the extension of the church universal into cyberspace.
Cyberculture - Cyberculture is the culture that has emerged, or is emerging, from the use of computer networks for communication, entertainment and business.
Cyberfeminism - Cyberfeminism is a feminist community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist interactions with and acts in cyberspace.
Digerati - The digerati are the elite of the computer industry and online communities.
Discussion group - A discussion group is an online forum for individuals to discuss various topics amongst each other.
Distributed moderation - Distributed moderation is a form of comment moderation that allows the users to moderate themselves.
Dot com party - A dot com party is a social and business networking mixer hosted by an Internet-related business, typically for promotional purposes or to celebrate a corporate event such as a product launch, v...
Douglas Anthony Cooper - Douglas Anthony Cooper is a writer originally from Canada, who lived for many years in New York City and currently resides in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Download This Song - "Download This Song" is the second single from MC Lars' fifth studio album, The Graduate, and features Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup.
Dramatic Chipmunk - Dramatic Chipmunk, also known as Dramatic Prairie Dog, is a popular viral video.
DrinkExchange - DrinkExchange was a monthly social and business networking party started in San Francisco, California during the dot com bubble.
Dudeism - Dudeism is a religion whose primary objective is to promote a philosophy and lifestyle represented by the character of "the Dude" in the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski.
Eats Media, LLC - Eats Media is a company that provides dining and restaurant information through a variety of different media vehicles.
Editor war - Editor war is the common name for the rivalry between users of the vi and Emacs text editors.
Egosurfing - Egosurfing is the practice of searching for one's own given name, surname, full name, pseudonym, or screen name on a popular search engine, to see what results appear.
Elgg (software) - Elgg is open source social networking software that provides individuals and organizations with the components needed to create an online social environment.
Emochila - Emochila, Inc. is a Web 2.0 company that operates a custom website development service for Certified Public Accountants.
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Emoticon - An emoticon is a textual expression representing the face of a writer's mood or facial expression.
Encyclopedia Dramatica - Encyclopædia Dramatica is a satirical open wiki built on MediaWiki software.
English in computing - English is the lingua franca in computing and on the Internet, and the computing vocabulary of many languages is borrowed from English.
EPIC FU - EPIC FU is an award-winning web series created by new media producers Steve Woolf and Zadi Diaz.
eRhetoric - eRhetoric is considered the art of persuasion in digital media and manipulating content to fit the medium in which it is presented.
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ErrMess Remote Computer - ErrMess Remote Computer is a Microsoft Windows based software, more commonly known as a RAT Prank.
European Feminist Forum - The European Feminist Forum is a web-based space for dialogue for feminists in Europe.
Everest Syndrome - The Everest Syndrome, named by Maddux refers to the tendency of teachers to feel the need to use technology, specifically the Internet, in their classrooms simply because it exists.
Evolver (3D Avatar Web Portal) - Evolver web site claim to be the first solution to provides a central portal to design, manage and transport 3D digital avatars.
ew-too - ew-too, short for Elsewhere Too, was the first publicly available code base for Internet talkers and was written by Simon "Burble" Marsh in 1992, following the demise of the second inter...
Faces in Places - Faces in Places is a photoblog that features photographs of faces found in everyday places.
Fan film - A fan film is a film or video inspired by a film, television program, comic book or a similar source, created by fans rather than by the source's copyright holders or creators.
Fansite - A fansite, fan site, or fanpage is a website created and maintained by a fan or devotee interested in a celebrity, thing, or a particular cultural phenomenon.
Farm Town - Farm Town is a free, Flash-based browser multiplayer game for the social network platforms Facebook and Myspace.
Fifth power - The fifth power is a term, apparently created by Ignacio Ramonet, that intends a continuation of the series of three classic branches of Baron de Montesquieu's separation of powers and the fourt...
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First Monday (journal) - First Monday is an electronic peer-reviewed journal for articles about the Internet.
Flamebait - Flamebait is a message posted to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response or argument over a topic the troll...
Flaming (Internet) - Flaming is hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users.
Flash animation - A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film which is created using Adobe Flash or similar animation software and often distributed in the .swf file format.
