The title says it all. I notice alot of people post on messageboards or in chatrooms using the term internets instead of internet. I think it’s used humourously but when and why did this start?
Aha thanks!
niprnet
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siprnet
iirc these count as “internets”
Though there are concerns about some governments attempting to form a “closed internet”
for example see here:
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Walling_Off_The_Net_999.html
and a country that sets up its own root servers for name resolution would, in effect, have a separate internet, if I understand it correctly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Click here for a more detailed background. Bush has used the word on no less than three separate occasions.
It’s extremely important we understand it’s not a truck. You can’t just dump stuff on it.
I am certain that President Bush was referring to IPv4 and IPv6 as implementing two separate internet protocols. So, don’t you feel silly now? You’ve misunderestimated him.
I really wish I lived in a country where people also chose to laugh at the abuse of subject-verb agreement in that quote but…well…I don’t. :smack:
Exactly! And don’t forget Internet2. I swear, it’s like everyone on Earth forgot about the time that GWB really hunkered down, studied like hell, and eventually aced his CCIE. 