"Running the Internet" and other meaningless terms

[teddymills]

I say "Does this computer have internet access?"
You say potato, I say potatoe. I dont worry much about semantics.



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From: "Paul King" <pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org>
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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:13 AM
Subject: [TLUG]: "Running the Internet" and other meaningless terms


> >
> > Okay, first of all "running The Internet" is a vague term, generally
>
> I don't know why that phrase inspired me, but it did. I began imagining
that
> this would be exactly the kind of phrase a person would utter in sentences
from
> time to time when their brain is not engaged, as if the Internet has no
> existence independent of the computer.
>
> To salesman: "Does this computer run the Internet"?
> To tech support: "The internet stopped running, and I don't know why."
> Student to teacher (brightly): "The internet is run using Internet
Explorer."
>
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