channel hopping

2 definitions found

channel hopping - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

channel hopping - 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.