arachnerd

noun
/əˈɹækˌnɜːd/UK/əˈɹækˌnɝːd/US

Etymology

Blend of arachnid + nerd, as a play on web and Web. Included on lists of Internet slang as early as 1996.

Definitions

  1. A person who spends a lot of time on the World Wide Web.

    • Why do I find these Internet neologisms so interesting? Guess it’s because I’m a bona-fide arachnerd, a person that spends way too much time either surfing the Web or fussing with their home page.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for arachnerd. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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