Hackerspeak

Now we're on the web along with Cub Scouts, cheerleaders, postal workers, a gajillion other science fiction fans, and Al Gore. That must mean we're cutting edge, right? Maybe even bleeding edge. You know, some netizens claim that everything here is so new that we need to coin an entire vocabulary to describe it. In fact, they've already begun without us.

Fun with your new metaphor

Nobody asked us, but maybe we science fiction types should’ve volunteered to dream up the jargon people use to talk about the net. Surfing doesn’t really cut it. It speaks to the fun you can have on-line, but surfing is a difficult skill to master. You think any dweeb with a computer and a modem can head to Laguna, get like totally covered in some gnarly bowl then grab the rail and lay back for the exit? No way, dude.