Talk:Glossary of Internet-related terms

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Transwiki to Wiktionary

Alot of this should be moved to wiktionary I believe... (Erebus555 09:33, 16 July 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Agreed. Also, in considering transfering this content to Wiktionary, I suggest using this link for internet terminology: [1]. -- backburner001 15:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded; this doesn't belong on Wikipedia. 70.64.123.219 (talk) 06:11, 16 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

third.Panpog1 (talk) 20:12, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Copypasta

Although copypasta is mentioned in Urban Dictionary and similar less-reliable sources, I can find no reliable third-party sources that mention the term. (There appeared to be some on Google Books, but those all turn out to be OCR errors for Copy ・ Paste.) The term may need to be removed. This in turn will require RfD for the page Copypasta. Cnilep (talk) 15:09, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

requesting cleanup

Adding a quality request, even if this page is a glossary, it's still awful (spelling, tone and sourcing). Arguably you could add citation needed on every item.wren337 (talk) 17:57, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

alphabetical links don't work

The A-Z links to move down to those sections in the text do not work.128.100.71.45 (talk) 14:54, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose that Me too be merged into this article. The only information at that article (after I pulled out all of the unsourced information) is an explanation of how the phrase was used, along with sources designed to guide new users (in 1994-2000) about how to use or not use the phrase. As such, that article does not have enough information to be an independent article (per WP:NEOLOGISM), and should be deleted. As such, I propose that we merge in that information here as a new entry on this glossary and redirect that article to here. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I forgot about this. Given that there's been no comments in the past nearly 5 months, I'm going to go ahead with the merger. Qwyrxian (talk) 06:42, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Win fail

The definitions of win and fail fail. Surely the Jargon File has something better. And should mention epic fail and of course epoch failRich Farmbrough, 14:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC).[reply]

What is this page for?

Is it a list of technical Internet-related terms like hypertext, DNS, registrar, etc.? Should it include neologisms that have something to do with the Internet but aren't related to its infrastructure? e.g. "mouse potato" stuck out (also, that's not even mentioned in the article it links to). Should it include slang like 1337, ROFL, etc.? Coming to this page from the AfD for away from keyboard, which seemed like it would be at home as a little line in some list of acronyms or Internet terms.

I do know that list of Internet slang (which now redirects to internet slang) was more or less moved off to wiktionary:Appendix:English internet slang. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:07, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think it could be usefully expanded to include notable slang terms. It's obviously difficult, probably sometimes impossible, to identify the point at which something ceases to be slang and becomes an accepted term (e.g. "spam" and "blog" were slang at some point I suppose), so trying to exclude all slang terms/neologisms would probably be impossible. On the other hand, it could easily become unwieldy. Note also that List of Internet phenomena also exists, and, though there's a distinction between Internet phenomena and the sort of terms one would include in a glossary, it's similarly difficult to draw.

There's also a separate problem of outdatedness: no doubt a glossary defining terms like "blogging" and "Googling" was useful in 2003, when they were relatively new and unfamiliar, but in 2019 the utility of entries like this is less obvious. Presumably for something to be worthy of listing in a glossary it ought to be at least somewhat obscure, and for a glossary to be worthwhile there should be a certain number of obscure terms with which to populate it. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:14, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and in addition to the list of Internet phenomena there's an Index of Internet-related articles and an Outline of the Internet. Some kind of merge might be appropriate. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:55, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Win and fail

Cogsan, I never said that win and fail were zoomer or alpha terms, I just said that if we included all terms that originated from internet, this page would turn into Urban Dictionary. "Win" and "fail" are not Internet-related. (ex IP user) IvicaInsomniac (talk) 20:16, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

if you want to be technical, neither are the game, lag, lurk, and troll

win and fail have pretty concrete definitions in the context of the internet, so i think they get to stay here cogsan _{(give me attention) (see my deeds)} 21:22, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, trolling happens IRL, but how do you figure lagging and lurking? IvicaInsomniac (talk) 22:14, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ungrammatical

This glossary is ungrammatical by capitalizing every term including ones that aren't proper nouns. Look at dictionaries and most higher academic glossaries on Wikipedia and you'll see they only capitalize names/titles such as people and named places. This whole thing needs reformatting for grammar.--dchmelik☀️🦉🐝🐍(talk|contrib) 01:32, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]