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Egosurf Vi. To Search The Net For Your Name Or Links To Your Web Pages.
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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.
Related:
Jim. Your name...is Jim. -- Spock to Kirk, "ST III: The Search for Spock," stardate 8210.3
home page n. 1. One's personal billboard on the World Wide Web.
The term `home page' is perhaps a bit misleading because home directories and physical homes in RL are private, but home pages are designed to be very public....
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...
The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.
well-connected adj. Said of a computer installation, asserts that it has reliable email links with the network and/or that it relays a large fraction of available Usenet newsgroups.
`Well-known' can be almost synonymous, but also implies that the site's name is familiar to many (due perhaps to an archive service or active Usenet users)....
well-connected: adj. Said of a computer installation, asserts that it has reliable email links with the network and/or that it relays a large fraction of available {USENET} newsgroups.
`Well-known' can be almost synonymous, but also implies that the site's name is familiar to many (due perhaps to an archive service or active USENET users)....
con n. [from SF fandom] A science-fiction convention.
Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
Support your local search and rescue center -- GET LOST!
Support your local Search and Rescue unit -- get lost.