Inventor of the Internet

Well bugger me, he ONLY invented the WWW

Is that all??

A British bloke too

I am REIGHT CHUFFED me

One assumes old Billy Gates had something to do with some of it too

Originally posted by ncrossland

how about a thread for people to post their own made up words?

 

 

Hmmmm...maybe - as long as they have definitions too.

Or normal words with new meanings like they have on 'Im Sorry I Haven't Clue'.

eg One of my favourites from Stephen Fry:

Countryside : To kill Piers Morgan

Loads more here

Nomme

Originally posted by Martin_s

Bzzzt... again..

 

A language for communicating between living beings is different from a programming language or code because a programming language or code is a direct set of commands for a computer to carry out...

 

A living language is one where much more such as concepts can be exchanged... Not to mention ambiguities, misunderstandings... Computers don't use Languages.. they use instructions... hence the expression.. garbage in, garbage out...

 

So

Will you be e-mailing TBL to point out his mistake? Should get Watchdog onto him, for falsely ancronym-ising* HTML (not to mention XML, SML, etc) as a [programming] language.

* Yay another new word!

Originally posted by ncrossland

Will you be e-mailing TBL to point out his mistake? Should get Watchdog onto him, for falsely ancronym-ising* HTML (not to mention XML, SML, etc) as a [programming] language.

 

 

* Yay another new word!

Nah... journalists are a hopeless cause

But as with the word "ass" it can mean lots of things but you can't apply the meaning of one concept to the other in order to win an arguement... it's called cheating...

Originally posted by Martin_s

But as with the word "ass" it can mean lots of things but you can't apply the meaning of one concept to the other in order to win an arguement... it's called cheating...

and without it there would have been no carry on films

'what a lovely pear/pair' etc.

Originally posted by ncrossland

Should get Watchdog onto him, for falsely ancronym-ising* HTML (not to mention XML, SML, etc) as a [programming] language.

 

 

* Yay another new word!

Warning, pedantry alert.

[pedantry]

HTML is not an acronym, it is initials. To be an acronym the initials should be pronounceable as in WHO, UNO, scuba, nylon, radar, etc.

To be really pedantic, scuba, nylon and radar are anacronyms as the acronyms are accepted as words in their own right.

[/pedantry]

Acronym = Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning*

So that makes it an anacronym ... going dizzy... head exploding

*not true

Originally posted by Belle

One assumes old Billy Gates had something to do with some of it too

I don't think the Gates had anything to do with it really. Microsoft were quite ambivalent about the internet for some time, but then went into double speed when they saw it's rate of uptake.

Does anyone know the name of the manager at present?