Digerati

Posted on Jan 5 by ack.
Categories: online, tech.

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A lovely word of the day that I don’t recall seeing too much during the dotcom heyday, but see it daily now it seems.

From wiki:

The digerati are the elite of the computer industry and online communities. The word is a portmanteau, derived from “digital” and “literati,” and reminiscent of the earlier coinage glitterati (glitter + literati). Famous computer scientists, tech magazine writers and well-known bloggers are included among the digerati.

The term itself was coined in 1992 by the New York Times. Besides on the wiki, there is a listing of the Digerati. Or maybe it’s popular because it was the Word of the Day for Tuesday December 20, 2005