An Inquiry to Online Communication

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omzdog

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Is it not interesting how we, the community of MnB, have our own internet enclave?
Is it not interesting that we are able to literally 'talk' to each other beside the fact that many of us live in Britain, US, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and oh the countries?
Can we not but with the click of a single button exchange a year's worth of information? Information by which we enlighten, disprove, and support each other.
Is it not interesting that I can put my opinion here and it would be considered with the utmost rigor and will undoubtedly be read by at least one other person?

It is indeed. In fact it was so interesting that I had to waste time to post my opinion of the matter here, perhaps to hear what others have to say and perhaps to inform people of what I think. Not even I know. Of course, we must understand that the invent of the internet is novel and the concept of global homogeneity is actually a quaint possibility. Such rapid transfers of information and such rapid responses. I could say 'Hi' and you would say 'Sup' and from there it will begin a tennis match, with the back and forth of talk. Idk, perhaps I'm a little too excited about it all. Perhaps our age is advancing and I need to continue rushing along with you all to stay with the pack. But for just 5 minutes I ask you to wait a while and marvel at the possibilities.
 
I think about this from time to time. It is rather interesting to think about, how the Internet allows people who will most likely never meet in reality to have a community.
 
Yes, yes.
We have our own 'sub-internet cultures' I guess you could call them. But this is not the right name.
A culture is usually an excluded group of people. The internet has done everything but excluded us. In fact it has done the opposite.
 
A community, with it's own sub-culture. I don't really ever think about it very much, it seems natural to me now, but it is interesting.

It is also interesting how fragile online communities are. If the server dies, and the backups are lost, everything is gone. Other communites or the people in the community, or just random idiots piling in can destroy it too.
 
mdk31 said:
AK47 said:
I'm sure Kobbie'd be flattered.

Anyway, I see the internet as a bunch of tubes...
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Good sir, begging your pardon, but I believe what you had meant to say is "a series of tubes".
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I meant to say a bunch of tribes warring against each other in attempts to display intellectual, egoistical, physical and/or societal dominance.

Though with the presence of so many youtube ripoffs, a bunch of tubes works fine.
 
To tell you the truth, I still don't understand the internet.

It is indeed the ocean by which our little boats can escape the imperialistic power of the government. I laugh at the authority.
'Catch me you bureaucratic bastards!'

It is the ocean by which we may resist the clutch of information imposed on us.
Nay, the sky, nay, the very dark space of our universe.
We can now fly our little spacecrafts around jumping from planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy.
We see stars, asteroids, comets, planets, gas clusters, and everything. It is freedom.

But the bureaucrats seem to think its a series of tubes. Let them be blind.

Oh and AK47, I love the new avatar.
 
I've never though about it too much, since it seems so natural to just log in and post something. But you're right, the internet connects pretty much the whole world together. I can learn about pretty much any culture, if I want to talk about cooking, I can go to a cooking forum, same for movies, games, anything really.

It makes me wonder how people in the past lived without it. I mean, it seems to me that people in the past must of been pretty ignorant, not having the chance to be exposed to different cultures/peoples/opinions in this manner. I guess in some ways we are more ignorant than past generations as well.

The internet is largely responsible for my change from a close minded sheep to an open minded individual. I'm glad I was able to experience something like it.
 
Omzdog said:
To tell you the truth, I still don't understand the internet.

It is indeed the ocean by which our little boats can escape the imperialistic power of the government. I laugh at the authority.
'Catch me you bureaucratic bastards!'

It is the ocean by which we may resist the clutch of information imposed on us.
Nay, the sky, nay, the very dark space of our universe.
We can now fly our little spacecrafts around jumping from planet to planet, galaxy to galaxy.
We see stars, asteroids, comets, planets, gas clusters, and everything. It is freedom.

But the bureaucrats seem to think its a series of tubes. Let them be blind.
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We may soon be denied access to many of the world's sites, thanks to things like internet censorship, though our opposition parties in Malaysia did mount a campaign via blogs that dropped support for the government down from roughly 70% to 51%.
Omzdog said:
Oh and AK47, I love the new avatar.
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Thanks.
 
I was going to mention that in my post. I've seen that more internet providers are trying to take control of what goes on with the internet.

I remember one article detailing plans that internet providers wanted to go through with, to split up the internet into packages, so pretty much you have to pay money for each package just to be able to view the sites in that package. Naturally, this would be the death of small independent site owners as traffic to their sites would plummet.

Already, some companies are trying to impose bandwidth caps on customers, Rogers and Time Warner tried to do it in the US, but were met with fierce backlash so TW's plans to enforce those caps in June are apparently on hold.

Although in Canada, companies like Cogeco have started doing it, and from what I've researched so far, apparently the majority of Canadians are apathetic about this and apparently like taking it up the rear while it's being fought against in the US. Their reasoning being that 1% of their customers are using all the bandwidth downloading movies, which I found after researching to apparently be bull****. I thought it was awfully convenient that they started doing it after Rogers and TW started doing it.

From what I have researched, it would actually be cheaper for them to grow and accomodate the growth of the internet as they should be doing instead of finding more ways to strangle customers for cash.
Anyway, I've ranted enough for now. I think in the future the internet's going to be more restricted and controlled by big cable companies.
 
Heh, and, amazingly, the internet is one thing that actually doesn't harm our world.

Think about it. We can make as many frivolous things as we want without any major side effects. Its an encouraging thought.
 
Mondos said:
It makes me wonder how people in the past lived without it. I mean, it seems to me that people in the past must of been pretty ignorant, not having the chance to be exposed to different cultures/peoples/opinions in this manner. I guess in some ways we are more ignorant than past generations as well.
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We had stuff called "letters" and "telephones". If we were interested in what other people thought, sometimes we would read a "book" or "newspaper", which were a lot like forums except anything you wanted to post tended to take a few days to turn up.
 
Arch, don't be a douche for the fun of it. This is called a forum because it is more akin to a forum where multiple members voice opinions than a direct phone call.
 
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