Re: OT: Books at risk

In article <1180531341.851464.205130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
SpaceGirl <nothespacegirlspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 30, 2:13 pm, Justin <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
SpaceGirl wrote on [30 May 2007 06:04:20 -0700]:

By the way... Internets? There's more than one now? :)

What a sheltered life you lead.

Of course there's more than one.

We have the plain old internet, Internet 2http://www.internet2.edu/and
the interweb.

*sticks her head out of her cave for one second*

Nit picker... that's hardly a real service yet, more of a pipe-dream!
Oh and their web site totally mis-renders in FireFox. Doesn't fill me
with hope.

<Pedantic>

Actually, an "internet" is actually "internets", since "it" is a
set of connections between networks, so you basically have networks
of networks, which we conceive of as a single "Internet". But, if
you want to go by how IP addresses and domain names are parcelled
out, you could say there's a US internet, a European internet, an
Asian internet, each of which can be broken down by country or
backbone provider.

</Pedantic>

Really, it's just one ungodly meshed-up thing...

Cap.

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