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This question intrigued me since the day I fell in love with the Internet. As the pioneers of the Internet, how would you describe it to your child/younger generation?
My description
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The Internet is a fantastic place. It's like being in a huge building crowded with people you may or may not have met before. Information is given out like fliers from workers advertising their stores.
This building have many floors too. The first floor comprises of every single one of us wonderful folks using the internet for leisure. Here, people chat amongst themselves and many new friendships are made. Social Networking websites accelerate the process of making friends, similar to broadcasting your name and position out via the loudspeakers in the building. People will get to know you and hopefully befriend you.
However, many types of people exist on this floor of the building. Majority of the people here are the 'normal' people, using the Internet for what it is meant for. Some people are the 'liars'. They disguise themselves and prey on other people. Also, a large portion of the people are the 'intellectuals'. They use the Internet to spread their knowledge of their majors and use the Internet as a form of research material. Finally, we have the 'gamers', who need no explanation as you are one yourself.
Booths are set up in this floor where people freely trade/give information and sometimes even goods (but your generation might not see it anymore... fuck SOPA). Here, you can obtain anything you want rather easily.
On the second floor of this building, people engage in trades. Companies set up shop here and invite people from the first floor to browse their goods and conveniently buy some. As bad people exists everywhere, there are 'frauds' lurking around on this floor. They disguise themselves as traders and hook you into buying their 'goods'. Once you pay them for the goods, they will disappear from your lives forever.
On the basement of this building, bad things happen. It is commonly called 'underwebz'. Here, anything of any sort happens. Drug trafficking, murder, etc. This is a very dangerous place to go to, hence the very short introduction about this place.
Hygiene is very important in this building. You can put on 'antivirus', which prevents anyone from spreading 'viruses' to you, causing you to go sick. Do note that the stronger the 'antivirus', the lower your chance of getting a 'virus' after a walk around this building. Just like real life, there are people who deliberately want to make your life miserable. They spread viruses to you on purpose or control your body in a process called 'hacking'. This is where the attacker copies all the information stored in your brain and possibly shuts down your system. Watch out for them.
There are many forms of protection that can be used in this building. People likes to turn 'invisible' by putting on a 'proxy', which scrambles all information about that particular person, rendering him invisible.
That's a brief description of what you can do in the Internet. Go out and explore it yourself!
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A place where you can find, create or maybe even talk to people about information on almost anything. It can also be used for shopping and many other things. There are lots of bad things out there too, so you have to be very careful. Come to me if you have any issues.
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There is a place of great evil...
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
a place where you are actually not free from the government
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On February 09 2012 23:17 village_idiot wrote:
There is a place of great evil...
I think that's 4chan - not the internet in general
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A place where men are men, women are men, and children are fbi agents.
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On February 09 2012 23:20 Paperplane wrote:
A place where men are men, women are men, and children are fbi agents.
hahaha, you nailed it.
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The internet is a communications tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about [things] and share pornography with one another.
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See what I'm looking at right now? Anyone else in the world can look at the same thing on their computer because it's on the internet.
Auntie Kristy is in Africa so we can't see her very often, but we can talk to her through the computer because of the internet. You can do things through the computer that we do in town, like shop or play, but it's better to do those things with people together. But for people we can't visit because they're too far away, we can use the computer to see them.
Clarification: this is for a toddler who still can't use the computer. For a kid who can use the computer, there would be a safety lecture.
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I love how the author of the topic put a lot of thought and consideration into his version of explaining the internet, and is followed by a bunch of one-liners. 1st page syndrome?
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On February 09 2012 23:28 MCMXVI wrote:
I love how the author of the topic put a lot of thought and consideration into his version of explaining the internet, and is followed by a bunch of one-liners. 1st page syndrome?
You're sure not helping.
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Probably the same way I described the internet to my grandparents:
"The internet is a way to connect many different computers together from many different places. This is not just your neighbors, but also people across town or across the country or even in many different countries around the world. Anything you can do on your computer can be connected with people who are also on their computers. That means you can share stories, check out pictures, watch movies, play games, and so on. People are always thinking of new things to do on the internet together."
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On February 09 2012 23:18 Mentalizor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2012 23:17 village_idiot wrote:
There is a place of great evil... I think that's 4chan - not the internet in general
Me: "This is the internet, all of this can be yours!"
Child: "Whoa. What about that place over there?"
Me: "That is the land of 4chan. Promise me you will never go there. Promise me!"
or something to that effect 
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I would say it is the last place that which no one can rightfully declare theirs. Land of that is wealthy with knowledge and exists also as an another form of communication
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"This is why daddy has such a strong handshake."
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The internet is a place for free information, freedom of opinion and entertainment.
That's it :B
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The internet is a place for information. You can find out anything there, including stuff you don't want to know - so I am going to supervise your use of the net until you are older.
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