[Ads-l] Doxing/doxxing antedatings

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 29 16:18:45 UTC 2015


Great work, Hugo! I'll just note that "doxxing" in "I'm doxxing the
owner of NK" is not technically a verbal noun -- that's just the
present progressive/continuous form of the transitive verb.


On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Hugo wrote:
>
> To summarise, ATNW89-3 has:
>
> v.
> drop dox: 2008 Aug 24
> dox, v 2010 Mar 11
> doxx: 2013 Nov 4
> -
> Antedates:
> Garson dox: 2009 May 30
> Ben doxx: 2009 Sep 18
>
> vbl. n.
> dropping dox: 2010 Aug 16
> doxing: 2011 Mar 22
> doxxing: 2014 Jan 19
>
> n.
> doxer: 2011 Aug 23
> Doxer: 2013 Nov 17
> ---
>
> Here's some antedatings from Twitter:
>
> vbl. n.
> dropping dox: 2008 Aug 22
> doxing: 2009 Jun 12
> doxxing: 2009 Jan 12
>
> v.
> doxx: 2009 May 19
>
> n.
> doxer: 2010 Jun 14
> Doxer: 2010 May 29
>
> Also new ones:
>
> dox, n. The results of a doxing: 2009 Sep 18
> Doxxer, n: 2011 Jul 28
>
>
> Details, in chronological order:
>
> ---
>
> dropping dox, vbl. n.:
>
> [Begin]
> What? @billbilano harassing @jjx? wtf? Now contemplating dropping dox on
> the guy who's behind him.
> [End]
>
> 7:34 AM - 22 Aug 2008
> https://twitter.com/innismir/status/895169464
>
> ---
>
> doxxing, vbl. n.:
>
> [Begin]
> I'm doxxing the owner of NK.
> [End]
>
> 6 years ago
> http://twitter.com/Cryoma/status/1112496300
>
> Note: found with Topsy, but the tweet has since been deleted, along with
> their other six earliest.
> http://topsy.com/s?q=from%3Acryoma&window=a&type=tweet&sort=-date
>
> Their previous was "@mychilli is that their usernames too?"
> http://twitter.com/Cryoma/status/1112481629 which sounds related to the
> doxxing.
>
> Cryoma's current oldest tweet is
> https://twitter.com/Cryoma/status/1113819670 from 12 Jan 2009, and they
> joined January 2009.
>
> Because Twitter IDs are sequential, we can deduce 1112496300 is also from
> 12 Jan 2009 (from another account, 1112433733 and 1112674321 are both 12
> Jan 2009 UTC).
>
> ---
>
> doxx, v.:
>
> [Begin]
> okay I'm going to doxx her: the beautiful Erin Broadley is behind @laweekly
> http://is.gd/Ac8H #followfriday
> [End]
>
> 8:20 PM - 15 May 2009
> https://twitter.com/alexia/status/1808086827
>
> ---
>
> doxing, vbl. n.:
>
> [Begin]
> should probably avoid doxing himself.
> [End]
> 9:58 PM - 12 Jun 2009
> https://twitter.com/allnutt_eu/status/2135138251
>
> ---
>
> dox, n.:
>
> [Begin]
> I got something all anons want: Januszeals dox:
>
> 727 326 5111
>
> For those who were doxxed on net.. http://bit.ly/qadSG
>  #scientology
> [End]
> 8:13 AM - 18 Sep 2009
> https://twitter.com/WWPThreads/status/4072534788
>
> ---
>
> Doxer, n.:
>
> [Begin]
> @Guidoguido1 I know right, and N/A means Not Available. To the stupid fake
> Doxer: IT IS AVAIBLE YOUR JUST A CRAPPY DOXER -.-
> [End]
> 4:49 AM - 29 May 2010
> https://twitter.com/Nitro576/status/14946172619
>
> ---
>
> doxer, n.:
>
> [Begin]
> @PittyLett People are saying Pip is a doxer/hacker and none of them have
> proof of anything... it is actually kinda funny.   xD
> [End]
>
> 9:21 PM - 14 Jun 2010
> https://twitter.com/smiley37face/status/16166811381
>
> ---
>
> Doxxer, n:
>
> [Begin]
> @caradox @patterico @GregWHoward Sorry, I mixed you up with the
> ringleader.  Is your husband the hacker or doxxer or beandog? Or you, too?
> [End]
>
> 3:33 AM - 28 Jul 2011
> https://twitter.com/ronbryn/status/96377680378863617
>
> ---
>
> All of these, and some others, collected here:
> http://www.exquisitetweets.com/collection/hugovk/3196

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