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Internet Nicknames

Internet Nicknames By January 1999, the Web was changing from a collection of Angelfire pages about Japanese cartoons to serious business. The Internet is notorious as an incubator of "memes," funny pictures or phrases that get passed around as a shorthand replacement for :for to Now browsers were increasingly interactive, providing deep multimedia experiences, and government and most common is "leetspeak," "133tspeak," or "133c&p34k." smugness and communication or ideas. One of the or to stand in for networks since the 1960s. Networks are difficult to draw, so illustrators replaced them with simpler and Clouds have been used as metaphors The first two nodes on the Intemet (then known as ARPANET) went online on October 29, 1969. After successfully transmitting the word "LOG," ARPANET Crashed. It's become somewhat more reliable since then. The term "Intemet" derives from "inter-networking," and was coined in 1974, by which point there were dozens of nodes across the United States and Europe. Tim Berners-Lee invented the combination of hypertext and the Internet that became the World Wide Web. He first proposed the idea in 1989 and coined the name "WorldWideWeb" (just one word at industry were embracing a Web-based Tuture. In January 1999, consultant Darcy DINucci coined the term "Web 2.0" to describe thisr this new, deep Web. Leetspeak mocks rhe k. The freshly minted Internet excited nerds throughout the scientific |community and bøyond. In 1978, the young Senator Al Gore, Jr. coined the term "Information Superhighway" while talking to a group of computer industry professionals, Gore dedicated much of his time as a public servant to arrogance of the Internet's nerdish a ridiculous and equally amorphous cloud d computing in its No sooner had the concept of cloud computing arisen than cloud enterprise arrived to swallow it whole. The tems are now mostly synonymous with big names like Google, IBM and Amazon, and how they are utilizing their vast acreages of servers to offer computing power and storage to the masses. It remains to be seen where this new infrastruc- ture will take us, but clearly the newest metaphor for the Internet appears to be one with staying power. masters by setting up a ridicu which e elite jargon only form. However, cloud No sooner was the abbreviated term ARPANET invented than people decided the name was still too long. Even before it was turned on, researchers called ARPANET simply "The Net." "The Net" remained a valid form of shorthand for decades, until the 1995 movie The Net made it clear that it was now too mainstream for cool people to continue calling the Internet "The Net." The concept of "cyberspace," a childish false moderm sense began taking shape as a concept in termet connections and the prevalence of portable devices like smartphones created a need for heavy of online communication as a vision place the most innocent n00bs use without Referring to the Internet as The term resurfaced in 2003, retooled in August 2006. High-speed In June 2006, an 83-year-old Senator made a speech on the floor of the Senate where he told the nation that the Internet is "not a big truck. It's Just as the Internet became the Net, the World Wide Web became the Web almost instantly. By June 1992, the term was popular enough for Jean Polly to coin the phrase "surfing the Web." Today, the phrase "Web surfing" has been all but abandoned, but "the Web" itself seems too entrenched as a name to change. divorced from non-electronic mnocent irony. Ralen o deschbe a social, participatory reality, was invented by William Gibson in his 1982 story "Burning that point) in 1990. On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web went live. It During the 2000 campaign, a "Teh Interweb" is classic future with open-source champions like Wikipedia and Firefox. Today, IkO WIkipec candidate referred to "rumors on the but be wary: today, leetspeak can be used with as many as eight or nine layers of irony. You must also be careful not to confuse leetspeak usage with lolspeak usage, where "Teh Interweb" is just something an adorable kitten would say. Chrome." Gibson famously worked on a typewriter, knew almost nothing became extremely popular, but the Docame real turning point came in 1993 when Mosaic, the first graphical browser, Facebook is the standard-bearer of the victorious Web 2.0, Wikipedia is annihilating all competitors in the smart computations to be done remotely from the devices we use. Talk of cloud computing is just ramping up, Toddy, Internets" during a debate. The phrase quickly became part of Internet lore, ating legislation the Internet's growth - but a misquoted 1999 interview led to ridicule of his supposed claim to have "invented the Internet." that encouraged about computers, and was therefore free to imagine a computerized future that didn't rely on giant mainframes and tape drives. a series of tubes." The Senator was trying to make the point that streaming video was hogging bandwidth, but pundits and talk-show hosts were quick to pounce on him. and it got a boost from an unlikely source recently when the President also talked about "the Internets" in July 2011. was introduced. Today, the World reference field, and cocktail party and is likely to be a buzzword for a Theatre 1 the internet Wide Web is the public face of the Internet for most people. chatter has moved on to defining long time to come. It may even be an integral part of Web 3.0. Web 3.0. "BRILLIANT" information superhighway THE INTERNETS ELOUD A SERIES OF TUBES TEH INTERWEB ***** CAER- "REVOLUTIONARY" They simply caled it web 2.0 WEB CLOUD A REMARKABLE STORY ENTERPRISE П THE WORLDWIDEWEB

Internet Nicknames

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The first two nodes of the Internet (then known as ARPANET) went online on October 29, 1969. After successfully transmitting the word "LOG," ARPANET crashed. The word "Internet" didn't come about unti...

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