Etymology

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Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2006 in his webcomic xkcd as a spoof of Internet jargon. Equivalent to inter- + blag (“blog”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.