
| gizmos, gadgets, rats, & socialism |
| controls engineer by day |
| computer toucher by night |
The internet is fundamentally just an idea, a set of protocols, implemented in the form of a billion computers. It's just as much ours as it is theirs.
I ended up in a conversation, when people first started seriously talking about this, where someone kept denying the reasons to take offense, listing other places where the same terminology gets used. And I kept asking, "and where does that use of the term come from...?"
Right? That belief was the consensus where I went to college and no amount of convincing seemed to move anybody, since they refused to acknowledge there was a problem to begin with.