Meanings
alternative post-internet · alternative post-Internet
- attributiveoftenuncountableSociety and modes of interaction following the widespread adoption of the internet, especially in arts and criticism.
The term that’s being used is Post-Internet Art — not “post” in the sense that the internet is over, but that it’s ubiquitous. In the post-internet era, the internet is simply assumed.
2016 October 21, Frank Rose, “The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
From post- + internet. As specific term to describe artistic activity from mid-2000s, later popularized by Gene McHugh in a blog and book of the same name.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
postinternet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postinternet
“postinternet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postinternet. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postinternet,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postinternet.
Source: postinternet on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.