channel hopping

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

channel hopping
 n.

   [common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly switch channels on {IRC}, or a GEnie
   chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to
   another at a party. This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom,
   channel surfing.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

channel hopping

   <chat> To rapidly switch channels on {IRC}, or a {GEnie} chat
   board.  This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel
   surfing".

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1994-11-29)

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