Forumwarz - Forumwarz is a multiplayer browser-based role-playing game which is a parody of Internet culture designed by Crotch Zombie Productions, a Toronto-based company run by Robin Ward, Mike Drach, and...
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Free-radical (culture) - In culture, Free-radical is a term regarding a sub-cultural trend originating in the early 21st Century.
Freezerburns - FreezerBurns is a popular web series created by new media producer Gregory Ng. The show premiered on October 1st, 2008 with Gregory Ng as the host.
GameTZ.com - GameTZ.com is an online trading community established in late 1996 which allows people to trade video games, books, music, movies, and other items through negotiating with other traders from cou...
Geek - The word geek is a slang term, noting individuals as "One who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of pokemon, electronics, etc."
Gnomedex (conference) - Gnomedex is a single-track technology conference hosted by Chris Pirillo, the owner of Lockergnome, LLC and is produced by Chris Pirillo and his staff at Lockergnome.
GNU Manifesto - The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman and published in March 1985 in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Software Tools as an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project, and to...
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Godwin's law - Godwin's law is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 which has become an Internet adage.
Goldbricking - Goldbricking, in today's terms, generally refers to staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons while maintaining the appearance of working, which can lead to inefficiency.
Hacker Manifesto - The Conscience of a Hacker is a small essay written January 8, 1986 by a hacker who went by the handle of The Mentor.
Hit-and-run posting - Hit-and-run posting refers to a tactic where a poster at an Internet forum enters, makes a post, only to disappear immediately after.
Hot or Not - Hot or Not is a rating site that allows users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others.
Hub Culture - Hub Culture is a social network service that operates the virtual currency Ven, and according to its website, is "the first to merge online and physical world environments."
Hypersociability - In the context of transmedia storytelling, hypersociability is the encouraged involvement of media consumers in a story through ordinary social interaction.
Information addiction - Information addiction is a condition whereby connected users experience a hit of pleasure, stimulation and escape and technology affects attention span, creativity and focus which has be...
Instant messaging - Instant messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based communication between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared software clients.
Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 - The Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 was founded by Konrad Becker and Francisco de Sousa Webber in 1994 as an international competence platform for the critical use of information and c...
Internaut - Internaut is a term for a designer, operator, or technically capable user of the Internet.
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Internet addiction disorder - Internet addiction disorder, or, more broadly, Internet overuse, problematic computer use or pathological computer use, is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life.
Internet and Society - Internet and Society is a research field that addresses the interrelationship of Internet and society, i.e. of how society has changed the Internet and how the Internet is shaped by society.
Internet art - Internet art is art which uses the Internet as its primary medium or platform.
Internet begging - Internet begging, cyber- begging, or internet panhandling is the online version of traditional begging, asking strangers for money to meet immediate and other needs.
Internet church - An Internet Church or 'Cyberchurch' is a gathering of religious believers facilitated through the use of online video stream, audio stream and or written messages whose primary purpose is to all...
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Internet entrepreneur - An Internet entrepreneur is an entrepreneur that applies innovation to create new businesses on the Internet.
Internet homicide - Internet homicide refers to a killing in which victim and perpetrator met online, in some cases having known each other previously only through the Internet.
Internet linguistics - Internet linguistics is a new subdomain of linguistics suggested by Professor David Crystal.
Internet Oracle - The Internet Oracle is an effort at collective humor in a pseudo-Socratic question-and-answer format.
Internet Relay Chat subculture - IRC subculture refers to the particular set of social features common to interaction on the various Internet Relay Chat systems across the world, and the culture associated with them.
Internet Resource Management - Internet resource management has been the domain of Internet technicians in managing the addressing structure of the Internet to enable the explosive growth of Internet use, and to have enough ...
Internet slang - Internet slang is a type of slang that Internet users have popularized, and in many cases, have coined.
Internet spelling - Internet spelling is a term to describe the use of words in an official Internet-related context, but are misspelled to such a point that a large number of people use the alternative spelling.
Internet studies - Internet Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social, psychological, pedagogical, political, technical, cultural, artistic, and other dimensions of the internet and associated info...
