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  • proper noun Internet, informal, humorous The World Wide Web, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.

Etymologies

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lazy +‎ Web

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Examples

  • We also read about the etymology of a seemingly endless list of video game characters, saw the fanciest new LED-lit Metroid figurine, and saw LittleBigPlanet go Druidistic, and had a lazyweb bullseye as we asked (and received!) a translation for this ultra-dryly funny and massively adorable Japanese 8-bit meme crossover.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I hope someone will create (warning: lazyweb request) a nice replacement icon that families well with Apple's Mac icons minus the negativity.

    Smug Ugly - Anil Dash 2007

  • Hey @lazyweb, how can I easily copy an unformatted address no hCard, etc, just text from a web page into the #osx addressbook?

    Lifestream Digest for July 30th 2009

  • Mathias is looking for someone to design the cover for his PhD thesis on tech and democracy, so he's asking the lazyweb to make him one -- lovely bit of recursion there.

    Boing Boing: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • I've been sloooowly compiling an OPML directory of Boards. ie forum feeds but Damien Mulley indicates how a lazyweb-ish approach might lessen the load.

    Request for John Breslin of Boards.ie 2006

  • Hoosgot, réincarnation du lazyweb d'antan, est en ligne.

    2007 December — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • If you had a request or a question, you would blog about it, send a trackback and a small prayer to the lazyweb, and maybe the lazyweb would answer with a solution.

    Hoosgot: The Lazyweb is Back! — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • Hoosgot, réincarnation du lazyweb d'antan, est en ligne.

    Hoosgot: The Lazyweb is Back! — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • Yesterday, Dave Sifry announced the birth of hoosgot, reincarnation of the lazyweb.

    2007 December — Climb to the Stars 2007

  • If you had a request or a question, you would blog about it, send a trackback and a small prayer to the lazyweb, and maybe the lazyweb would answer with a solution.

    2007 December — Climb to the Stars 2007

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