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arachnerd

arachnerd

English

Noun

arachnerd (plural arachnerds)

  1. (Internet, slang) A person who spends a lot of time on the World Wide Web.
    • 2003, Chris Sherman, "To Google, and Other Internet Neologisms", Search Engine Watch, 8 June 2003:
      Why do I find these Internet neologisms so interesting? Guess it's because I'm a bona-fide arachnerd, a person that spends way too much time either surfing the Web or fussing with their home page.

References

  1. Jon Casimir, "dWeEB", Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March 1996
  2. Paul McFedries, Microsoft Office 97 Unleashed, Sams Publishing (1996), ISBN 9780672310102, page 853