Internet suicide - An Internet suicide is a suicide conducted in full view of the public via the Internet, or pursuant to a cybersuicide pact, which is a suicide pact made between individuals who meet on the Internet.
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Internet time - Internet time was a common catchphrase that originated during the late-1990s Internet boom.
Intimate media - Intimate media are media artifacts created and collected by individuals, friends, and families to capture and commemorate aspects of family and intimate relationships.
Joe Paradise - Joe Paradise is the title of a Flash cartoon written, created and directed by Roque Ballesteros.
Jon Gunnells - Jon Gunnells, a 2007 Michigan State University graduate is an American writer who was named runner-up in the first ever McDonald's Next Great Sportswriter competition on FOXSports.com, the MSN-...
Kevin Whitrick - Kevin Neil Whitrick was a British citizen and an electrical engineer.
Kinnernet - Kinnernet is an annual networking event for Internet professionals, held at the Ohalo Resort in Israel every Spring since 2003.
Know Your Meme - Know Your Meme is a database and web series from Rocketboom which documents various internet memes and other online phenomena.
Kudzu.com - Kudzu.com is an online directory that aggregates user reviews and ratings on local businesses, merchants, and service providers.
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Kuso - Kuso is the term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody.
LAN messenger - A LAN messenger is an instant messaging program designed for use within a single local area network.
Leet - Leet, also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet.
Lumber Cartel - The Lumber Cartel was a facetious conspiracy theory popularized on USENET that claimed anti-spammers were secretly paid agents of lumber companies.
Lurker - In Internet culture, a lurker is a person who reads discussions on a message board, newsgroup, chatroom, file sharing or other interactive system, but rarely or never participates actively.
LXer - LXer Linux News is an international independent news and opinion source serving the free and open source software community.
Martian language - Martian language is a term to describe words beyond common knowledge in the Chinese speaking cyberspace.
Masyanya - Masyanya is a popular Russian online cartoon made with Macromedia Flash animation, created by Oleg Kuvayev.
MeBeam - MeBeam is a video chat website, allowing anyone to create video conference rooms for up to 18 people.
MegaHAL - MegaHAL is a computer conversation simulator, or "chatterbot", created by Jason Hutchens.
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Mina (German singer) - Mina is a German pop musician who became famous because of a video at the online portal Myvideo which was watched by four million viewers.
Minerva (Daum Agora user) - Minerva is the internet username of a "netizen" who wrote about the Korean economy and the economic policies of the Korean government.
Mitch Trale - Mitch Trale is an American New Media artist from Berkeley, California, who lives and works in Oakland, California.
MobuzzTV - MobuzzTV was a vlog that posted a new five-minute high-quality video show recorded once a day in Madrid, Spain.
Moderation system - On Internet websites which invite users to post comments, a moderation system is the method the webmaster chooses to sort contributions which are irrelevant, obscene, illegal, or insulting with ...
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Mojave phone booth - The Mojave phone booth was a lone telephone booth in what is now the Mojave National Preserve in California, which attracted online attention in 1997 due to its unusual location.
Mouchette.org - Mouchette.org is an interactive website created in 1996 by a pseudonymous character, an Amsterdam-based artist who calls herself "Mouchette".
MSTing - MSTing or MiSTing is a method of mocking a show in the style of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 and, in particular, is a form of fan fiction in which writers mock ot...
Music download - A music download is the transferral of a song from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer.
Münchausen by Internet - Münchausen by Internet is a pattern of behavior in which Internet users seek attention by feigning illnesses in online venues such as chat rooms, message boards, and Internet Relay Chat.
National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month is an annual creative writing project coordinated by the non-profit organization The Office of Letters and Light.
National Poetry Writing Month - National Poetry Writing Month is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month.
Nerd - Nerd is a term, often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who avidly pursues intellectual activities, technical or scientific endeavors, esoteric knowledge, o...
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net.art - The term "net.art" is also used as a synonym for net art or Internet art and covers a much wider range of artistic practices.
Netiquette - Netiquette is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to : blogs and forums.
