Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
coder | one who writes code. |
computerist | a person who uses or operates a computer. |
cyberathlete | a professional player of computer games. |
cyberbully | one who bullies via the medium of the Internet. |
cybernaut | a person using the Internet. |
cybersquatter | one who engages in cybersquatting. |
cyberstalker | one who uses electronic communications to harass someone persistently. |
cybrarian | a person in charge of computer archives. |
defriend | to remove someone from one's list of friends on a social networking site. |
ebayer | (Tradename) one who sells on eBay. |
emailer | one who sends electronic messages via computer. |
facetime | to communicate with (a person) using the FaceTime application. |
griefer | an online games player who intentionally spoils the game for other players. |
hacker | one that hacks. |
hackerazzi | a person who hacks into the personal computer of a celebrity in order to gain information about them. |
hacktivist | someone who hacks into computer systems as a form of protest. |
liveware | (Coll.) all the people working on a computer system. |
luser | a user of a computer system as perceived by a technical support group. |
modder | one who modifies a machine or piece of software. |
nerd | a person obsessed with computers at the expense of human interaction. |
netizen | a member of a computer network. |
netroot | a political activist who promotes his or her cause via the internet. |
netsurfer | one who engages in the activity of looking at many different websites on the internet. |
nettie | a habitual and enthusiastic user of the internet. |
newsgroup | a group on the Internet who subscribe to receive mail on a particular topic. |
noob | an Internet novice. |
onliner | a person who uses the Internet regularly. |
pharmer | one who participates in pharming. |
phisher | one that phishes. |
poddie | a user of an iPod. |
programer | (US) one who writes programs. |
programmer | one who writes programs. |
pumpking | a person involved in a web-based project who has temporary but exclusive authority to make changes to the master source code. |
spimmer | a person who sends unsolicited commercial communications via an instant-messaging system. |
superuser | in computing, a special facility used by a systems administrator, giving unrestricted access to the system. |
sysadmin | a computer systems administrator. |
sysop | (Short for) systems operator. |
texter | one who texts, sends text messages. |
tweep | one who uses Twitter. |
tweeple | people who communicate via the Twitter website. |
twitterati | influential commentators who use the Twitter website. |
unfollow | to decline to receive messages from (a person who is posting on a social media site). |
upgrader | one who upgrades. |
warchalker | one who engages in warchalking, the activity of drawing chalk symbols in public places in order to indicate the location of wireless Internet access points. |
webcaster | one who broadcasts over the Internet. |
webhead | a devoted user of the Internet. |
webmaster | a person responsible for the maintenance of a website. |
wetware | the living human brain, viewed as part of a computer system. |
workgroup | a group of computer users linked by a network. |