"Running the Internet" and other meaningless terms

[Paul King]

> 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!  ;-)

Ohmigod! I thought it was invented by Bill Gates! Isn't that letter "e" on the 
side of the MS Windows screen the secret behind it all?
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