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• channel hopping n. [common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
  This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, `channel surfing'....
• urf v. [from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp.
  if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of `surfing in' to a particular resource....
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• channel: [IRC] n. The basic unit of discussion on {IRC}.
  Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel....
• finn: [IRC] v. To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}.
  The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987....
• kick: [IRC] v. To cause somebody to be removed from a {IRC} channel, an option only available to {CHOP}s.
  This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme {flamage} or {flood}ing, but sometimes used at the chop's whim....
• channel op: /chan'l op/ [IRC] n. Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular {IRC} channel
  commonly abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These privileges include the right to {kick} users, to change various status bits, and to make others into CHOPs....
• CHOP /chop/ n. [IRC] See channel op.
• flood: [IRC] v. To dump large amounts of text onto an {IRC} channel.
  This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation....