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- [ The Internet Word Reference Book - Chapter I ] [ By The Chief ]
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- You may think that you know where the numerous and different Internet-
- related words, well the whole Internet vocabulary in fact, comes from,
- right? From the very start, the very beginning, when the second (you have to
- have two, you know) computer on the was hooked up to the Internet, when
- people started to wonder about what to call different things, applications
- and actions? These things clearly needed names. When they tore their hair in
- agony, roamed through great halls with walls covered by monstrous metal
- dragons, for a hint, just a word, anything, that could describe what they
- were doing?
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- Do you know where these words came from? You might think you do, but it
- is more probable that you do not. Here is the first chapter in the new
- edition of the Internet Word Reference Book, and because this book is pretty
- big, we start out with one of the most common used words Internet users use
- today, only to be back with more commonly used words in the next chapters to
- come. When the book is complete, the revised edition will be a collection of
- all these words, sorted alphabetically, to make it easier to look up words
- you are interested in.
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- E-mail, EMail, email Origin: Military court, Illinois, USA
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- Most people today believe that _email_ means 'electronic mail', and
- even though this is a correct definition, this was definitely not the
- meaning of the word from the beginning.
-
- Dr. Michael Simms and Dr. Joergen Rhodes, two doctors at two military
- linked companies, with one computer each on the pre-historic two computer
- Internet debated over what they would say to the other party when one of
- them had left a message for the other on the computer. This debate did not
- take place over the Internet, as the doctors did not want to take a chance,
- and give this clear action a name that the other party did not approve of
- by mistake. Both doctors had to agree on the correct word to be used, or
- the other would unplug his computer in anger, stating that the first one had
- gone behind his back in order to get to call himself 'inventor' of the word,
- or as some might say, to have coined the term, and hence, there would be no
- Internet. So they used the telephone for this debate.
-
- At first they agreed to simply say:
- - Hey Doctor X, I have left a message on your computer!
-
- They applied the theory in practice, but soon found out that they became
- extremely annoyed when they could not find a message lying somewhere on the
- big metal dragon that was the computer. There simply was no message _on_ the
- computer. So after several attempts, and even more puzzling and pretty
- lengthy searches for messages in laboratories, they gave up. Another
- solution had to be found.
-
- Dr. Joergen Rhodes suggested that if one doctor had sent a message to
- the other, the first doctor would simply not tell the other anything at
- all, and the other doctor would find out sooner or later! Dr. Michael Simms
- agreed that this was clearly the best solution to the problem, so they
- decided to try it out, and they went happily back to what it was they
- were doing at the time.
-
- One particular wednesday evening, Dr. Rhodes called Dr. Simms to tell
- him something important about a message he had sent on the computer earlier
- that day. Dr. Simms answered his phone as usual:
-
- - "Hello?"
-
- "Yes, this is Dr. Rhodes. Listen..."
-
- - "Hello there! How are things going at your end? I was just about to
- make myself a hot cup of coffee when..."
-
- "We do not have time for small talk, Rhodes! I sent... hmm..."
-
- Dr. Rhodes bit his tongue. He had almost forgot that they weren't supposed
- to say anything when they had sent a message, and decided to try the thesis
- there and then.
-
- "Have you turned on your computer today?" Rhodes asked, very proud of
- himself for thinking of this brilliant way of avoiding the problem.
-
- - "Yes, yes I have.. Aha!" Simms knew what Rhodes was trying to tell him.
-
- "Well, I have to tell you something about..."
-
- - "No, no, don't you go and spoil our theory now!" Simms said, put the
- phone down and went over to the computer to check his messages.
-
- Several years later, at exactly 6 o'clock in the morning, military judge
- Bob Slowinsky read through the morning paper while drinking his hot cup of
- coffee. Something he did every day of the year, seven days a week. He sipped
- his coffee and turned the page. A book review on page eleven caught his eye
- and he started to read what it said. He was an honest man, with a serious
- interest in books, something one expects from most judges, but not that
- experienced when it came to computers. That was something only the science
- people, those doctors, played with all day and night, he thought.
-
- His wife, Esmeralda, on her way to the bathroom suddenly heard thundering
- laughter downstairs. She went down to the kitchen wondering what was going
- on.
-
- "Ha ha ha!" the judge rumbled, almost falling off his chair.
-
- - "Bob darling, what's so funny?"
-
- "Ha ha ha!" the judge continued, almost spilling out his coffee.
-
- - "Bob!", Esmeralda screamed.
-
- "Ha ha .. Oh! I'm sorry darling, but this book review is so funny!"
