Nethead

nethead English Noun en nethead. en David Plotnikoff The fall invasion of neophytes plagues Usenet veterans St. Petersburg Times 111 58 20 September 1994 4D https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/324842833/ 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: en Christopher West The Third Messiah New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Minotaur 2000 84–85 https://archive.org/details/thirdmessiah00west/page/84/mode/1up 0-312-26665-0 “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.” en w:Wendy M. Grossman The Internet Gets the Bomb From Anarchy to Power: The Net Comes of Age New York, N.Y.; London w:New York University Press 2001 13 https://archive.org/details/fromanarchytopow00gros_0/page/13/mode/1up 0-8147-3141-4 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.