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

[Ed Lamoureux]

aside from 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).


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

> 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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