- Internaut
Internaut is a common term for a designer, operator, or technically capable professional user of the
Internet . Beginning with participants in theInternet Engineering Task Force (IETF), it gradually expanded to members of theInternet Society (ISoc) and the larger community.Origin
The successor term to
ARPAnaut that was associated with theARPAnet .Aportmanteau of "Internet" and "Argonaut", similar toAstronaut .The term was promulgated by
Vint Cerf , used in conference program notes "INET'93", International Networking Conference of the Internet Society (1993) http://www.w3.org/Conferences/INET93/Program.html] , specialist publications "Paint the Right Picture", Internet Curmudgeon, Internet World, November/December 1994; also "The Internet Curmudgeon: "Representing the Internet", Daniel P. Dern http://www.dern.com/iw_repre.shtml] "Comprehensive Networking Glossary and Acronym Guide", Gary Scott Malkin (1995)] , and the IETF Request For Comment (RFC) series "I REMEMBER IANA", V. Cerf (October 1998) RFC 2468] .It has since come to wider usage in popular media. "Net activists in online protests", BBC (December 15, 1998) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/234748.stm]Notes
See also
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Internet
*Cyberspace
*Netizen
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