I'd be *amazed* if anyone could find THE person who coined the term. I'd be even more amazed if that person had a coherent definition at the time. I suppose you could trace it back to the first person to use it in print, maybe look at Google's NGram: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=troll&year_start=1980&year_end=2018&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctroll%3B%2Cc0
On 11/14/18 8:40 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Thanks, Glen. Oh, I see that it has come to mean many things. Meaning is > like that. But I was curious about its origin. Was the person who first > used the term thinking about the Billie Goats Gruff (WHO'S THAT TRAMPING OVER > MY BRIDGE!) [Yes, Owen, I am shouting.} or was he putting along, at 2 miles > an hour, half a sleep in the back of a boat on a quiet Vermont lake? -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
