The more someone knows about the Internet, its history and politics, the more likely the term internaut fits them.

Freenaut is the common designation for each internaut using the Internet through a Free connection.

Other terms roughly analogous with internaut are cybernaut and netizen, though each has its own connotation.

An internaut is cyber-slang for an online veteran who is familiar with the Internet as an entity, and with cyberspace in general.

One publication called Judge Zobel an "Internut," but this trial seemed to turn everybody who followed it into a regular surfer - an Internaut, perhaps.

Boats in Holland were imported by Internaut of Rotterdam and were sold under the name of "Inter".

An internaut is online savvy, normally through years of online experience, with a thorough knowledge of how to use search engines and search strings, Internet resources, forums, newsgroups and chat rooms to find information.