go online

go online

1. To become active or begin operating. Hundreds of new factories are slated to go online over the next year, which will bring a much-needed boost to the economy.
2. To log onto and use the Internet. I'm going online to see what movies are showing tonight.
See also: go, online
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • come on line
  • come online
  • on (one's) slate
  • on the slate
  • spring into action
  • spring to/into life/action
  • be a go
  • to good effect
  • to good, little, etc. effect
  • slated to (do something)
References in periodicals archive
Melbourne, Sept 10 (ANI): People who go online to find sex partners are likely to have unsafe sex, reveals a new survey.
Urging parents to visit www.ceop.police.uk, Mr Gamble said: "Parents are able to go online and book holidays, they are able to go online and compare insurance, they are able to go online and download iTunes.
The remaining 20% of the records will go online in coming months.
Of those with internet current accounts, two-thirds go online at least once a week to check their finances, with a fifth going online daily, research found.
That means 57 per cent of households can go online, according to the Office for National Statistics.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project 2000 (www.pewinternet.org/reports), nearly three-quarters of young Americans between the ages of 12 and 17 go online regularly, and about half of all American high school students go online every day.
Europeans also go online first thing in the morning, at midday and late afternoon but log off during their lunch hour.
Call the Department of Education Resources at 202-842-6273 or go online to www.nga.gov/resources/ep-main.htm.
However, cyber-contrarian Lee Bellinger, of the 25,000circulation American Sentinel, says he has no immediate plans to go online. He responded to a speaker's reference to a site called websitesthatsuck.com by asking if websitesthatmakemoney.com exists.
SAO PAULO -- A website with more than 900,000 minutes of dissident trials proving abuses by Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship will go online this week, officials said Thursday.
To order, send off your tokens with payment for postage and your order form (If you didn't get an order form, we're printing one in Friday's paper or go online to the web address below to download it).
Internet users were also found to be better off than their offline counterparts, 61% of all individuals earning GBP32,000 or more a year go online yet only 9% of those earning between GBP6,000 and GBP12,000.
A MILLION people are expected to go online this weekend to see the five porcine stars of internet reality show, Pig Brother, hamming it up for the cameras, according to its organiser yesterday.
However, despite taking the first steps to go online many are now unsure as to the best way to move from where they are today to where they want to be in ebusiness terms.