Internaut
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Internaut is a common term for a designer, operator, or technically capable professional user of the Internet. Beginning with participants in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), it gradually expanded to members of the Internet Society (ISoc) and the larger community.
[edit] Origin
The successor term to ARPAnaut that was associated with the ARPAnet. A portmanteau of Internet and Argonaut, similar to Astronaut.
The term was promulgated by Vint Cerf, used in conference program notes[1], specialist publications[2][3], and the IETF Request For Comment (RFC) series[4]. It has since come to wider usage in popular media.[5]
[edit] Notes
- ^ INET'93, International Networking Conference of the Internet Society (1993) http://www.w3.org/Conferences/INET93/Program.html
- ^ 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)
- ^ I REMEMBER IANA, V. Cerf (October 1998) RFC 2468
- ^ Net activists in online protests, BBC (December 15, 1998) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/234748.stm
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