Surfing 網上沖浪
Surfing 網上沖浪
I want to ask about the use of the word online in daily conversation. For example, how do I differentiate between online and surfing?
From Yan Ding, Beijing
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This week's question is about using computing terms in everyday conversation. Going online is a modern saying that people use to mean using the computer to connect with the internet or the worldwide web. We can now go shopping online to buy all kinds of things such as food, cinema tickets or holidays.
But sometimes we like to shop around and look at a variety of websites. That's when we use the verb, to surf. We go surfing when we spend time online exploring the internet.
Surfing the web can be a time waster!
We can say we are surfing the net but what is the net?
Find out in this week's Question and Answer of the Week with Rob and Fei Fei.
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