Exploring the World Wide Web. Commonly seen as "Surfing the Net."
Felipe Pomar, 2nd World Surfing Championship, Peru 1965, Sofia Mulanovich, Women’s World Surf Champion in 2004 and 2005. exploring the World Wide Web. This is the term used to describe moving around the Web. Viewing web pages on the Internet. the process of moving from one Web site to another using addresses supplied by search engines or links on sites that are visited Exploring the Internet by key words and/or links, to see what can be found of interest ( on a moving river)- A method of riding a wave or a hole in which a boat is made to stay in one place by careful placement on the river feature in question. To surf the Internet is to explore cyberspace without a predefined agenda. By cyberspace, we generally mean the World Wide Web. Prior to 1997, many people surfed gopherspace and some also surfed "FTP-space. ... Moving from web page to web page or moving between web pages. using a browser to visit sites on the Internet. River surfing is riding on an upstream face of a standing wave. Ocean surfing is riding on a face of a wave, out from the shore towards the beach. The act of "riding" a wave front, either on the ocean or in whitewater rapids. A term used to describe the act of searching the Internet for information. (gerund) "To surf" the Web is to browse around, with or (usually) without a clear objective. "Surfing" the Web suggests a shallow information-foraging behavior or a recreational experience. (Definition from Distance Learning Resource Network.) the act of using or searching the internet A slang term for serendipitous Web browsing-cruising from site to site and document to document in order to find items that are valuable and/or interesting to the user A term used for exploring the Internet, as in "surfing the net". Most often used in reference to accessing sites on the World Wide Web. A river maneuver in which the boat gets on the upstream face of a wave and stays there, held by gravity on the upstream face and the current going under the boat. On really big water, even rafts surf. the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried by a breaking wave usually on a surfboard to the shore. As well as surfboards surfers make use of kneeboards, body boards, kayaks, surf skis and their own bodies. ...
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