surf

   [from  the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse
   the  Internet  in  search  of  interesting stuff, used esp. if one is
   doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of
   surfing in to a particular resource.

   Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using it since
   it  went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive, couch-potato
   connotations that go with TV channel surfing were never pleasant, and
   hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about "surfing the net" tends to
   make  hackers  feel  a  bit  as though their home is being overrun by
   ignorami.

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