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• link rot n. The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die.
  Compare bit rot....
• dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach.
  Usually this happens because the document has been moved or deleted....
• browser n. A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database.
  While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage....
• gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
  Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of link...
• egosurf vi. To search the net for your name or links to your web pages.
  Perhaps connected to long-established SF-fan slang `egoscan', to search for one's name in a fanzine....
• And one ring to moderat... err... rule them all.
• hread: n. [USENET, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
  To `follow a thread' is to read a series of USENET postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers....
• We have two hands. What's wrong with having one of them on the mouse?
  -- Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex expert, in defense of on-line sex, -- in Web magazine...
• Multics /muhl'tiks/ n. [from "MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service"] An early time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including MIT
  GE, and Bell Laboratories as a successor to CTSS....