egosurf vi.
To search the net for your name or links
to your web pages. Perhaps connected to long-established SF-fan
slang `egoscan', to search for one's name in a fanzine.
To search the net for your name or links
to your web pages. Perhaps connected to long-established SF-fan
slang `egoscan', to search for one's name in a fanzine.
Related:
- Jim. Your name...is Jim.
-- Spock to Kirk, "ST III:
The Search for Spock," stardate 8210... - home page n.
1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide
Web.
The term `home page' is perhaps a bit misleading because... - gopher n.
A type of Internet service first floated around
1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or... - The secret in the search for meaning is to find your
passion and pursue it... - well-connected adj.
Said of a computer installation,
asserts that it has reliable email links with the network... - well-connected: adj. Said of a computer installation,
asserts that it has reliable email links with the... - con n.
[from SF fandom] A science-fiction convention.
Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional... - Support your local search and rescue center --
GET LOST... - Support your local Search and Rescue unit --
get lost...
From the same category:
- stubroutine /stuhb'roo-teen/ n.
[contraction of `stub
subroutine'] Tiny,
often vacuous placeholder for a subroutine that ... - user-friendly adj.
Programmer-hostile. Generally used by
hackers in a critical tone,
to describe systems that hold the user's hand so... - golden adj.
[prob. from folklore's `golden egg'] When
used to describe a magnetic medium (e.g.
`golden disk', `golden tape'), describes one containing... - dumbass attack /duhm'as *-tak'/ n.
[Purdue] Notional
cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced,
especially one made while running as root under... - benchmark n.
[techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer
performance.
"In the computer industry, there are three kinds of...
