Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
addy | an email address. |
advergaming | a method of interactive marketing in which free downloadable computer games appear on websites (often as pop-ups) to advertise a company or product. |
arpa | a site concerned with internet infrastructure. |
bashtag | a hashtag used for critical or abusive comments. |
botnet | a network of infected computers. |
chatroom | a virtual room for computer conversation. |
clickbait | intriguing or sensational hyperlinks that encourage readers to click through to another website. |
clickjacking | the practice of using a disguised hyperlink to direct an internet user to a website he or she does not wish to visit. |
clickstream | a path used in navigating cyberspace. |
clicktivism | a policy of using the internet to take direct and often militant action to achieve a political or social aim. |
clickwrap | of a computer button, consented to by user clicking; (noun) an agreement by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen. |
conf | an online conference. |
cyberbullying | bullying via the medium of the Internet. |
cybercafe | a cafe where computers can be used. |
cybercast | a broadcast over the Internet. |
cyberporn | pornography on the Internet. |
cybersecurity | the state of being safe from electronic crime and the measures taken to achieve this. |
cybersex | sexual communication available through computer networks. |
cyberspace | the virtual world of computers. |
cybersquatting | the practice of registering an internet domain name that is likely to be wanted by another person or organisation. |
cyberstalking | the practice of using electronic communications to harass someone persistently. |
darknet | the collection of networks and other technologies that enable people to illegally share copyrighted digital files with little or no fear of detection. |
datagram | a communication channel that uses information routed through a packet-switching network. |
dataveillance | the monitoring of a person's activities by studying the data trail created by actions such as credit card purchases, cell phone calls, and Internet use. |
download | to transfer data from a large computer to a smaller one. |
downloadable | capable of being downloaded. |
downvote | to register disapproval of (a post) on social media. |
dox | to publish personal information about (a person) on the internet. |
ebaying | (Tradename) selling on eBay. |
ebook | a book in electronic form. |
egosurf | to search for one's own name on the internet. |
electronic mail; (verb) to send electronic mail over computer telephone lines. | |
emailable | able to be sent by email. |
emoticon | in computing an icon in email to express feeling. |
evernet | a hypothetical form of the Internet. |
extranet | a type of network like the internet. |
ezine | a magazine available only in electronic form, for example on the internet. |
fansite | a website devoted to fans of a particular celebrity, TV programme, etc. |
favicon | a 16x16 pixel square icon associated with a particular website or webpage. |
frape | to alter the personal details on a social website without the owner's consent. |
frapeage | the practice of altering information in a person's profile on a social networking website without his or her permission. |
fusk | to obtain data from (a website) by using a fusker. |
glurge | sentimental stories sent by email. |
goatse | a deliberately shocking and offensive, usually pornographic, image placed maliciously by someone into a website. |
googlewhack | an Internet search that produces one hit only. |
hashtag | a word or name preceded by a hash symbol used to indicate the contents of a message on a social media site. |
homepage | the main page on a website. |
homesite | one's own site on the Internet. |
hotlink | an area on a website connecting to another site. |
hyperlink | a form of cross-reference in computer-readable text which allows instant access to related material; (verb) to connect by hyperlink. |
hypermedia | a system linking information stored as text, graphics, audio and video. |
inbox | on a computer, a folder in a mailbox in which incoming messages are stored and displayed. |
infobahn | the information superhighway. |
To share (a photograph) using the Instagram application > INSTAGRAMS, INSTAGRAMMING, INSTAGRAMMED. | |
internet | a worldwide computer network. |
interweb | a facetious name for the Internet, used to imply that the speaker has little understanding of or interest in the subject. |
intranet | a restricted network of computers such as within a company. |
leetspeak | a jargon used by some internet groups, in which standard English is translated into a mixture of letters, numerals, and symbols found on a computer keyboard. |
linkrot | the condition of a website link not being updated, with the result that the host website is no longer hyperlinked to the desired website. |
listserv | (Tradename) an Internet mailing service. |
livestream | to broadcast (an event) on the internet as it happens. |
login | access to a mainframe or server system. |
logoff | exit from a mainframe or server system. |
logon | access to a mainframe or server system. |
logout | exit from a mainframe or server system. |
lolz | (Slang) amusement derived from mischievous or provocative behaviour on the Internet. |
lulz | (Slang) amusement derived from mischievous or provocative behaviour on the Internet. |
metadata | information about information already supplied, eg details about a site on the Internet. |
