What do you call the internet?
By Elixiress
@Elixiress (3878)
June 7, 2008 2:03pm CST
We all know that the internet is the internet? Yet we sometimes call it other things, sometimes made up names and sometimes names that mean something slightly different, here are some of the most common:
- World Wide Web
- Intranet
- Net
- Online
So what do you call it or do you just call plain old internet.
I either call it the internet or teh internetz if I am with close friends. I think we started calling it that about 2/3 years ago when we went through a phase of adding "z" to things and saying "the" as "teh".
5 responses
@jessieBee (1046)
• Trinidad And Tobago
7 Jun 08
I sometimes call it the net,web,world line or global connection.
@Elixiress (3878)
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7 Jun 08
I have heard people call it the "net" or the "web" but never "world line" or "global connection" do you use them casually or do you just use them in formal times, such as letters or professional phone calls.
@jessieBee (1046)
• Trinidad And Tobago
9 Jun 08
I use it casually, I like to be unique and make up my own stuff and nick names. That's what makes me who I am. I like to be different.
@imbrod (268)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
7 Jun 08
I call it Web.
"Look it up on the web"
"Do we have web access?"
etc.
@Elixiress (3878)
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7 Jun 08
I never thought of that either, I have heard people calling it the "web" but I have never done so myself.
@MatejScorp13 (926)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
7 Jun 08
i think that net is used as some kind of sleng becouse i heard them a lot when im talking with someone
@Elixiress (3878)
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7 Jun 08
I never thought of calling it cyberspace as I don't think I have ever called it that in my life. Very unique.
@Elixiress (3878)
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8 Jun 08
Thanks for replying. It is understandable that what you call it cases, it all depends on the sentence that I am using it in for me "I am going on the internet" "I am online at the moment".