Netocracy - Netocracy was a term invented by the editorial board of the American technology magazine Wired in the early 1990s.
Network media - Network media refers to media mainly used in computer networks such as the Internet.
New media art preservation - New media art preservation, a form of Art conservation, is the study and practice of techniques for sustaining artworks created using digital, biological, performative, and other variable media.
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Nirvino - Nirvino is an iPhone application and website devoted to reviews, ratings, and other information about wine.
Norwescon - Norwescon is one of the largest regional science fiction and fantasy conventions in the United States.
NovoLogic.com - NovoLogic.com is an online local marketing, communications, consulting, training, Elearning and interactive agency that provides services to its clients in the areas of digital advertising, cont...
NUTS (talker) - NUTS, or Neil's Unix Talk Server is a talker base written in C programming language by Neil Robertson, and got the status as the best-known talker base by 1996, surpassing ew-too.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog - "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which began as the caption of a cartoon by Peter Steiner published by The New Yorker on July 5, 1993.
Online chat - Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or text-based group chat, using tools such as instant messengers, ...
Online community - An online community is a virtual community that exists online whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership rituals.
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Online counseling - Online counseling refers to the provision of professional mental health counseling services concerns via the internet.
Online diary - An online diary is a personal diary or journal that is published on the World Wide Web on a personal website or a diary-hosting website.
Online disinhibition effect - In psychology, the online disinhibition effect refers to the way people behave on the Internet with less restraint than in real-world situations.
Online Gamers Anonymous - On-Line Gamers Anonymous is a twelve-step program for recovery from video game addiction established as a non-profit organization in the United States.
Online quiz - Online quizzes are quizzes that are published on the Internet and are generally for entertainment purposes.
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Open Cobalt - Open Cobalt is a free and open source software platform for constructing, accessing, and sharing virtual world both on local area networks or across the Internet, without any requirement for cen...
Open community project - Open Community Projects take place in the Real World as well as in the "Virtual World" and are often supported by Open Software such as wiki's, mailinglists/discussion fora's, chat, polling tool...
Open content film - An open content film is a movie or film produced using open source software and open source methodology.
Open source film - Open source films are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open source software methodologies.
OurPrisoner - OurPrisoner was a 2006 Internet reality television show that featured 35-year-old man Kieran Vogel, who lived on camera for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for an entirety of six months in a ...
Outalot - Outalot is a Web 2.0 and Mobile Web service that provides a social networking, user review, and local search of restaurants, movies, and stores.
Owned - Owned is a slang word, that originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer.
OZ Virtual - OZ Virtual was a 3D world viewer created by OZ Interactive that enabled real-time collaboration communications in shared spaces on the Internet with a strong focus on creative content production.
Partido da Imprensa Golpista - Partido da Imprensa Golpista or Pro-coup Press Party is a term which became widely used among Brazilian websurfers since 2007 to characterize the Brazilian mainstream mass media.
Patriotic Nigras - The Patriotic Nigras, are a group of griefers in the online world of Second Life.
Penny Arcade Expo - The Penny Arcade Expo is a semi-annual gamer festival held in Seattle and Boston.
PersonRatings.com - PersonRatings.com was a website where users could rate and review individuals, regardless of profession.
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Phile - Philes commonly refer to files about hacking in the days of BBSs. Ph may have been originally used as homage to the phone/phreak.
Pimp My Search - Pimp My Search was a novelty website to create a Google lookalike webpage, replacing the word "Google" with a word or phrase of the user's choice.
Posting style - When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles.
PowerPoint animation - PowerPoint animation is a form of animation which uses Microsoft PowerPoint and similar programs to create a game or movie.
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Pranknet - Pranknet is a Canadian-based anonymous prank calling virtual community responsible for damage to hotels and fast food restaurants of more than $60,000 as well as multiple instances of telephone ...
Public Netbase - Public Netbase was a cultural media initiative, open access internet platform, and advocate for the development of electronic art.
Purity test - A purity test is a self-graded survey that assesses the participants' supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters, generally on a percentage scale with 100% being the most and 0% being the l...
