May 15, 2003

channel hopping

n.

[common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party. This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, channel surfing.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:54 AM

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