From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
surfing
n : the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the
crest of a wave [syn: surfboarding, surfriding]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
surfing
("Internet surfing") Used by analogy to describe the ease with
which an expert user can use the waves of information flowing
around the Internet to get where he wants. The term became
popular in the early 1990s as access to the Internet became
more widespread and tools such as World-Wide Web browsers
made its use simpler and more pleasant.
(1995-01-05)