Mills Kelly is teaching a course this year that has me seething with jealousy awed respect: Lying About The Past, complete with a second term create-a-hoax practicum.
Pants On Fire
August 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Academia · Asides · Concept Courses · History@Play · Teaching
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1 tona // Aug 26, 2008 at 5:33 am
brilliant. Mills rocks. I’m curious about something in your new new, can you define “interwob” and tell me if it’s a word of your invention or if I as a digital historian ought to know what it is? love your blog.
2 Rob // Aug 26, 2008 at 6:45 am
It’s an intentionally clueless attempt to describe the internet.
I guess when the net exploded in popularity, bringing in millions of clueless new users, hackers and other computer experts started talking about the “interweb”, intentionally and incorrectly conjoining the words web and internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb
See also “teh interweb”, “the internets”, “the intarnets”, “series of tubes”, and “videofilm.”
For me the joke is meant to be at my own cluelessness, not anybody else’s. I still find the vastness of the interweb to be confounding and bewildering.
Misspelling web as wob was, I thought, my own invention, but Google, that great ego-destroying equalizer, finds a couple thousand other uses.
3 the forging of historians « by the wayside // Aug 26, 2008 at 11:57 am
[...] I also had the idea of including forgeries and hoaxes in the readings without marking them as such. The idea was to see if students could figure it out for themselves. But it never occurred to me to have them create a hoax of their own. (via) [...]
4 Pants Extinguished // Dec 18, 2008 at 6:03 pm
[...] Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax. [...]
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