# Are you a Homo Sapien or Homo Interneticus? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842 "2015-09-03T19:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/1 "2015-09-03T19:19:54Z")
BBC has coined the term [Homo Interneticus](http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/03/100315_the_virtual_revolution_part_four.shtml). Homo Interneticus does not have any offline friends. They are addicted either to talking/arguing online, or playing video games or worse. I have recently achieved level 99 in Magic, Range, Slayer, Summoning in [Runescape](http://www.runescape.com). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/2 "2015-09-03T19:34:25Z")
Just FYI, the “s” in sapiens doesn’t make it plural. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/3 "2015-09-03T20:00:09Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Just FYI, the “s” in sapiens doesn’t make it plural. 😉 Being a Homo Interneticus I make some mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/4 "2015-09-03T20:06:42Z")
Doesn’t being able to see the poll kind of self-select for not being Homo Sapien? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/5 "2015-09-03T20:16:58Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Doesn’t being able to see the poll kind of self-select for not being Homo Sapien? :dubious: Not everyone who uses the Internet is a Homo Interneticus – only if you have [Internet Addiction Disorder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_addiction_disorder). ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/6 "2015-09-04T08:55:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Just FYI, the “s” in sapiens doesn’t make it plural. 😉 Also, the specific epithet should not be capitalized, and the whole thing should be either italicized or underlined. _Homo sapiens_. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/7 "2015-09-04T09:14:33Z")
I’m just a plain ol’ homo. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/8 "2015-09-04T12:44:43Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m just a plain ol’ homo. There aint nothin’ plain about _you_ 🙂 As for me, I’m neither one; kind of a Billy no mates ☹ ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/9 "2015-09-04T18:27:59Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > Also, the specific epithet should not be capitalized, and the whole thing should be either italicized or underlined. _Homo sapiens_. Thanks – being a _Homo Interneticus_, I have my own grammar style. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/10 "2015-09-04T18:29:29Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m just a plain ol’ homo. You have over 24,000 posts and I have at most 6,000 in English and 8,000 in Russian – you are a Homo Interneticus like me. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/11 "2015-09-04T23:00:24Z")
I considered myself Homo Ntherange. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/12 "2015-09-05T07:29:20Z")
I read an article about how the internet is replacing our collective memory. There’s no need to remember most things when you can just look them up or store them in a text file or whatever, nor need to remember spelling, phone numbers, etc. I can’t remember what it was called though… ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/13 "2015-09-05T08:12:57Z")
Cracked has mentioned that, I think. One of the “After Hours” bits takes it further, explaining that the Internet (+ its users) is an emergent intelligence. We are _part_ of Skynet, as it were, or rather of something even weirder. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/14 "2015-09-05T09:40:18Z")
I’m just a _Ho_. I’ve read Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ though, after stumbling across it during a 72-hour bleary-eyed 'net binge. By any loose definition, that makes me a _Ho_. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/15 "2015-09-05T13:32:38Z")
I believe the term is [dorkus malorkus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZrR7orcrE) ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/16 "2015-09-06T00:42:31Z")
\> I considered myself Homo Ntherange. Could you please explain. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/17 "2015-09-06T00:43:44Z")
\> There’s no need to remember most things when you can just look them up or store them in a text file or whatever, nor need to remember spelling, phone numbers, etc. That is part of Human Devolution. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-homo-sapien-or-homo-interneticus/729842/18 "2015-09-06T00:47:44Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > \> I considered myself Homo Ntherange. > > Could you please explain. ♪ “…where the buffalo ROM and the /dir and the GNU play…” ♪