(n) An urban legend.
Generally speaking, a story that is circulated extensively through either word-of mouth or (more recently) the internet, with little or no basis in fact.
Snopes.com is an excellent resource for such tales.
(Orig: Contraction of 'urban legend')
Generally speaking, a story that is circulated extensively through either word-of mouth or (more recently) the internet, with little or no basis in fact.
Snopes.com is an excellent resource for such tales.
(Orig: Contraction of 'urban legend')
Many such stories circulated on the internet, no matter how amusing, are generally either pure urblej or hoax.
by stuart@edesign.cc January 22, 2005
(v) Short form of 'screen scrape': To employ a variety of methods to steal content from a web site and represent it in another manner.
Generally seen as bad practice, but in widespread use. A bot can be used for such activity.
(from 'screen scrape', a technique used in the early days of terminal computing to read directly from terminal video memory)
Generally seen as bad practice, but in widespread use. A bot can be used for such activity.
(from 'screen scrape', a technique used in the early days of terminal computing to read directly from terminal video memory)
by stuart@edesign.cc January 22, 2005