Comments on: Pants On Fire http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/08/pants-on-fire/ Rob MacDougall Dot Org Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pants Extinguished http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-970 Pants Extinguished Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:03:50 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-970 [...] Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax. [...] [...] Sweet: Mills Kelly’s why-didn’t-I-think-of-that class on historical hoaxes has completed, and come clean on, their promised hoax. [...]

]]> By: the forging of historians « by the wayside http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-969 the forging of historians « by the wayside Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:57:35 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-969 [...] 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) [...] [...] 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) [...]

]]> By: Rob http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-968 Rob Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:45:24 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-968 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. 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.

]]> By: tona http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-967 tona Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:33:19 +0000 http://www.robmacdougall.org/index.php/2008/08/pants-on-fire/#comment-967 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. 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.

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