Tuesday 7 March 2006

Terminology

I once heard a conversation between co-workers that included the instruction: "just open up the internet..." and suddenly decided that I did not want to live in a world where Microsoft Internet Explorer is known as "the internet". To me, that sounds just as if you called a window in your house "picturesque mountains". They're not the same thing - one is a tool and the other is the collection of information it can display to you.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - I do hope it's a minority of people who speak that way.
PPS - I am in the minority of people to whom this is a problem.

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