nethead
nounEtymology From net + -head.
1
Slang An obsessive Internet user.
- This is, after all, a gathering of a typical fraternity of netheads, those Internet-obsessed students who every night fill the large computer labs sprinkled throughout campus.1998, Kimberly S. Young, Caught in the net, page 175:
2
Slang A supporter of the Internet and its flexibility and technical underpinnings, contrasted with Bellhead (a supporter of traditional centralized telecommunications networks).