Internet - calling it "interweb"

[fulham911club]

Why do so many people on here refer to the internet as the "interweb"? Is it because people aspire to be Clarkson?

[mackie1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb

HTH

[cottonfoo]

It's wrong. It's the webternet.

[G'kar]

Could be worse.

'T'internet' is just a really annoying way of saying 'I'm a '

[Moose1978]

personally I hate 'tinterweb'

[shouldbworking]

Best alternative term for internet is Wibbly Wobby. Exclusively used by my dad I believe

[grumbledoak]

G'kar said:

Could be worse.

'T'internet' is just a really annoying way of saying 'I'm a '

Does the swear filter now include Peter Kay?

ETA- clearly not.

Edited by grumbledoak on Friday 28th November 17:30

[mackie1]

Strictly speaking the term "World Wide Web" refers specifically to hypertext documents accessed via the Internet using a browser.

[cottonfoo]

mackie1 said:

Strictly speaking the term "World Wide Web" refers specifically to hypertext documents accessed via the Internet using a browser.

Well not necessarily a browser, it specifically refers to use of the HTTP protocol.

[Blue Meanie]

Is it any different to calling a Porsche a Porker, or a Masserati a Masser? It's just a 'nickname' for the internet, and what have you.

[markmullen]

Refer to the internets, winds up people who think they have half a clue

[Olf]

so what's interweb.net then?

Edited by Olf on Friday 28th November 17:42

[Le Mans Visitor]

Wigglies

[Olf]

wubberly-wubberly-wubberly.interweb.net.com/filth.

Edited by Olf on Friday 28th November 17:47

[tinman0]

fulham911club said:

Why do so many people on here refer to the internet as the "interweb"? Is it because people aspire to be Clarkson?

Because, as the wiki entry says its ironic, and the background of many PHers is IT and networking.

[fulham911club]

tinman0 said:

fulham911club said:

Why do so many people on here refer to the internet as the "interweb"? Is it because people aspire to be Clarkson?

Because, as the wiki entry says its ironic, and the background of many PHers is IT and networking.

Ahhhh - the irony of course. Glad I don't work in IT then.

[ShadownINja]

Reminds me of when two elderly ladies were in the queue at Tesco and one pointed at the tesco.net CD remarking, "You can get the whole internet on that CD."

[BlackVanGirl]

Surely it's 'interwebnets'?

[CommanderJameson]

Actually, as any fule kno, it's "the intertubes".

[dilbert]

pornucopia?