Internet culture

30 Second Bunny Theater is a Flash cartoon series produced by Angry Alien Productions and featuring films re-enacted by bunnies in thirty seconds. ...more on Wikipedia about "30 Second Bunny Theater"

Active Worlds (AW) is a 3D web browser for Microsoft Windows. It allows users to assign themselves a unique name, log into the Active Worlds universe and explore worlds and places that other people have built. ...more on Wikipedia about "Active Worlds"

Africa Online was started in 1994 by three Kenyan students at MIT. It developed from an online community hosted at MIT called KenyaNet. KenyaNet was one of several Africa-focused online communities (the others were Okyeame ( Ghana), Naijanet ( Nigeria), and Salonet ( Sierra Leone) formed and run by MIT students and hosted on MIT servers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Africa Online"

alt.fan.warlord is a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to the dissection and flaming of signature files (sigs) used in other Usenet groups. The newsgroup was best-known during the early and mid- 1990s, but can no longer be considered active. In its time, it was a notable "underground" Internet phenomenon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alt.fan.warlord"

AOL disk collecting is the collecting of CD-ROMs and diskettes distributed by the America Online company, containing computer software for accessing the America Online service. These CD-ROMs and diskettes are somewhat infamous for their excessive distribution. While disliked by many Americans who received them en masse during the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL disks also provide an entertaining hobby for a few. The collector need not harbor any positive feelings toward the AOL Time Warner corporation, nor even be an AOL subscriber, although some of the larger collections are held by former and current AOL employees. ...more on Wikipedia about "AOL disk collecting"

Attention whore is an insulting term used in reference to a person who is trying to draw attention to themselves or who finds attention from others gratifying. The insult turns on the idea that the person to whom it is directed is comparable in their actions to a prostitute: a prostitute gives himself or herself sexually to anyone willing to pay, and in the same way an attention whore makes a fool of himself or herself for anyone willing to pay attention. ...more on Wikipedia about "Attention whore"

Among people working on virtual reality and cyberspace interfaces, an avatar (sometimes AV or av) is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality. The term is sometimes used on MUDs, in computer role-playing games, and shared non-gaming universes such as Active Worlds, There, Second Life, and The Palace. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avatar (virtual reality)"

B1FF or BIFF was the most famous pseudonym and the prototypical newbie on Usenet. ...more on Wikipedia about "B1FF"

Bash.org is a web site that hosts a popular database of quotes. While the site's official name is QDB, or Quote Database, it is usually referred to by its URL, or simply as "bash". The site collects, stores and presents humorous quotes garnered almost exclusively from Internet Relay Chat, although some entries from instant messaging and spoken quotations also appear in the database. After being submitted, these entries can be voted on and displayed according to different sorting methods. The word "bashing" is now sometimes used to mean adding quotes to the site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bash.org"

A blammer is one who posts unwanted comments to a blog, a "blog spammer". Blog spam is sometimes referred to as "comment spam". ...more on Wikipedia about "Blammer"

A blog is a website in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". A blog comprises hypertext, images, and links (to other webpages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular "area of interest", such as Washington, D.C.'s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blog"

The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on lusers (his colleagues, bosses and anyone who gets in his way). ...more on Wikipedia about "BOFH"

The Brazilian Internet Phenomenon is a term to describe the massive adoption by Brazilians of an Internet service exceeding the number of members of the original nationality of the service. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brazilian Internet Phenomenon"

Bruno Giussani (born 1964 in Faido, Switzerland) is a Swiss writer and the author of Roam: Making Sense of the Wireless Internet (Random House 2001 & 2002) and other books. He was a 2004 Knight Fellow at Stanford University and the Producer of the TEDGLOBAL 2005 conference in Oxford, UK (the first TED conference taking place in Europe). ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruno Giussani" This article is made for shortopedia

A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. During their heyday (from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s), many BBSes were run as a hobby free of charge by the " SysOp" (system operator), while other BBSes charged their users a subscription fee for access. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bulletin board system"

To bump a thread on an internet forum is to post a reply in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. This is also called thread necromancy, or gravedigging, as old threads are said to be dying or dead. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bump (internet)"

Cam whore is a term for males or females who expose themselves on the Internet with webcam software in exchange for goods, usually via enticing viewers to purchase items on their Amazon.com wishlists, or with PayPal transfers. The viewers are generally middle aged men. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cam whore"

Catblogging (traditionally "Friday catblogging") is the practice of posting pictures of cats, in typical cat postures and expressions, on a blog. Sometimes a comment on the cat or the situation shown is provided. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catblogging"

A chatkill is a term mostly used in online chatrooms to describe an indeterminate length of awkward silence. Usually preceded by a chatroom user writing something out of topic and/or context which causes the flow of all conversations to halt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chatkill"

This page is about the development of animation and comic industry in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chinese Animation"

Crystal Palace, also known as CP or Palace is perhaps one of the most popular telnet-based talker in the short history of talkers. Crystal Palace is geared for adult audiences interested in roleplaying bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism with other consenting adults. It is currently headed by Virus and has existed since 1996. It still exists today and has a thriving user base, having surived an onslaught of controversy, other chats, and the advent of instant messengers. It is located at [telnet://talker.com:9900] ...more on Wikipedia about "Crystal Palace (chat site)"

CULT OF THE DEAD COW, also known as cDc, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas. The group maintains a weblog on its site , also titled "CULT OF THE DEAD COW." New media are released first through the blog, which also features thoughts and opinions of the group's members. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cult of the Dead Cow"

Cyberchondria is a colloquial term for hypochondria in individuals who have researched medical conditions on the internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyberchondria"

Cyberia is a book by Douglas Rushkoff, published in 1994. It discusses online culture and the concept of a global brain as put forth in Gaia theory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyberia (book)"

Cybermancy refers to the act of using computer-driven divination systems. These systems may be based upon oracles originally created in non-electric media ( i.e., Tarot, Runes, or I Ching ) or may exist solely as software constructs. These are usually divination programs, but may include reference materials, such as programs which track the phase of the moon, which practitioners of ritual magic need for timing their spells. It's nothing new to use computers to create astrology charts, either. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cybermancy" If you like you could tell us your opinion about shortopedia shortopedia

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