-
- - "A book review.. a funny book review?" she said with a doubtful look
- on her face.
-
- "Ha ha .. Yes! Do you remember that crazy doctor, a few years ago? The
- one at the base?"
-
- - "Yes, I think so.", she said. "The one you sent to jail?"
-
- "Ha ha .. That's the one! Yes! Who completely erased our only, unique
- and complete database with top secret information about the Russian
- anti-air missile system, but claimed that it was the computer that had
- catched a cold or something, like a living human being! Do you remember?"
-
- - Yes, yes, I remember that you laughed a lot about it."
-
- "Ha ha .. Yes.. yes. Well, you know what? Here's _another_ one of those
- crazy doctors, and he has even written a book about it! Computers! Sick!
- Sick Computers! Ha ha ha!" the judge thundered, and turned the page.
-
- In the now infamous book, "EMail - Viruses & Bombs" by Dr. Michael Rhodes,
- there are of course no references or footnotes stating the fact that Dr.
- Michael Simms coined the term while being dragged out of the court.
-
- ***> The correct description of the word "EMail" is: 'Evil Mail'.
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- E-mail, EMail, email Extra Notes Origin: Norway, Europe
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- Some people, especially those living in a very cold and very small
- northern Norwegian town, claim that it was in fact a local resident,
- Email Johansen, who coined the term. Now this was way back at the end
- of the 13th century, and certainly, this can probably be proved to be
- either true or false. Sometime in the future. If we could find someone
- who cared. Anyway, the story these Norwegians tell is as follows:
-
- Email Johansen was a lonely man. He had been living on his own since he
- was twelve years old. That was when his parents went away on a holiday trip
- to Jamaica, and decided to stay there. About fifty years later, Email
- started to get really lonely, and as it was always so cold outside, he did
- not feel like going down to the local pub, or the supermarket. He did not
- have to worry about food, as his parents had left him a sack of rice and
- some beans. He did not have to worry about water, as it was always enough
- snow outside to keep him happy. So he went along doing what he was doing.
-
- Of course, Email started to get extremely lonely about twenty years later,
- and decided to try to do something about it. He thought about going down
- to the pub, but it was too cold outside. He thought about maybe going down
- to the supermarket, but the cold weather made it impossible to go further
- down the highway than about five meters. Five meters, he suddenly thought
- to himself, that is exactly how far it is from the door to my mailbox and
- back again.. maybe I can do something with this piece of information?
-
- Email started to think. Five meters. Mailbox. Cold outside. Pub. No,
- he had to concentrate on the problem at hand. Five meters. Mailbox.
- Five me.. Eureka! He had found a solution to his loneliness! Finally,
- he knew what had to be done, and so he started to write. Letters.
- Four, five, ten, twenty. Email did not stop until he had written over
- two hundred letters (though he did spend some time with his PlayStation
- now and then. Though mostly on wednesday evenings).
-
- When the letters were ready to be sent away, he put on every piece of
- clothing he owned, opened the door, and walked the two and a half meters
- to the mailbox. Well there, he put all two hundred letters into it, and
- walked back the two and a half meters to his house.
-
- Well inside, he took the clothes off again. Puffing and shaking away
- the cold and evil weather that had managed to dig into his bones, in
- front of the warm and friendly fire in the open fireplace.
-
- A week later he put on all his clothes again, opened the door, and walked
- the two and a half meters to the mailbox. Well there, he opened it, and was
- so happy to find about two hundred letters inside that he grabbed them
- immediately, and ran the two and a half meters back inside.
-
- Two hundred letters! It will take me at least a _month_ to read through
- every single letter, he thought to himself, but was very happy about the
- fact that his plan had worked! He sat down and started to read immediately.
- Every letter was very nice and clearly written with the utmost care. He
- read about fantastic discoveries, countries far away, big parties and
- long nights under star filled skies.
-
- When he had read the last letter, he was very happy. But he soon started
- to worry about how much time he had spent reading the letters, and that
- these people must have been waiting for replies for some time. So he
- started to write replies to each letter at once, and when they were ready
- he put on all his clothes, walked to the mailbox, put the letters in it,
- and walked back to his house.
-
- And just like before, a week later he went back outside to the mailbox
- and found two hundred letters inside!
-
- When the police found Email Johansen drowned in letters twelve years later,
- they were not surprised that each and every letter was addressed to Mr.
- Johansen. But they were surprised to see that none of the letters had stamps.
- Something they were no longer surprised about when they noticed that on the
- back of each and every letter, the address of sender was identical to the
- address on the front.
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