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Questions about Internet-related English words and phrases.
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opposite of 'via'?
From Wikipedia:
A trackback is one of the types of linkback methods for website authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of …
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Where does the term "Smurfing" come from?
This definition of smurfing comes from 1996 and the game Warcraft II when certain well-known players made up new names, pretend to play badly, then beat the other players. They picked the names PapaSm …
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Capitalizing a lower case screen name at the beginning of a sentence
Where possible, I would suggest avoiding putting a username at the start of a sentence, otherwise to pick a style and follow it. Above all, write clearly and unambiguously.
Are there any establish …
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Etymology of "favourite" as a verb
(Internet) To bookmark.
1. (Internet) To add to one's list of favorites on a website that allows users to compile such lists. … There's no entry (yet) at the Oxford English Dictionary, so when was this internet usage first used? Who popularised it and when? …
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Should the words "internet" and "web" be capitalized?
The Guardian style guide uses lowercase:
internet
net, web, world wide web
web, webpage, website, world wide web
. … More recently, a significant number of publications have switched to not capitalizing the noun "internet." …
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What is the best term to categorize a lolcat image and text?
Lolcat is an example of anthropomorphisation, internet meme and web humour. … The only image macro definition on Urban Dictionary is from way back in 2005:
A internet forum phrase originally coined in Something Awful forums (like nearly every other internet phrase, really), this …
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What is the origin of ZOMG?
From a since deleted Wikipedia article:
ZOMG is a Derivative of the Internet shorthand term for "Oh My God",
OMG. … In any case, the word was not
popular on the internet at large until its reinvention in 2003. …
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What did "google" mean in the 1900s?
Here's an attempt for an answer drawing from credible and/or official sources. The best sources we have are the books themselves that create the Ngram in the question. If we click through to some of t …
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Should I capitalize Twitter links?
This is a matter of style, so pick a style and apply it consistently.
Twitter allows mixed-case but case-insensitive usernames, which means they will display the username in the case the user chose, …
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Origin of the phrase "for the win"?
But how did this take off as FTW on the internet, and actually gather momentum? … The earliest archive of this internet slang page from 26th October 2005 says:
FTW — "For the win"; Indicates the end of the game, it is often used to reference the object responsible for victory. …
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What is the origin of != in the meaning "not equal to"?
Yes, this is from programming languages such as C and C++.
The symbol used to denote inequation — when items are not equal — is a
slashed equals sign "≠" (Unicode 2260).
Most programming l …
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