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interweb

noun
/ˈɪntəˌwɛb/

Etymology

Blend of Internet + web (“World Wide Web”). The first use of this phrase is disputed.

  1. derived from *webʰ-✻ — “to braid, weave”
  2. inherited from *webaną✻ — “to weave”
  3. inherited from *wabją✻ — “web”
  4. inherited from *wabi✻
  5. inherited from webb
  6. inherited from web
  7. compounded as interweb — “Internet + web”

Definitions

  1. The Internet.

    • "Web Hopper" is an interweb site that enables you to visualize your Web hopping and that of other Net users.
    • They said I was a fucking psycho / But look at me now, all up in the interweb, world wide

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for interweb. 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