:channel hopping: [IRC, GEnie] n. 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'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
{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'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- channel hopping n.
[common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly
switch channels on IRC,
or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly... - surf 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... - 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... - channel: [IRC] n. The basic unit of discussion on {IRC}.
Once one joins a channel, everything one types is... - 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... - kick: [IRC] v. To cause somebody to be removed from a {IRC}
channel,
an option only available to {CHOP}s. This is an ... - channel op: /chan'l op/ [IRC] n. Someone who is endowed with
privileges on a particular {IRC} channel;
commonly abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These... - 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...
From the same category:
- McCoy: "How can you think of food at a time like this?"
Kirk:
"First order of business...survival." Carol: "There's... - With a cucumber, you never have to say you're sorry.
Reasons why cucumbers are better than... - There is no time like the
pleasant... - Why don't you come up and see me sometime?
- Mae... - Native Americans do it with
reservations...
