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What The Internet Isn't
looseBits writes "Doc Searls and David Weinberger, co-authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, have put together a 10-part guide for how to stop mistaking the Internet for something it isn't. It contains some painfully obvious and often overlooked characteristics of the 'world of ends' we call the Internet."
For sale Dell Computer Pentium II with the Internet
I was shocked... First thing I thought was where the hell can I fit the entire Internet on my machine.
MoFscker
"It contains some painfully obvious and often overlooked characteristics"
Yes, we already know - porn...
Anyone can make the Internet a better place to live, work and raise up kids. It takes a real blockhead with a will of iron to make it worse.
So Bill Gates is a blockhead with a will of iron now?
OK, everyone hold hands. Yes, that means you, 63.47.108.33. Connect to 23.126.156.3. Good. Now, let's all sing/IM/VOIP call/FTP/HTTP:
We are the world
We are the Internet
We are the ones who make a better place
We are the bloggers.
(Take it away, Bob Metcalfe!)
It's a choice we're making,
We're changing our own lives...
Moe: "Well, if you're so sure what it ain't, why don't you tell us what it am."
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
That's pretty much what the article says. Did you read it?
> It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive
> symmetric closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP
> packet from". --Seth Breidbart
I think I got that from the nanog list a few years ago.
Homer: Ahh, so the internet is on computers now...
- A
AOL is not the internet.
But... but.. their commercials flat out say, "AOL is the Internet"!!!!
They wouldn't lie to me, would they??
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
I hope I can get the consent forms online.
Desi Noise, Live!
isn't a place for Geeks to feel superior
isn't a place to find pornography
isn't a place to talk sexually to a 50 year old man sitting half naked in his studio appartment.
the internet isn't fun now that goatse's gone...
hate titty pee colon slash slash
Funny, I live in Idaho. I even have a closet. There is web server in said closet. I am the internet.
Oh, they have the internet on computers now?
a dnow.ht ml
Also look at this:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~neteagle/oops/downlo
I sent that link to a friend and she thought something was actually downloading. Just perfect.
Holy cow, there are rules here? For the love of God, tell me where to find them!
http://milkshake.dexy.org
Hi, Al Gore!
I still have loser friends that still think the Internet is one BIG porn movie.Their sole purpose of logging on is to get porn.I bet there are a whole lot of these guys out there.
Lord of the Binges.
I remember reading one of the Internet for Dummies a long long time ago. Anyway, the last point under "What the Internet Isn't" was
"The Internet is not a breakfast cereal. Yet."
The internet isn't a lot of things, so I purpose that we improve it.
Let's make a website where people can gather together, and quote (or misquote) various famous television shows. Such as The Simpsons, or South Park.
We can also allow a certain sense of humor, and we'll offer news along with the humor. Everything will center around a penguin that has more power than the richest person on the planet.
What? Slashdot.org, huh? Well, I for one welcome our new slashdot overlords.
Learn something new.
I'm having trouble getting the internet working under MacOS 9.
;-)
Well, the internet does have some standards, you know...
World of Ends Public Draft
Posted by Hemos on Saturday March 08, 2003@09:39PM
from the and-i-feel-fine dept.
Doc Searls sent me the link over to the newest work that he and fellow Cluetrain person David Weinberger haveput together. It's called "World of Ends" although I like the subtitle "What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else" better - but that's just me. In any case, some interesting reading, particular if you like/d The Cluetrain Manifesto. Update: 03/08 14:42 GMT by CN: Yeah, this is a dupe of yesterday's story. Everyone point at Hemos and laugh.
World of Ends
Posted by michael on Saturday March 08, 2003 @01:41AM
from the it-starts-with-an-earthquake,-birds-and-snakes dept.
epeus writes "At World of Ends, Doc Searls and David Weinberger explain the End-to-End nature of the internet in terms so clear even your manager could understand them. 'The Internet isn't complicated. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. The Internet is stupid. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.' and so forth."
Maybe the date on the linked article "Last update: 4.28.03" might have been a clue that this wasn't hot news.
The Internet, of course, is more than just a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs.
- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995, In Technology/Internet
When I was a senior in high school and visiting colleges to decide which one to go to, I was at Indiana University taking the campus tour. A student was leading a group of us around campus and was talking about what the dorms are like. Someone in the group asked if the dorms were wired for high speed internet access, this being back in the day when not all schools had this yet. The girl said that they didn't have the internet, but they had the ethernet, which she said was just as good. Most of the people in the group had to try hard to suppress a laugh after that. I think she was a psych major, go figure.
...of the Internet
I was talking to a lady once who told me that "the owner of the internet is in town". Turns out she meant Stephen Case, CEO? of AOL. It blew my mind that anyone could think that one guy owns the entire internet.
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But then you have to describe the telephone system and that's tough, even for someone like Einstein. Look.
The real problem with the Internet is that there are too many articles about the problem with the Internet.
You must be unplugging your web server a lot... Many users here keep complaing that the internet is down. What's your support line phone number?
Its poor grammar.
Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
Those who would censor ideas might realize that the Internet couldn't tell a good bit from a bad bit if it bit it on its naughty bits.
Best statement ever.