surf v.
[from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To
traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp.
if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also
common to speak of `surfing in' to a particular resource.
Hackers adopted this term early, but many have stopped using
it since it went completely mainstream around 1995. The passive,
couch-potato connotations that go with TV channel surfing were
never pleasant, and hearing non-hackers wax enthusiastic about
"surfing the net" tends to make hackers feel a bit as though
their home is being overrun by ignorami.