Re: Re: New recycling bins
By: Midnight Flip to JoE DooM on Tue Jul 12 2022 09:01 pm

Probably the most common one used across the planet is "Googling".

Actually, "Googling" is probably one of the more valid ones. How many people Google something, using a different search engine like Bing? ;)

I still feel like that sounds a bit odd, but maybe that's because I started using the internet in 1995, several years before Google existed. I still often like to say "searching" or "online search" etc. because Google isn't the only search engine around. It seems people sometimes forget there are other search engines out there.

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I still feel like that sounds a bit odd, but maybe that's because I started using the internet in 1995, several years before Google existed.
I still often like to say "searching" or "online search" etc. because Google isn't the only search engine around. It seems people sometimes forget there are other search engines out there.

I sort don't use "Googling" either. Likely because I to remember when they would print Internet Yellow Pages of sorts. Not to mention I remember using tings like Yahoo and Altavista to do searches.

As a side note, I'm not sure why people started to say "Interwebs". I always think it makes the person sound dumb. I know that most people think of websites as the Internet but there is still a whole lot more out there that's not part of a website.

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Re: Re: Common terminology
By: nblade to Nightfox on Tue Jul 12 2022 11:41 pm

I sort don't use "Googling" either. Likely because I to remember when they would print Internet Yellow Pages of sorts. Not to mention I remember using tings like Yahoo and Altavista to do searches.

"I sort don't"?
"I to remember"?

In the 90s I also used to use Yahoo and Altavista, as well as SavvySearch, Lycos, sometimes Ask Jeeves and others.

As a side note, I'm not sure why people started to say "Interwebs". I always think it makes the person sound dumb. I know that most people think of websites as the Internet but there is still a whole lot more out there that's not part of a website.

It's a joke. It's not that people are being dumb. I don't remember where it came from, but I remember people starting to say "interwebs" as a sort of joke term.
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/23549/interweb

Also, I remember someone (apparently Ted Stevens) made an analogy that the itnernet is like a "series of tubes". So sometimes now I might say "intertubes".

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I still feel like that sounds a bit odd, but maybe that's because I started using the internet in 1995, several years before Google
existed.

Yup, ditto here. I remember Webcrawler was one of my favourite search
engines beofore Google came out.

I still often liketo say "searching" or "online search" etc. because Google isn't the only search engine around. It seems people sometimes forget there are other search engines out there.

I think I've fallen into saying "google" for online searching now. I wonder if Duck Duck Go takes off if we'll all eventually starting "ducking" for things online... lol


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On 12 Jul 2022, Nightfox said the following...

In the 90s I also used to use Yahoo and Altavista, as well as
SavvySearch, Lycos, sometimes Ask Jeeves and others.

MetaCrawler!

Nightfox

Pretty sure interwebs was a president. Now it a running joke that the one person was stupid.

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"I sort don't"?
"I to remember"?

Just proves that I need to proofread before I send a message.

It's a joke. It's not that people are being dumb. I don't remember
where it came from, but I remember people starting to say "interwebs" as
a sort of joke term.
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/23549/interweb

Well that's thing. I have known too many smart people that seem to be unaware that it's a joke. They seem to think it's the correct term. Hence my comment on it.

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