splinternet
English
Etymology
Blend of splinter + internet
Noun
splinternet (countable and uncountable, plural splinternets)
- A fragmented internet, or one of its separate parts.
- 2012, Rachel Pasqua, Noah Elkin, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day
- Wise words from one of advertising's elder statesmen, who has seen the industry evolve from TV, radio, and print to today's splinternet.
- 2012, Wayne D. Bowman, Ana Lucía Frega, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education (page 468)
- Increasingly, writers refer to internets or splinternets as ways to describe an increasingly fragmented web in which power brokers create limited access to the Web and the curricular informality of connectivity is challenged by formality.
- 2012, Rachel Pasqua, Noah Elkin, Mobile Marketing: An Hour a Day
See also
- cyberbalkanization