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cybercrud

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + crud; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in Computer Lib (1974).

  1. derived from crūdan — “to press”
  2. inherited from crud
  3. prefixed as cybercrud — “cyber + crud”

Definitions

  1. Computer jargon that serves to obscure and confuse.

    • If the signature is formatted innocuously, it just looks like cybercrud in the mail header to non-crypto-capable recipients.

  2. Any worthless material supplied by or relating to computers.

    • The headaches of junk mail fiber-crud pale beside the anxieties triggered by vivid multimedia cybercrud, served up on optical disks and communication links.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA