You sir, have made me lol.Jumpman said:God made it. it was handed down through his prophets in the late 60's to bring light to all the world. This was of course before the coming of Al Gore and the descent into darkness.
You sir, have made me lol.Jumpman said:God made it. it was handed down through his prophets in the late 60's to bring light to all the world. This was of course before the coming of Al Gore and the descent into darkness.
Here, I found it on Wikipedia in the sources section.Darkside360 said:Wikipedia is not a valid source.
Generally speaking, people who say this don't really understand much of anything about how sources work, or how Wikipedia works.Darkside360 said:Wikipedia is not a valid source.
Except he's absolutely wrong about this. The internet was not made by a brit, the world wide web was. There is a difference.Clashero said:5. The Internet
... sorry, this was our idea too. Still, all credit to you for taking the idea and masterminding the creation of an indispensible tool for sexual deviants. Next!
How incredibly clever you must be, to create a Chuck Norris joke in a thread that is completely irrelevant.Grimrider6 said:You're all educated stupid!
Chuck Norris made the Internet come into existence by sheer force of will in 1986, when he got tired of always walking down to the triple-X video rental shop.
trufax
Chuck Norris jokes were funny for about 2 weeks when they first appeared. They are no longer funny. Please stop making them.Grimrider6 said:You're all educated stupid!
Chuck Norris made the Internet come into existence by sheer force of will in 1986, when he got tired of always walking down to the triple-X video rental shop.
trufax
Sorry for being thick on that. I missed it.... *lame*Jamash said:Sorry, when I made up a name like Dr Jan Internet I didn't realize I also had to specify it was a joke, I though that would be apparent.
Really, named after some called Internet?
It is now these days. If colleges accept it as a source of researched information that pretty makes it official.Darkside360 said:Wikipedia is not a valid source.
No, you try again. You obviously have no idea of what you speak of. Wikipedia is now one of the best sources of information on the Internet, period. It is edited regularly by many of the very experts of the fields that it has entries on. It is not just idiots doing the editing you know. They are real scholars. If one of then gets something wrong. another scholar edits that to make the correction. Oh, and most schooled USED to hate it, but now they realize that it is a great source.Darkside360 said:ANYONE can edit Wikipedia. Schools hate Wikipedia as a source, even the sources they list are not always valid. Try again.
You act like there are no fat people in England. Well, there sure was quite a lot of them when I was there. Stop insulting America. Who gives a rats ass about all that other shit you mentioned you stupid stuck up Brit. I know not all Brits are idiots like you, but you sure do give them a bad name.Clashero said:I'm going to quote something written by Yahtzee, where he complains about Americans claiming to have invented a lot of things actually invented in Britain. Not strictly relevant, but fun to read:
1. Hamburgers
Yum! Take the concept of a beef sandwich, make it round, add one bucket of grease, and you have the quintessential American delicacy! 'Course it was us who originally invented the sandwich but all kudos to you for modifying the concept into something slightly more marketable! You know what's so great about junk food? Fat people who eat too much die young from cholesterol poisoning! It's a problem that solves itself!
3. Television
Oh wait, this was ours. Well, you watch a lot of television, don't you! Probably why you're all so fat!
5. The Internet
... sorry, this was our idea too. Still, all credit to you for taking the idea and masterminding the creation of an indispensible tool for sexual deviants. Next!
9. Jet engine
Damn. Us again. Sorry, I keep forgetting who invented what. You know, some people might accuse me of not wanting to pay tribute to America at all, but instead trying to sling badly-disguised insults at them while promoting my own country. To these people I say, "Oh, go shoot some road signs, fat Yankee! You're fatter than Fatty McFat from Fatland on Fat People Get In Free Day!"
Really? That's troubling. Colleges shouldn't be accepting ANY encyclopedias as a valid source of information. The info should come from primary and secondary sources.axia777 said:It is now these days. If colleges accept it as a source of researched information that pretty makes it official.Darkside360 said:Wikipedia is not a valid source.
I agree, for one reason or another inventors seem to get mixed up or given no credit at all. People believe Thomas Edison had invented the light bulb, Joseph Swan did, Thomas Edison just domesticated it. There's this misconception that he invented electricity as well, when he Nikola Tesla did. Thomas Edison just sent his lackies to destroy heaps of Tesla's stuff.Ken Korda said:I don't think it's just Americans who claim this. In my experience people are generally told that someone form their country 'invented' something, usually when they just had a part in the evolution of an exisiting idea. Very few things are 'invented' as we know them now. Most technology is a product of ongoing improvement form people around the world
For example: who invented the electric lightbulb?
who invented the car?
I'm guessing that your being sarcastic, but I am not entirely sure...DoW Lowen said:I agree, for one reason or another inventors seem to get mixed up or given no credit at all. People believe Thomas Edison had invented the light bulb, Joseph Swan did, Thomas Edison just domesticated it. There's this misconception that he invented electricity as well, when he Nikola Tesla did. Thomas Edison just sent his lackies to destroy heaps of Tesla's stuff.Ken Korda said:I don't think it's just Americans who claim this. In my experience people are generally told that someone form their country 'invented' something, usually when they just had a part in the evolution of an exisiting idea. Very few things are 'invented' as we know them now. Most technology is a product of ongoing improvement form people around the world
For example: who invented the electric lightbulb?
who invented the car?
Man Edison was an asshole.
Edit: Chuck Norris actually created the net, he needed a place to store his porn.
i don't know of any good colleges that do.SeaCalMaster said:Really? That's troubling. Colleges shouldn't be accepting ANY encyclopedias as a valid source of information. The info should come from primary and secondary sources.axia777 said:It is now these days. If colleges accept it as a source of researched information that pretty makes it official.Darkside360 said:Wikipedia is not a valid source.