Qaym - Qaym is a review site specialized at user-based reviews on restaurants around the world and mainly Arabian restaurants in the Arabian region.The website runs a social networking, user review, an...
R U Professional - "R U Professional" is a song by the indie rock band The Mae Shi, inspired by the audio of a July 2008 outburst of actor Christian Bale on the set of Terminator Salvation.
RadCon - RadCon is a not-for-profit organization that promotes education in Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Razorback2 - Razorback2 was a server of the eDonkey network, known for being able to handle 1 million users simultaneously, meaning that it had capacity for 1.3 million users and was indexing around 170 mill...
Red Room (Animation) - Red Room is an interactive Adobe Flash horror animation, entirely in Japanese, about an urban legend called "the Red Room".
ReputationDefender - ReputationDefender is a company located in Redwood City, California that sells online reputation management and internet privacy.
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Robert Christophe - Cube News 1 is a bi-weekly comic video about surviving life in the corporate cubicle. From Cube News Central, her cubicle, Kim, a high-spirited cube worker, does these two to five minu...
Rocketboom - Rocketboom is a daily vlog produced by Andrew Baron and hosted by Molly Windman as of July 6, 2009.
ROFLCon - ROFLCon is a biennial convention of Internet memes that first took place April 25-26 2008, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Russian Internet culture - Runet is the name Russian-speaking Internet users commonly use to call the segment of Internet written or understood in the Russian language.
Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival - The Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival, is an international genre film festival devoted to fantasy and science fiction cinema from across the globe.
Script Frenzy - Script Frenzy is an international screenwriting challenge which began in June 2007.
Searchlight BBS - Searchlight BBS is a bulletin board system developed in 1985 by Frank LaRosa for the TRS-80.
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Shipping (fandom) - Shipping, derived from the word "relationship", is a general term for fans' emotional and/or intellectual involvement with the ongoing development of romance in a work of fiction.
Shredder 1.0 - Shredder 1.0 is a work of Net Art created by Mark Napier.
Signature block - A signature block is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or forum post.
Signature program - A signature program is a small, highly condensed piece of code, usually three or fewer lines in length which when compiled produces an interesting pattern or function that is not always obvious ...
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Signature tag - Signature tags or sig tags are small digital images that are used to accompany an HTML-formatted email or Internet forum post.
Sleeveface - Sleeveface is an internet phenomenon wherein one or more persons obscure or augment body parts with record sleeve, causing an illusion.
Smiley - A smiley or happy face, is a stylized representation of a smiling human face, commonly represented as a yellow circle with two black dots representing eyes and a black half circle represe...
Snooth - Snooth is a social networking website based in New York City, USA. It was founded in November 2006 by Philip J. K. James, a graduate of Oxford University and Columbia Business School.
Social media and suicide - Social media and suicide have important relationships.
Social news - The term social news refers to websites where users submit and vote on news stories or other links, thus determining which links are presented.
Social software - Social software encompasses a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data.
South Korean web culture - South Korean web culture indicates distinct activities that South Korean internet users enjoy on the web.
SpoCon - SpoCon is a full-spectrum science fiction fan convention held annually on the campus of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, USA. SpoCon is a non-profit event held to benefit the Spokane ...
Star Wars Kid - "Star Wars Kid" is an Internet meme involving a video of a high school student from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada, wielding a golf ball retriever like a lightsaber.
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Status message (instant messaging) - A status message is a function of some instant messaging applications whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users if they attempt to make contact.
Steamcon - Steamcon® is one of the largest regional steampunk conventions/symposium in the United States.
Streisand effect - The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of causing the information to be publicized wi...
StudlyCaps - StudlyCaps is a variation of CamelCase in which the individual letters in a word are capitalized and not capitalized, either at random or in some pattern.
System Administrator Appreciation Day - System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay or SAAD, was created by system administrator Ted Kekatos.
TalkBack Reader Response System - The TalkBack Reader Response System was one of the first systems used on the Internet to allow people to respond to articles posted on a web site.
That Guy with the Glasses - That Guy with the Glasses is a website that showcases original entertainment for an audience including video game enthusiasts and movie buffs.
