Future Internet World - Your Opinions

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by emmanuelle

Yes, I am quite aware of all the famous quotes about learning from the past. I was just hoping that this thread could be a little more useful and interesting :-)

What you mean listening to me and Toby bicker over whether 'intranet' is a new word, is not interesting and useful?

(Well at least it got Tickler to post that article to show Steven L. Telleen coined the word in 1994, that article is interesting and useful, even if our argument was not.)

[Toby]

Originally Posted by ecchi

What you mean listening to me and Toby bicker over whether 'intranet' is a new word, is not interesting and useful?

(Well at least it got Tickler to post that article to show Steven L. Telleen coined the word in 1994, that article is interesting and useful, even if our argument was not.)

I never said that intranet wasn't a newer word. What I was calling bullshit about was your statement below that the term internet (lowercase i) was used to refer to local networks.

Originally Posted by ecchi

..."the internet" is a small collection of computers connected in a local area...

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Toby

I never said that intranet wasn't a newer word. What I was calling bullshit about was your statement below that the term internet (lowercase i) was used to refer to local networks.

Jesus Christ not only did we take part in the most pointless argument ever on this board, but we were arguing about different things?

Toby, please be clearer in future. You quoted my line "intranet is the 'Americanisation' of internet" and said about it "ecchi,.....you're also full of shit", so obviously I assumed it was the line that you quoted that was 'full of shit'. And later you refer to my reply as "bullshit you posted in response to my intranet vs internet post". What was I supposed to assume you were talking about?