arachnerd

English

Etymology

Blend of arachnid +‎ nerd, as a play on web and Web. Included on lists of Internet slang as early as 1996.[1][2]

Noun

arachnerd (plural arachnerds)

  1. (Internet, slang) A person who spends a lot of time on the World Wide Web.
    • 2003, Chris Sherman, "To Google, and Other Internet Neologisms", Search Engine Watch, 8 June 2003:
      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.

References
  1. Jon Casimir, "dWeEB", Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March 1996
  2. Paul McFedries, Microsoft Office 97 Unleashed, Sams Publishing (1996), →ISBN, page 853
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