aside from
<fontfamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger><bigger>Jean Armour
Polly's claims, below,

I have always associated the term with "mis-use" as I was under the
understanding that folks had used the term "cerfing" in relation to
Vinton Cerf's work (at CNRI) in the mid-80's on "wandering agents"
(knowbots and spiders).


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On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 08:57  AM, Steve Jones wrote:


<excerpt>I recall a program on the History Channel (U.S. cable TV)
from about 2001 that claimed "surfing the Internet" had been coined in
1992 by someone at the Library of Congress.


If you go to http://www.netmom.com/about/origin.shtml you'll find some
more information sources about the origins of the phrase.


Sj



At 3:28 PM +0200 5/12/03, Rune Dalgaard wrote:

<excerpt>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


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Information and Media Studies  |  Aarhus University  |  Denmark

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