The Dump - The Dump is a blog initiated in 2006 by the new media artist Maurice Benayoun, about undone art projects.
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The Meta Network - The Meta Network is an free online community that describes itself as being "dedicated to learning and creative freedom".
The Spot - The Spot, or thespot.com, was the first episodic fiction website, and pioneered the underwriting of bandwidth and production costs by offering paid advertising banners on the web pages and...
The Thing (art project) - The Thing is an international net-community of artists and art-related projects that was started in 1991 by Wolfgang Staehle.
Time Cube - Time Cube is a website created by Gene Ray in 1997 where he sets out his personal theory of reality, also called Time Cube.
Trojan Room coffee pot - The Trojan Room coffee machine was the inspiration for the world's first webcam.
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Ty Girlz - Ty Girlz are girl dolls manufactured by Ty Inc.. Similar to the Ty Beanie Babies the Ty Girlz are on a limited release pattern with dolls being introduced and older ones retired at various times.
Ty Hildenbrandt - Ty Hildenbrandt is the winner of the first ever McDonald's Next Great Sportswriter competition on FOXSports.com, the MSN-affiliated website for Fox Sports.
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny - The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, often shortened to Ultimate Showdown, is a comical song and video released on December 7, 2005.
uXu - uXu, Underground eXperts United, underground ezine formed in Sweden by ex-members of the Swedish Hackers Association, writing ASCII text files, influenced by cDc. When the group folded they had ...
Victorian Internet - The Victorian Internet is a term coined in the late 20th century to describe advanced 19th century telecommunications technologies such as the telegraph and pneumatic tubes.
Vidoosh - Vidoosh TV is an Iranian Video Sharing, based in Brussels, Belgium, Founded in November 2007, Vidoosh TV is the first Iranian video sharing website which is specialized in Iranian & Central Asia...
Virtual assistance - Virtual assistance is the professional service of remote administrative office and other specialized support by a virtual assistant who works with clients in an ongoing, collaborative profession...
Virtual avatar - An avatar is a computer user's representation of himself/herself or alter ego whether in the form of a three-dimensional model used in computer games, a two-dimensional icon or a one-dimensional...
Virtual community - A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.
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Virtual hands on training - Virtual Hands-on Training blends the qualities of Instructor-Led classroom training with the convenience of a virtual, online classroom.
Voidmstr's law - Voidmstr's Law is a principle proposed by Dennis Wilen in 1992, which suggests a primary motive force for the development or expansion of communication capacities, in networked publishing systems.
Warnock's Dilemma - Warnock's Dilemma, named for its originator Bryan Warnock, is the problem of interpreting a lack of response to a posting on a mailing list, Usenet newsgroup, or Web forum.
Web chat - A web chat is a system that allow users to communicate in real time using easily accessible web interfaces.
Web conferencing - Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings, training, or presentations via the Internet.
Webisode - A webisode is a short episode which airs initially as Internet television, either download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television.
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Wifipicning - The term "Wifipicning", a combination of the words WiFi, picnic, and happening, describes a social gathering of people, similar to the flashmobs or other social networks born out of new commun...
Worknet - A worknet is the term coined to describe a group of online participants and applications to collaborate a certain cause or purpose.
Worldbeam - Also known as the Inside-Out web, Worldbeam is the brainchild of David Gelernter and Ajay Royan and is some sort of replacement for the World Wide Web.
X-Face - An X-Face is a small bitmap image which is added to a Usenet posting or e-mail message, typically showing a picture of the author's face.
Year 2000 problem - The Year 2000 problem was a problem for both digital and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits.
Yelp, Inc. - Yelp, Inc. is a Web 2.0 company that operates a social networking, user review, and local search web site of the same name.
YouTube Awards - The YouTube Awards are awards given out as formalized recognition of the best YouTube videos of the preceding year, such as favorite music or comedy genres, as voted by the YouTube community.
Zhu Ling (poisoning victim) - Zhu Lingphoto is best known as the victim of an unsolved 1995 thallium poisoning case in Beijing, China.
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