I know we've had a proliferance of youtube topics on this forum so I was hesitant to post this topic, but I thought this news report from 1993 was actually quite interesting and I figured some of you would enjoy it as well. The sociologist in me finds it fascinating to look back at how people originally related to this technology and what they considered its potential to be. It makes me wonder which technology we have today that is still in its embryotic phase will become so influential in the future.
My favorite part was how they said everyone is really polite on the internet. My how things have changed.
Full Version: a computer network called internet
QUOTE(J0eiseph @ Jul 20 2006, 07:48 PM) 
proliferance
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/proliferance ??
It's not in my Webster's either.
QUOTE(J0eiseph @ Jul 20 2006, 06:48 PM)
My favorite part was how they said everyone is really polite on the internet. My how things have changed.
Go to hell!
-Pufer
QUOTE(roostersw @ Jul 20 2006, 08:05 PM)
Perhaps I just made up a word. Oops. What I was intending to do was use a derivative of prolific (which apparently doesn't exist) to communicate that there have been a lot topics made recently using youtube as a crutch for comedy.
QUOTE(Pufer @ Jul 20 2006, 08:13 PM)
Go to hell!
-Pufer
-Pufer
Ahh, thats the internet I know and love.
Did you mean crotch for comedy?
That was fascinating. :-( I am serious
QUOTE(J0eiseph @ Jul 21 2006, 02:50 AM)
Perhaps I just made up a word. Oops. What I was intending to do was use a derivative of prolific (which apparently doesn't exist) to communicate that there have been a lot topics made recently using youtube as a crutch for comedy.
Ahh, thats the internet I know and love.
Ahh, thats the internet I know and love.
I could have sworn it was a word, but am unable to find it in the dictionary on hand. It would appear that the correct word is "prolificness".
... What a lame word! I for one will continue to use proliferance. But is it proliferance, or proliference?
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I CAN INDULGE MY DEEP AND ABIDING PASSION FOR ALL THINGS THAI.
Heehee.
QUOTE(Bill Camron)
Here in Canada, nothing yet. Borders still count for something.
This, Canada, is why people hate you.
:-[ I AM SERIOUS.
QUOTE(J0eiseph @ Jul 21 2006, 01:50 AM)
Perhaps I just made up a word. Oops. What I was intending to do was use a derivative of prolific (which apparently doesn't exist) to communicate that there have been a lot topics made recently using youtube as a crutch for comedy.
Yeah, that was clear enough, I'm just giving you a hard time.
QUOTE(roostersw @ Jul 21 2006, 09:50 AM)
Yeah, that was clear enough, I'm just giving you a hard time.
I know
The internet? Sounds lame
Proliferation, perhaps?
QUOTE(MadFax7 @ Jul 21 2006, 07:31 AM)
I could have sworn it was a word, but am unable to find it in the dictionary on hand. It would appear that the correct word is "prolificness".
... What a lame word! I for one will continue to use proliferance. But is it proliferance, or proliference?
... What a lame word! I for one will continue to use proliferance. But is it proliferance, or proliference?
proliferance. Proliferate has ate, therefore the a should carry over.
Wow, Peter Mansbridge with a little bit of hair.
That was funny. :-)
I found that humorous. :-( I'm serious.
QUOTE(J0eiseph @ Jul 20 2006, 05:48 PM)
I know we've had a proliferance of youtube topics...
Perhaps protuberance?
How long before we can have the technology log on to the internet with our brains, thus creating artificial telepathy?
hm. I thought the internet was more developed by 1993 than that would indicate...
So, they have the internet on computers now!
what's this nonsense about a network? I thought everyone knew that the internet is a series of tubes
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