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10 Things You Should Know About the Internet

neatorama.com — Ah, the Internet: you use it every day for school, work or fun. In such a short period of time, the Net has grown into an essential every day thing that it's hard to imagine life without it. Here are the 10 Things You Should Know About the Internet:

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  • 10goto10, on 07/29/2008, -1/+93Submitted by MrBabyMan, 2 hr 47 min ago: http://digg.com/tech_news/10_Things_You_Should_Kno ...
    Submitted by MediaSight, 2 hr 47 min ago: http://digg.com/odd_stuff/10_Things_You_Should_Kno ...

    Place your bets!
  • upick, on 07/29/2008, -3/+767. The Sexy Web: 12% of Websites = Porn!

    I thought this figure would be higher like 30% it seems that porn is everywhere, maybe its just where I'm looking
  • Shogi, on 07/29/2008, -11/+6410. It's for Porn
    9. It's for Porn
    8. It's for Porn
    7. It's for Porn
    6. It's for Porn
    5. It's for Porn
    4. It's for Porn
    3. It's for Porn
    2. It's for Porn
    1. It's for Porn
  • Haoie, on 07/29/2008, -0/+4111. You're on the internet right now.
  • timusca, on 07/29/2008, -4/+36I dugg this one and buried the other out of spite... take that, MrBabyMan.
  • ryan83189, on 07/29/2008, -2/+28MBM got it first, mediassight's link has a 2 after the title. Im glad he is being beat at his own game though.
  • Codename, on 07/29/2008, -2/+2613. The internet is serious business.
  • jdigg06, on 07/29/2008, -1/+19I beat the Internet on the hardest level!
  • Zarokima, on 07/29/2008, -0/+16No, it's a series of tubes!
  • WallnutBoy, on 07/29/2008, -0/+16Waitwaitwait.. I'm not following you..

    ..you mean the internet ISN'T just a big truck? o.O
  • MacBookForMe, on 07/29/2008, -2/+15The real figure is more than 70%
  • subliminalurge, on 07/29/2008, -1/+11Actually....

    After further research, it was just recently confirmed that the Internet is, in fact, a bunch of wheelbarrows pushed by midgets in clown make-up.
  • LeviTheSmith, on 07/29/2008, -1/+11I've noticed that about a few dupe stories lately. Two supposedly different users submit the same article at the exact same time.. makes you wonder if a bot is involved
  • WallnutBoy, on 07/29/2008, -2/+11Because Digg have decided that they've ***** the Frontpage up enough, so its now time to ***** up the Upcoming section, too.

    Submissions can last for like 3/4 days now.
  • DeskFlyer, on 07/29/2008, -2/+11Off topic, but why are some submissions 2 and 3 days old still on the upcoming page?
  • slayernine, on 07/29/2008, -5/+1411. It's for Lolcats
  • ewsherm, on 07/29/2008, -3/+11http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=pu ...
  • mctom987, on 07/29/2008, -0/+8wget -O http://digg.com/odd_stuff/10_Things_You_Should_Kno ... > ReadLater.html
  • mctom987, on 07/29/2008, -2/+10"70% of Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-5 workday"
    Somebody's working hard. Pun intended.
  • meruru, on 07/29/2008, -0/+7Maybe it's a diabolical plot to force us to use the recommendation engine. "You thought it was hard to look through the upcoming section when there was 10,000 stories a day? Well than good luck now that there are 40,000!"
  • meshman, on 07/29/2008, -0/+618 - Despite the rantings of those who profit from it, there has been no second version of the web.
  • dupeduperson, on 07/29/2008, -1/+6that was kind of like a little mini-history of the internet
  • Turnar, on 07/29/2008, -0/+5I laughed when I saw that the first quote in the article was from a senator who just got arrested.
  • wunksta, on 07/29/2008, -1/+615. Its a series of tubes.
  • kenedamick, on 07/29/2008, -1/+6We should all write the recently indicted Sen. Ted Tubes (the Republican crook) about this mysterious series of tubes.
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -1/+5Oompa loompa doopadeedoo.
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -0/+4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNARJPNz2CA
  • BryanJK, on 07/30/2008, -0/+4I think they are :(
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -1/+5If you knew all that, why would you think it was inaccurate?
  • bagboyrebel, on 07/29/2008, -1/+514. If you think you've seen how disturbing life can be, then just wait till you go online.
  • teamgwho, on 07/29/2008, -0/+319. Anything you do, no matter how private you thought it was or how discreet you thought you were, can and probably will end up on the internet. And probably be viewed by the person you least want to see it. The news is full of stories about

    * teen girls who flash their titties for a cellphone pic and now it's being emailed to everyone, or
    * some person arrested for drunk driving get a harsher sentence because their myspace page showed them drinking two days before sentencing, or
    * yelling at a homeless guy. Note: telling the photographer you will sue him if he pots it on the internet is probably the best way to ensure it gets on the internet. Cant find it, but this one was on digg
    * and so on and so on
  • thePTS, on 07/29/2008, -1/+4"republican crook", one of these words is redundant.
  • dmourati, on 07/29/2008, -0/+2Serious Business
  • ST0N3, on 07/29/2008, -0/+21. it's a series of tubes
  • series0ftubes, on 07/29/2008, -0/+2yes?
  • Novion76, on 07/29/2008, -1/+3series of tubes
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -0/+2good call. the whole 2.0, 3.0, is such *****... sensationalistic-nonsense.
  • ColinApocalypse, on 07/29/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Digg.
  • thefinger, on 07/30/2008, -0/+2The intern-net is a series of boobs.
  • SammoJG, on 07/29/2008, -0/+2I would have buried this had they not mentioned Tim Berners-Lee in the end. Kudos to the author for information on the WWW.
  • donores, on 07/30/2008, -0/+120. I'm from it.
  • MrSunshine, on 07/30/2008, -0/+1#425 The internet is full of ***** who don't care about privacy and are out to defame you.

    And it's a huge failure that Tim Berners-Lee only gets mentioned in a small paragraph.
  • neko6, on 07/29/2008, -1/+2"70% of Internet porn traffic occurs during the 9-5 workday" - Maybe its because when the US is in the 9-5 workday, it is evening-night in Europe, Africa and Asia, i.e. 90% of the web users?

    Egocentric somewhat...
  • RaulMuadDib, on 07/30/2008, -1/+2wrong
  • inactive, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1or http://youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg - WoW style.
  • MrSunshine, on 07/30/2008, -0/+1Considering Google makes millions with it, I'd say yes.
  • ChileanGoD, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1FTA: "I remember hearing that there was an ARPANET "conference" on the Star Trek game every Friday night. Star Trek was a text based game where you used photon torpedos and phasers to blast Klingons."

    Woa, there was online multiplayer online even before the internet.
  • ignisatra, on 07/29/2008, -2/+3Lies! Al Gore did it all.
  • ramseypawlik, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1"Internet users who view porn: 42.7%"

    Damn! The internets must be full of womens.
  • walkable, on 07/30/2008, -0/+1It's random enough that I read this article, but it's even more random that out of all of the things on the Internet, Jawed Karim was selected as one of the 10 Things You Should Know About the Internet. He's also my good friend which adds to the randomness.

    The article didn't mention that he's also created a VC firm called Youniversity Ventures: http://www.youniversityventures.com/
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