{"id":3,"date":"2004-09-26T12:37:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/26\/gonzo-websurfing\/"},"modified":"2004-09-26T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T16:37:16","slug":"gonzo-websurfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/09\/26\/gonzo-websurfing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonzo Websurfing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a41'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><FONT size=\"2\"><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\">Gonzo websurfing is when you find a wifi network that someone has set up, and use it to surf the web without even knowing whose network it is.&nbsp; Like right now, for example!&nbsp; &#8220;ArNoLd,&#8221; who ever you are, thank you.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\">I have never heard the term &#8220;gonzo&#8221; used in this way before, but I was inspired by <A href=\"http:\/\/www.gonzo.org\/hst\/ht\/thompson.html#target_what_here\">its use to describe Hunter S. Thompson&#8217;s style of underground journalism<\/A>.&nbsp; <BR><BR>UPDATE:&nbsp; Upon reflection, I think &#8220;guerilla internet&#8221; or &#8220;guerilla surfing&#8221; is more accurate.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t like the war connotation, but &#8220;gonzo&#8221; connotes being rushed or unedited, which has little or nothing to do with using a random wifi network. <BR><BR>UPDATE 2:&nbsp; Jill notes that there is already another war-based metaphor in use for this practice:&nbsp; &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/w\/wardriving.html\">war driving<\/A>,&#8221; although <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_driving\">some say <\/A>that this only refers to finding and logging free wifi access points. <BR><BR><BR><BR><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonzo websurfing is when you find a wifi network that someone has set up, and use it to surf the web without even knowing whose network it is.&nbsp; Like right now, for example!&nbsp; &#8220;ArNoLd,&#8221; who ever you are, thank you.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have never heard the term &#8220;gonzo&#8221; used in this way before, but I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}