Implication or not, networks were in use in the 60's and by the 70's were in widespread use!
I believe the first ever packet switched network (and packet switching is really the key technology that makes the internet possible) was created by Welshman Donald Davies at the National Physical Lab in Teddington in 1970, just up the road from where I sit right now. This was based on research he began carrying out in the late 60s.
Prior to this 1970 NPL network, the only "networks" would have been stream-based (i.e. BBS-like) where data was streamed from one device to another and stored locally, where it could then later be streamed to other devices.
EDIT: According to the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late, the first public demonstration of a packet being sent between two devices was at the NPL in August 1968. The system which would go on to become the NPL mark 1 packet-switched network.
Have you noticed nobody ever refers to the net as "The Information Super Highway" anymore? :lol:
Yeah I remember that. I found that phrase was t trotted out by the over 40's more than any other.
It's a phrase I would define as 'Guaddy' (a word of my own invention). It means a techy phrase which has long since jumped the shark, or is viewed as cool only by the person bandying it about.
Another Guaddy thing is the word 'Cyber' when used to preface words or concepts relating to internet technologies.
Well, I'd hazard a guess it was bollix, but with the correct "ocks" ending. Cyber********.
This sweary filter thing is a bizarre idea if you ask me. It just makes me want to think up ways of saying what I mean without actually having the words asterisked-out. Hmmm... (thinks)... c?nt, f?ck, sh?t, p?ssflaps, w?nk, ?rseholes. I wonder if that will beat the swear-a-tron?
Well, I'd hazard a guess it was bollix, but with the correct "ocks" ending. Cyber********.
This sweary filter thing is a bizarre idea if you ask me. It just makes me want to think up ways of saying what I mean without actually having the words asterisked-out. Hmmm... (thinks)... c?nt, f?ck, sh?t, p?ssflaps, w?nk, ?rseholes. I wonder if that will beat the swear-a-tron?
Probably more effective to install some sort of net nanny filter (on your own PC, I mean) rather than trying to make the rest of the internet conform to your requirements though. You could ban people who go out of their way to route around the silly censorship, but that would be a bit sh?tty IMO. :razz:
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Prior to this 1970 NPL network, the only "networks" would have been stream-based (i.e. BBS-like) where data was streamed from one device to another and stored locally, where it could then later be streamed to other devices.
EDIT: According to the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late, the first public demonstration of a packet being sent between two devices was at the NPL in August 1968. The system which would go on to become the NPL mark 1 packet-switched network.
Yeah I remember that. I found that phrase was t trotted out by the over 40's more than any other.
It's a phrase I would define as 'Guaddy' (a word of my own invention). It means a techy phrase which has long since jumped the shark, or is viewed as cool only by the person bandying it about.
Another Guaddy thing is the word 'Cyber' when used to preface words or concepts relating to internet technologies.
EDIT: Ooh, bollox is a rude word now?
I'd love to know what that work was, any clues?
Well, I'd hazard a guess it was bollix, but with the correct "ocks" ending. Cyber********.
This sweary filter thing is a bizarre idea if you ask me. It just makes me want to think up ways of saying what I mean without actually having the words asterisked-out. Hmmm... (thinks)... c?nt, f?ck, sh?t, p?ssflaps, w?nk, ?rseholes. I wonder if that will beat the swear-a-tron?
EDIT: Yes! :)
yes but if they get added you could just use letters that actually look like the right letters instead ;)
see you next week :)
technical solutions to social problems...
Do you mean "See you next Tuesday"???
no...
they're going to have to find an ascii art blocker plugin otherwise those naughty sweary-word users will just fire up figlet...
To solve the problem, we could just ban people that deliberately go out of their way to beat the blocker?
I'm pretty sure you can get away with it using the ascii-null codes anyway to put invisible spaces in your swearwords, so it's all ******** anyway.
EDIT: Maybe not. b*ollocks.
EDIT2: Hey, it replaces alt-255 with an asterisk! Clever.
that is certainly the easiest.
anyway, if you are really annoyed you can just say nonsensical things that sound like swearing.
oh cranking flange badgers!
rack off!
Or Push Off! as they used to say in Grange Hill.