Hi, The phrase "Surfing the Internet" is coined in march 17, 1992 by Jean Armour Polly (a.k.a. Net Mom) while under contract to Wilson Library Bulletin to write a beginner's level article about the Internet : http://www.netmom.com/about/surfing10.shtml One of multiple sources : Hobbes' Internet Timeline v6.0 http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ Best regards ---------------------- Serge Courrier Computer journalist Paris, France
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rune Dalgaard Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 3:29 PM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] surfing - when and who coined the term
Hi all
A question some might readily know the answer too.
Is it known when and by whom the notion of 'surfing' was introduced to describe browsing/navigation/information seeking on the web?
I never thought that the concept was particularly fit but I would like to know its genealogy in the context of the web/hypertext).
Thanks, Rune
________________________________________________ Rune Dalgaard | MA, Ph.D. Candidate | Information and Media Studies | Aarhus University | Denmark runed@imv.au.dk | http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed
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