netlore

A kind of folklore comprising humorous texts, folk poetry, folk art, and urban legends that are circulated over the Internet.

Noun

  1. A kind of folklore comprising humorous texts, folk poetry, folk art, and urban legends that are circulated over the Internet.
    • Photographic urban legends, digitally altered photographs, circulate among friends via e-mail and turn up on netlore sites, just as jokes and contemporary legends do, as well as on websites run by pranksters and...

Origin

From net + lore.

Related

faxlore