[Air-l] surfing - when and who coined the term

[Steve Jones]

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:
>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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