BS: Internet Phenomenon- Lack of boundaries.

Subject: RE: BS: Internet Phenomenon- Lack of boundaries.
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Feb 03 - 06:55 PM

McGrath, I second that; I'm glad there aren't a whole lot of emoticons, graphics, tag-lines and other crap like I've seen on other forums. It really makes it hard to follow what is actually in the posts and it takes way too long for the pages to download for those on dial-up (which I used to be). I'm also glad people don't include insertions of a lot of graphics, animated gifs, and pictures within their posts for the same reason.

This is a nice, clear forum where the content of the posts is what's important.

Subject: RE: BS: Internet Phenomenon- Lack of boundaries.
From: open mike
Date: 19 Feb 03 - 10:07 PM

please explain the difference between the internet and the WWW?

Subject: RE: BS: Internet Phenomenon- Lack of boundaries.
From: leprechaun
Date: 19 Feb 03 - 11:34 PM

Believe it! Plastic glow in the dark. And the Virgen Mary too.

I think the lack of any immediate threat of being punched in the nose makes some people less gentle.

I however, am always the same kind person, yes I am. I could say anything I want, and I usually do, but in my own gentle manner, as you all may have noticed. 'Cause I'm not afraid of being punched in the nose, although it's a truly abundant target. I'm too fast! I'm even invisible when I want to be, hence my name.

It's just not in my nature to be cruel. On those rare occasions when I have to be cruel, it's a lot of work for me. Whenever we play "good cop - bad cop," I always have to be "good cop."

I'm also not very opinionated.

Subject: RE: BS: Internet Phenomenon- Lack of boundaries.
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:17 AM

McGrath - I didn't mean I post as Guest when I want to be rude or contentious!!!!! - I'd rather do that in person if I'm going to, because doing it as Guest would be pretty meaningless.

I was talking about the things that I would have posted last year being very different from what I would post this year (for example) - because I change my mind about everything so much then I find that what I posted last year is inconsistent with what I post this year. I think we all change a lot over time, and it can be disconcerting when its not always obvious which slice of self is talking where. Its not a case of not taking responsibility for what you've said - but its a case of past conversations interfering with the present.
So - perhaps I could deal with that by slightly changing my name periodically. Maybe.

Kris (Feb 2003 slice)

Subject: RE: BS: Internet Phenomenon- Lack of boundaries.
From: My guru always said
Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:30 AM

Thanks McGrath for the book info - off to the shops now!

Subject: RE: BS: Internet Phenomenon- Lack of boundaries.
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Feb 03 - 08:41 AM

The Internet is a network of computers connected to computers, used for data transfer. It has been around, in one form or another, since about 1969, when it was called Arpanet (Advanced Research Projects Authority, a subset of the US Defense Department). Originally it was designed to allow someone in, say, Boston, to use the computers in, say, California just as if the computers were in Boston. (One such function used today is called "telnet.") After ARPA, universities and such large companies as IBM were the main users of the Internet back then for until about 1990, when other organizations (libraries, museums, smaller companies, etc.) starting getting into the act.

Which is why the original set of domain abbreviations were such as .mil for military, .gov for government, .org for non-profit organizations, .com for commercial, .edu for educational (i.e., university) organizations, .us, .uk, .ca, .ne and so on for the national codes.
Obviously, this wasn't nearly enough for today's needs.

The Internet was primarily text-based; you can still get text-based Internet browsers. (Don't let your kids visit porn sites! Use a text-based browser and forget about seeing pictures!   8-) )

The World Wide Web was invented around 1991 at CERN; the guy who wrote the orginal is at MIT (you can even contact the World Wide Web organization at www.www.org). It allows graphics, text, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and so on to be viewed over the Internet. There are still a lot of folks who use the Internet but who do not use the World Wide Web -- email sent via the PINE program, for instance, is text only.

[Messages on the Internet are passed along from node to node (computer to computer) until they reach you. So, if you want to be paranoid, realize that everything you send is stored for a longer or shorter period somewhere in the world (has to be -- the protocols that control it require such "caching" to insure that the entire message is received error-free)].

Hope this clarifies things. I can make it more complicated if you want....

Subject: BS: Internet Phenomenum - lack of boundaries
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 May 05 - 06:36 AM

The original of this thread is closed, but it's worth another look!

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I repoened the thread, Freda. It had been closed automatically after a period of time, but it's no problem to reopen it.
-Joe Offer-