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Tiara [my demand] ([info]mydemand) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-02-08 16:53:00

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The Internet Didn't Exist!
http://community.livejournal.com/mock_the_stupid/2119131.html?thread=50482907#t50482907

Some quotes verbatim, some not.

[info]mock_the_stupid post: Here is a small list of things that she made us write in our exercise books, under the illusion that in the 1900s...they weren't invented...

- Computers
- Televisions
- Supermarkets
- Bathrooms

Gee, technology sure has evolved in these past few years!

[info]littlekatydid: uh. you sure she didn't mean the DECADE 1900s? Like from 1900-1910? Cuz, yanno, those things didn't exist 100 years ago...

Other people: Uh, some things (bathrooms, especially) were invented then.

[info]littlekatydid: The toilet was invented (in America, where we for some stupid reason didn't learn from the Brits) in 1875. Somehow I doubt it was in common use by 1900.

[info]peebs1701: How on earth does "in common use" = "invented" By that definition the internet wasn't invented until at least the 90's.

[info]littlekatydid: The internet wasn't invented until the '90s. What we had before that was nothing that even vageuly resembles the internet. We had BBS's, a few networks such as TSN, etc, but these can hardly be called "the internet".

[info]peebs1701: world wide web != internet

[info]littlekatydid: www = internet.

[info]peebs1701: *links to Wiki article*

[info]littlekatydid: Right, because anyone interested in accuracy uses Wiki to prove a point. For all I know, you wrote that article. And besides, the system of interconnected systems didn't exist until the 90s. The military had theirs, but that didn't do any one else any good. Its kind of like the toilet. It might have tecnhically existed, but no one knew of it, or used it, so it may as well not have.

[info]fugaciouslover: Wow. For someone so interested in accuracy, you sure are free and easy with your convenient definitions.

I love the way you've decided that "just because the military had it doesn't mean it was *invented*, because they didn't share it with anyone else!"

The military had theirs, but that didn't do any one else any good. Its kind of like the toilet. It might have tecnhically existed, but no one knew of it, or used it, so it may as well not have.

BWAAA HAAA HAHAHAHAHA!

Wank ensues.


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