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surf v.
[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.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.