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Monday, November 7, 2011

surfing the net

During a small unrelated research, I've suddenly ran into a question I haven't wondered about before: who coined the term "surfing the net". Another one of those terms which surprisingly did not rise of their own accord. It turns out Librarian Jean Armour Polly is responsible for the term, as she herself tells about it, it came to her while writing an article on the experience of using the young early '90s internet, and searching for a term that will express the fun, the skill and the endurance needed, as well as a term that would evoke a sense of randomness, chaos and some danger. Thus was coined the term "Information Surfer". 

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