"Running the Internet" and other meaningless terms

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 2 22:40:46 UTC 2003


Paul King wrote:
>>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."

And of course, we all know the internet was invented by Dan Quale!  ;-)



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