Meanings
plural alt.surfers
- InternetA participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.surfing.
Are you an alt.surfer by any chance? [just looking at your sig]
1997 August 24, Gadget PJT, “Talk, Talk, Talk”, in uk.community.firefighting (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Nov 20254 more examples
Hello to James Wilkes, over at Duke. There suddenly seem to be a fair number of alt.surfers in this part of the world.
1991 November 5, Thomas David Mills, “U.S. east coast surf”, in alt.surfing (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Nov 2025Speaking of meeting new friends, I met someone from alt.surfing at the beach yesterday. He was on vacation w/ his family & myself & a couple of my friends who also happen to be alt.surfers (members of the ng [newsgroup] for surfers) met this guy & his whole family for a surf.
1999 July 28, PONE1PESOS, “Thanks, Thanks & More Thanks!!!”, in alt.design.graphics (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Nov 2025One of the alt.surfers uses a popcorn popper. It works for him and it's quite economical.
2005 October 11, george of the jungle, “The ADHD Coffee tradeoff”, in alt.support.attn-deficit (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Nov 2025We can go hit the Austin location first... Old School Alt Surfers^([sic]) Party!
2022 October 28, Darin R. McClure, “Surf Lakes Pumped”, in alt.surfing (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Nov 2025
Origin
Blend of alt.surfing + surfer.
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