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Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 10:36:50 AM   
MercTech


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Status: offline 		Some neologisms just strike me as profoundly ignorant and my first my first instinct is to treat them as I would the night deposit by the neighbors canine... scrape them off the shoe in disgust. Textspeak and Ebonics have long been in my radar on this subject.

I keep seeing the term "interwebs" used in the chat rooms and on the occasional blog. Ahem, there is no such thing. The internet has a portion of its bandwidth used for world wide web applications. There are many more applications on the internet than hypertext markup language (Yes, dodo Dorothy, your web browser uses HTML to display information).

Amazing how so many people use a term that causes them to sound like a total putz.

Rant done.... life has enough tribulations that mental speed bumps of idiot language choice shouldn't really matter.
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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 10:45:12 AM   
masmiss


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You'll feel a lot better about the funny things people say.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 10:50:01 AM   
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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 10:55:46 AM   
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... Ahem, there is no such thing. The internet has a portion of its bandwidth used for world wide web applications. There are many more applications on the internet than hypertext markup language...

I never say interwebs, but I didn't know that the Internet uses just a portion of its bandwidth for web applications. Would you talk about what some of those other applications are?

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 11:02:40 AM   
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The internet has a portion of its bandwidth used for world wide web applications.

Interwebs is a lot shorter term than World Wide Web Applications.

Hm, 'webs' is even shorter, of course.

Okay everybody: henceforth we say webs instead of interwebs.


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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 1:16:57 PM   
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ORIGINAL: MercTech

I keep seeing the term "interwebs" used in the chat rooms and on the occasional blog.



It's spelled "interwebz"

Geesh, if you're gonna be a net Nazi, at least also be a spelling Nazi as well.


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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 1:36:18 PM   
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Amazing how so many people use a term that causes them to sound like a total putz.

EXACTLY! I mean even the most cursory of traffic analysis or even reading random geek blogs tells us that http traffic.... oh wait... I forgot... none of this is anything other than pedantic ridiculousness... something I've come to expect on the interwebs.


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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 2:03:09 PM   
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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 3:22:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Blame Dubya. He said it during a debate in 04 and it got picked up as a humorous way to refer to the internet.

He's not the first President to make a change to the language. George Washington is the source of the superstition that hanging a horseshoe above your door is lucky. He wrote while still a surveyor, that a parcel of land he surveyed was so swampy that a man would be exceedingly lucky to find a horseshoe there. After his death, the letter he wrote it in came to light and the phrase was publicized.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 5:08:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hanging a horseshoe for luck has been around much longer than Washington.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 5:28:01 PM   
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One of the great joys of CM is the array of things I learn.

A bit more on horseshoes:

http://www.livescience.com/33116-lucky-horseshoes.html
Says the custom began with the Celts but doesn't give a date.

http://www.americanblacksmith.com/blacksmithstable/good_luck_horseshoe.htm
Says it's a "long tradition" linked to scaring devils away.

http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=56&id=66537
Says Washington had his horses shod in gold after his inauguration. Not adding that to my repertoire without a second source.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 5:35:27 PM   
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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/8/2013 6:05:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		The horseshoe over a house has been around for quite a long time. Having done my family research and being German, it was something wrote about in a family bible back around 1650. This is a favorite tradition among the Amish and Brethren.


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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/9/2013 11:46:18 AM   
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I get a mental speedbump over people that don't get the difference in "lose" and "loose". Over the weekend a couple of acquaintances just could understand why I couldn't stop laughing when she called another lady "a real looser"..... I suggested she tell the person about kegle exercises.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/9/2013 12:59:38 PM   
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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/9/2013 5:34:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		Eric Sloane, the renowned artist and antiquarian found a link between publication of Washington's letter and increased usage of horseshoes. I'm not planning on rereading all his books to link it though.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/9/2013 10:41:03 PM   
MercTech


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quote:

ORIGINAL: theshytype

The rant reminded me of this:

Computer Guy


I can empathize.... I worked in an office once that had a huge problem with broken cup holders.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/10/2013 7:08:20 AM   
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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/10/2013 7:12:51 AM   
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ORIGINAL: MercTech


quote:

ORIGINAL: theshytype

The rant reminded me of this:

Computer Guy


I can empathize.... I worked in an office once that had a huge problem with broken cup holders.


Yes, there are plenty of those, too.

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RE: Interwebs - minor rant - 9/10/2013 12:42:57 PM   
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Eric Sloane, the renowned artist and antiquarian found a link between publication of Washington's letter and increased usage of horseshoes. I'm not planning on rereading all his books to link it though.

No need. With the unlimited power of teh interwebs at our finger tips, it is but a few seconds' work to discover that the passing mention of the apocryphal origin for the superstition appears on page 65 of Sloane's Cracker Barrel. But, considering the superstition isn't limited to America and predates Washington, it's pretty clear Sloane was mistaken.

George W. Bush isn't directly responsible for coining interwebs, either, although his (mis)usage of "the Internets" probably did spur adoption of the intentionally ignorant-sounding humorous term. In an added twist of irony, there actually technically are multiple Internets.

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