cybertrash

English

Etymology

From cyber- +‎ trash.

Noun

cybertrash (uncountable)

1. trash on the Internet or in cyberspace
   • 1998, Bret Lott, The Hunt Club:

     Even Miss Dorcas here possesses information quite detrimental to my endeavors, and though you, Leland Dillard, are responsible for her sifting through cybertrash, that responsibility isn't enough […]

   • 2003, David L. Baumer, Julius Carl Poindexter, Legal environment of business in the information age:

     Cybertrash in the form of SPAM^[sic] (unsolicited email advertisements), fraudulent get-rich-quick schemes, pornography, and other Internet "pollution" continues to trouble legislators.

   • 2011, Jay Conrad Levinson, Michael W. McLaughlin, Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants:

     A zine can't help your practice if it ends up in the cybertrash unopened.