words we’d use if the internet had been invented 140 years ago

August 23rd 2007
  • To googleate instead of to google
  • Bully! instead of Yahoo!
  • Lace instead of Web
  • Skiff the Lace instead of Surf the Web
  • Carpet-bagger instead of troll
  • Bloviate instead of blog (verb)
  • Bloviation instead of blog (noun)
  • Bloviatorium instead of blogosphere
  • STFU:  Silence the Fulminating Utterances
  • Twitter (noun, verb, and character flaw)

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  1. sociallytangent wrote:

    Knitter instead of “web monkey.”

    Catalogue instead of browser.

    Varmint instead of Gopher.

    Cooky instead of cookie.

    epost instead of email.

    Automatons.txt instead of robots.txt.

    WTF: What’s This Foolery?