How many words came from the internet ?

[hannamyluv]

I just read an article and how Amazon will be testing Plogging. Which is a derivative of Blogging. Which lead me to think, how many words have been made up to describe something on the internet?

Blogging
Email
Ecommerce
Plogging

I know there's more but it's Friday and my brain is toast. What other ones can you think of?

[claus]

Burn rate

...never forget the burn rate. The most undervalued offspring of the dot-com era, which is also why it turned out the way it did ;)

[TheDoctor]

Umm, E-mail goes WAY before the internet. I remember sending e-mails in the fidonet days, back in the 80s

Err, pardon me, but the internet was well up and running before the 80s.

I also remember acoustic couplers. I also remember an office "portable computer" with a built-in acoustic coupler. I wouldn't describe it as a "laptop", since I'm not sure even Goliath had a lap that big.

Claus mentions "dot-com" without citing it as a word we've got from the internet. Did anyone else mention this? I can't seem to find it.

[victor]

Many words predate their current usage, including the one that started this thread, blogging:

[groups.google.com...]

[robotsdobetter]

I have no idea if any these were out before the internet, but what the hell.

Directory
Intranet
E-zines
pop-up

[Teknorat]

Lol- Directory was definetly not invented by the internet.

1337
W00T!
Lol
LMAO etc...

(Anyone whos says these aren't words is a fool I tell you!)

[jweighell]

Not to forget old words that have been given new meanings... 'spider' etc...

[grelmar]

Err, pardon me, but the internet was well up and running before the 80s.

Ok, but it was called Arpanet back then, if I'm not mistaken....

Ok, semantics, I know, but when I think of "Internet" I'm thinking of the growing network of the very late 80s onwards.

Mind, I get my timelines all befuddled when it comes to the Darpanet/Arpanet/Internet name changes.

[TheDoctor]

Darpanet/Arpanet/Internet name changes

DARPA and ARPA refer to the same organisation: (Defense) Advanced Projects Agency. It was set up by the Eisenhower administration as a response to the launch of Sputnik I. In 1961 it took on the task of developing a method of linking computers together.

ARPANET was the original backbone of the Internet, not the Internet itself. The Internet is, in fact, a network of networks (hence the "inter" bit of the name), and was developed in the early to middle 70s following the successful creation of DARPANET.

Of course, during the days when DARPA was sponsoring all the basic work, the English and other languages were adopting words and phrases from the space programme, not from IT. (Quick return to topic there).