What exactly is the "interweb"

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Is it any different from the Web?

― sam therapy, Friday, 16 April 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Lady if you have to ask....

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

it's this thing. . .

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

no, this thing!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the correct term is the 'modern interweb'.

― robster (robster), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah it's definitely not that bit!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone else noticed that over the last 18 months or so, the word 'interweb' has been popping up in print? For some reason I thought someone on ILX or Sinister invented it. Maybe they did.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Tag's exflatmate, Julian, invented it. (Gosh, today is a trip down Memory Crescent, isn't it?)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd take a left into Roddington Place if I were you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

but the more important question is can we eat it? (alright i'll stop with the ilx memes)

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim Berners-Lee got a vast sum of cash and a nice award this week. Respec.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

did Starry first start this term on ILXOR?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i seem to remember googling it once and attomikbrane (or one of it's predecessors) was the second hit and JOSH WHEDON'S BLOG was the first hit...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=modern+interweb

first three links are "us" related...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Did this "Julian" invent Gaydar, as well? Sheesh!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

however, if you search for "modern interweb":

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22modern+interweb%22

about HALF of the 149 hits are definately "us"...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend who's getting married used the phrase "modern interweb" in his invitation instructions and he has no connection to anything to do with Sinister or ILX. He may feasibly have picked it up off me, though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but if 'interweb' was already out there then adding the 'modern' bit isn't all that amazing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Searching sinister leads you to message which is also an early usage of "metrosexual"!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

When was 'Metrosexuality' on telly? (sorry Ricardo)

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Feb 2001! Stevie is king.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=interweb&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=1994&lr=&hl=en

The oldest instances of "Interweb" in Google's newsgroups archive suggests it was used in an episode of Babylon 5 around mid July, 1994.

― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

They were just confused aliens!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Another interweb here, but with homosexuality of the non-groomed variety.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 16 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I was using "interweb" a very long time ago, however, "the modern interweb" is something I nicked off lovely Joss and the Corpo boys, and think I'm responsible for spreading it to ILx...

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The message I linked to also contains a use of "creepynutfreaks" which has sadly failed to take off outside of my head.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22modern+interweb%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=16&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=2000&selm=15a8ef1f.2b26f73e%40usw-ex0103-019.remarq.com&rnum=1

― Stuart (Stuart), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Ahh, so it may well have come through the Jimmy Cake people, and (as some evidence suggests) originally from DV & friends. Also the source of cockfarmer.

Dublin R00LZ U R ALL GAY!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

! That's not the Joss Starry meant!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

joss the drummer, nicest man in the world joss.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

oh he is yes, perhaps the most shining example of humanity

― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The best drummer in the world, too.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Possibly also the loudest

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

You and your ears.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Just to prove that nothing happens till it happens twice, look at this excerpt from a 1996 USENET post:

I don't remember the source of it but years ago I read an article
which talked about something they called "metrosexual". Their
contention was that there was an urban sexuality (or lifestyle
involving sexuality) which was common to some people who lived
in large cities and expressed itself in very similar ways for
both gay and straight people.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's the INTERnational spiderWEB. Kind of like a trade union for arachnids.

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought one of the first uses of "metrosexual" was by Mark Simpson in 1994.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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