when the internet was invented

[Bob]

how many encyclopedia salesmen do you think killed themselves? cause i mean, there's really no reason for them to exist, or encyclopedias for that matter. not anymore

i remember when i was in grade school, and i had research projects, i'd just use the encyclopedia, and sometimes the dictionary. we were supposed to use a minimum amount of sources, and we had to use books and stuff outside of the encyclopedia, but i'd just make up books. i never got caught. stuff like "apollo, the god of music; john stevensen, penguin press 1988, NY" nobody ever checked, i was great

anyway encyclopedias (encyclopediae?) are obsolete, there's no need for them anymore, that's basically my point right now

[Helvete]

I prefer the spelling Encyclopædia. When I was like 6, I used to ask for them for my birthday, I'd read them all and then know everything. I still know everything, the only difference is I know about triple anal and donkey sex thanks to the internet. THANKS FOR THAT!

[Bob]

I prefer the spelling Encyclopædia. When I was like 6, I used to ask for them for my birthday, I'd read them all and then know everything. I still know everything, the only difference is I know about triple anal and donkey sex thanks to the internet. THANKS FOR THAT!

buddy i don't even know how to pronounce that letter

is that one letter or two? is that a diphthong? i don't even know how to pronounce diphthong. i know how to spell it though. got it right on my first try! spelled "spell" with two e's by mistake though. does that make it a diphthong? god i'm clever

wikipedia's a great source of information too. i have my homepage set to wikipedia's random page function. give me 20 seconds and i'll give you a list of things that i'm now an expert about...and....go

Übach-Palenberg
The Emperor's New Clothes
Veronica Sutherland
Charlie Burchill
First Internet Bank of IndianaStarchildren

god i'm smart

[jabumbo]

when the internet was invented, nobody used it like an encyclopedia.


duh. you are such an idiot bob

[roosta]

The Random Topic game on Wikipedia is fun.

You and other online nerds on your IM list or what ever, click on "random topic" then see from there who can get to a predetermined topic (usually Phil Collins with us) in the least amount of clicks.

[ms.peachy]

Incidentally, if there's anything you want to know about the origins of the internet, I will be having dinner with Robert Cailliau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau) on 11 July as we working on a small project together - I'll be happy to ask him any nerdy questions you dorks may have. Even about the encyclopedia salesmen.

[yeahwho]

Incidentally, if there's anything you want to know about the origins of the internet, I will be having dinner with Robert Cailliau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau) on 11 July as we working on a small project together - I'll be happy to ask him any nerdy questions you dorks may have. Even about the encyclopedia salesmen.

Ask him for me if he can make the internet more talky and less keyboardy, I'm sick of typing.

What's your guys small project.......... Encyclopedias?

[Jadge Fucking 1]

we don't need books, bands, films... just e-jays and Ypods.

[TimDoolan]

I think the main purpose of encyclopedias now is to make lawyers look smart in those dopey tv adds.

[Bob]

those aren't encyclopedias

[insertnamehere]

Perhaps also what wikipedia lacks is a sense of 'what comes next'. For instance, in electronics you start off at fundamentals and work through. There are some indications of where to go next, but this is not intuitive enough I believe.

I personally think wikibooks are going to be amazing once they put more work into more of them. A lot are only in beginning stages. I'm using the German wikibook right now to study German, as I took 101 last fall and plan to take 102 this fall and remember nothing. There's also something in development called "wikiversity" but I'm not sure what that's going to be. They're working on creating new things though and expanding.

A friend of mine taught me an awesome trick. For sciency papers you're supposed to use journal articles, but who understands those things? Not me. So you use wiki and then put whatever article it cites for a given fact. We both had to write a lab report for bio using journal articles, but we didn't actually learn anything from the lab, so we coudln't really understand the journals. The jist of the lab was basically "sometimes things happen that makes enzymes not work so good" and all the articles we found were very chemical and complicated. Wiki to the rescue.

[Jadge Fucking 1]

hmm.

[QueenAdrock]

Incidentally, if there's anything you want to know about the origins of the internet, I will be having dinner with Robert Cailliau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau) on 11 July as we working on a small project together - I'll be happy to ask him any nerdy questions you dorks may have. Even about the encyclopedia salesmen.

He worked on the World Wide Web, which is accessed through the internet. The internet itself was actually a project done by ARPA, which is now known as DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). They make programs and things that were originally for military use and then go to civilian life (Internet, VCRs, etc.), among other things.

The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead.[1][2] ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

However, ARPAnet was mostly for internal use and when it was released to the public it wasn't nearly what it is today, so I doubt many encyclopedia salesmen killed themselves in 1958. It was probably mid-80's that the new technology appeared and they slowly started to off themselves.