Term used by the
computer-illiterate to describe a hyperlink. The usual culprits are those who setup
internet messageboards without any IT knowledge and begin to use this other, meaningless word. Their most heinous crime is when they impose this new word and practically force everyone else to speak their illiterate language.
It's actual meaning is to directly
link to an image or object from another website, which isn't the same at all.
"
Don't post hotlinks here"
"No hotlinking"
or conversations such as:
A:"No hotlinking"
B:"What's a hotlink?"
A:"You linked to another page"
B:"You
mean Hyperlink?"
A:"No - hotlink"
B:"I posted a
link to another page - that's not a hotlink!"
A: "Erm...Umm... This is my website! You're Banned!!"