He is not afraid to theorize the uncharted territory that is "the Internet," coining his own terms along the way ("digiphrenia," "fractalnoia," "apocalypto"), but it's a theory that establishes its originality by cutting ties to everything that has been said and thought before.
In part because Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black are two sides of the same Internet fame coin: Black is like the anti-Justin Bieber, her "Friday" video has all the trappings of pop star gloss, with none of the talent.
A climatic Potemkin facade of perfect blue skies – which soon became an internet meme, coining the term "Apec blue".
It has been the motto of the Internet age, coined by Nicholas Negroponte and popularized in his 1995 best seller, "Being Digital".
According to a D.J. in Brooklyn who goes by the Twitter handle Lil Internet, he coined the term "seapunk" last June after having a surreal dream, which he tweeted about: "Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be".
In his 2010 memoir "Possiplex," Mr. Nelson, who was an Internet pioneer and coined the term "hypertext," described this and other choices as "entirely the right decisions".
The word "Internet" was initially coined as an easy way to refer to the combination of these two networks, to their "internetworking".
"We're heading into a war for the control of the web and against the web as an interoperable platform," warns Tim O'Reilly, the internet guru who coined the term "web 2.0 .Mr O'Reilly is definitely on to something.
"They have good rates of return -- not as good as when we were riding the Internet bubble, but the coin market hasn't burst," said Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, a surgeon in Providence, R.I., who has played both markets.
