Nethead

See also: nethead

English

Noun

Nethead (plural Netheads)

1. Alternative letter-case form of nethead.
   • 1994 September 20, David Plotnikoff, “The fall invasion of neophytes plagues Usenet veterans”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 111, number 58, page 4D:

     To see why Al “My Way Is the Highway” Gore and 50,000 other Netheads from across the country have dialed into Monta Vista this year, point your web-browser to http:

   • 2000, Christopher West, The Third Messiah, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Minotaur, →ISBN, pages 84–85:

     “So we’re going to an Internet café …” said Rosina, as the two nurses stood in the queue for the 105 bus. “That’s right. We go and use the computers, and we can eat and drink while you’re doing it. And meet other Netheads, too, if we want to.” “Netheads?” “Freaks. People like us.”

   • 2001, Wendy M. Grossman, “The Internet Gets the Bomb”, in From Anarchy to Power: The Net Comes of Age, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 13:

     In the early 1990s, Netheads liked to speculate that the reason the media only ran sensationalist scare stories about the online world was that newspaper and magazine editors, publishers, and writers knew their livelihoods were under threat.