WEBMONKEY


Meaning of WEBMONKEY in English

< World-Wide Web > a largely unskilled Web worker - one with a passable understanding of HTML but little else.

It is often supposed that, in the New Media food chain, there is nothing lower than a webmonkey. Alas, there is: people who barely have the skills to use FrontPage; these people are called "typists".

The B1FF of webmonkeys is personified as Bobo the Webmonkey .

Compare actor/singer/waiter/webmaster .

And compare sysape , one-banana problem , scratch monkey , monkey up , and Infinite-Monkey Theorem for other simian allusions.

(1998-04-04)

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