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Home / Timeline Items / Jean Armour Polly Coins the Term “Surfing the Internet”
6 January 2021

Jean Armour Polly Coins the Term “Surfing the Internet”

New York librarian Jean Armour Polly writes and publishes one of the first free, nontechnical public guides to the Internet, Surfing the Internet, a term Polly is also credited with coining. 

New York librarian Jean Armour Polly writes and publishes one of the first free, nontechnical public guides to the Internet, Surfing the Internet, a term Polly is also credited with coining. 

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