# Do People Still Say 'Surf the 'Net' ?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say-surf-the-net/781315 "2017-03-03T17:33:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say-surf-the-net/781315/41 "2017-03-05T21:25:45Z")

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You mean it’s not “internets,” with an S?😕

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say-surf-the-net/781315/42 "2017-03-05T21:27:02Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> These days, I _do_ hear people talking about “Surfing Wikipedia”, so maybe the term has migrated to hyperlinked websites.

Agreed.

I call that going on a wikigrination. 🙂

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**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say-surf-the-net/781315/43 "2017-03-06T08:34:27Z")

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_Trawling the interwebs_

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-people-still-say-surf-the-net/781315/44 "2017-03-07T05:34:17Z")

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It’s pronounced “teh interwebs”.

I’ll often get a chuckle from my (college) students when I say that. Even “The World Wide Web” works… especially because our department advisor tells students that in order to register they need to: “first, you’re going to get out on the World Wide Web…” (even though I’ve pointed out that the students are going to connect to a server down the hall, so it’s not “out” at all…)

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