microsite | a website that is intended for a specific limited purpose. |
midband | operating across a range of frequencies between broadband and narrowband. |
mouseover | on a web page, any item that changes or pops up when the pointer of a mouse moves over it. |
mousetrapping | a range of techniques employed to stop users leaving a website. |
multisite | having many sites. |
myspace | (Tradename) to search for a person's space on the MySpace website. |
netiquette | etiquette appropriate to the Internet. |
netspeak | the jargon of internet users. |
netsurf | to browse the internet for information. |
netsurfing | the act of browsing the internet for information. |
packetise | to form data into packets, or bundled units, according to a specific protocol. |
pageview | an electronic page of information displayed at the request of a user. |
paywall | an arrangement allowing access to a website only to users who have paid to subscribe to it. |
permalink | an internet hyperlink that is intended to be permanent. |
pharm | to redirect computer users from legitimate websites to counterfeit sites in order to gain confidential information about them. |
phish | to engage in phishing. |
phishing | the use of fraudulent emails and websites in order to extract personal details. |
podosphere | the collective podcasting social network or community. |
pwn | (Sl.) to dominate or humiliate an opponent esp in online gaming. |
remailer | an internet service that forwards emails anonymously. |
retweet | to tweet again. |
scambaiting | the practice of pretending to fall for online scams in order to waste the time of the perpetrators. |
scrobble | of an online music service, to record a listener's musical preferences and recommend similar music that he or she might enjoy. |
shopbot | a website that offers price comparisons for particular products. |
sidebar | a window shaped like a narrow column placed down the side of a web page, offering various options, information, etc. |
sig | a short personalized message at the end of an email, a signature. |
smishing | the practice of using fraudulent text messages to extract financial data from users for purposes of identity theft. |
smurfing | intentionally flooding a computer network with messages generated by a program. |
spam | (Tradename) a kind of pressed meat (verb) to send out electronic junk mail |
spim | spam received via an instant messaging system. |
spimming | the activity of sending unsolicited commercial communications via an instant-messaging system. |
stopword | a common word not used in computer search engines. |
subsite | a subordinate site. |
subtweet | on the Twitter application) to post a message about (another user), usually negative in its content, but not explicitly naming him or her. |
textism | the language, or a particular usage, characteristic of text messages. |
textonym | one of several words that may be keyed into a mobile phone by pressing the same sequence of buttons. |
textspeak | the style of language commonly used in text messages, including abbreviations, truncations, use of numbers, etc. |
tweetable | (Of a message) short enough to be posted on the Twitter website. |
tweetup | an online meeting of individuals arranged on the social networking website Twitter. |
vodcast | a video podcast; (verb) to make a video podcast. |
vodcaster | one who makes vodcasts. |
voip | a system for converting analogue signals to digital so that the telephone calls may be made over the internet. |
warchalking | the activity of drawing chalk symbols in public places in order to indicate the location of wireless Internet access points. |
webbie | a person who is well versed in the use of the World Wide Web. |
webcam | a camera that transmits messages over the Internet. |
webcast | a broadcast of an event over the Internet; (verb) to broadcast over the Internet. |
webcaster | one who broadcasts over the Internet. |
webcasting | the act of broadcasting over the Internet. |
webchat | to communicate in real time over the Internet. |
webify | to put a piece of (possibly already existing) material on the Web. |
webinar | an interactive seminar conducted over the World Wide Web. |
webisode | a short episode which airs initially as an Internet download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television. |
webliography | a list of items published on the internet, esp one indicating sources used in the preparation of a book or academic paper. |
webmail | a system of electronic mail that allows users to access their mail via a website. |
webpage | a page on a website. |
webring | a collection of websites from around the Internet joined together in a circular structure. |
website | in computing, a location on a network of internet documents. |
webspace | storage space on a web server. |
webwork | work done using the Internet. |
webzine | a magazine published on the Internet. |
whitelist | to place a name, email address, Web site address, or program on a list of items that are deemed spam- or virus-free. |
wiki | a collaborative web site that allows users to add, edit, and delete the site's content. |
wikiality | information that is assumed to be true because it appears in a wiki-based encylopaedia. |
wikitorial | a traditional editorial that can be edited in the fashion of a wiki. |
worksafe | of an internet link,etc., suitable for viewing in the workplace because of an absence of pornographic content. |