The dirty secret of theinternet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", "share the things you love with the world" and so on.
2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, inThe Guardian[2]:
He was able to do this because theinternet, which had been publicly available since January 1983, enabled it.
Alternativeletter-case form ofInternet(“global community of individuals communicating via the Internet”)
As soon as the trailer was released, theinternet went nuts.
In 2014, a hot dog entrepreneur, Laura Ustick, general manager of Superdawg in Chicago, Illinois, asked theinternet to get behind her in support of the Emoji Hot Dog.
On Friday, as theinternet reacted to the video of Thomas getting arrested for walking in the street, the city rushed out a statement explaining what happened around noon last Wednesday.
2021,The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing for Museums,page64:
One of their most recognised challenges was posting a photo of an animal from their collection and challenging users to Photoshop that image into other paintings. @TheMERL gave the call to action and theinternet answered.
2008 April 5, “Anonology”, “Narconon Exposed tonight on Canadian TV”, inalt.religion.scientology[3] (Usenet):
You did a nice job there Patty … you came off as intelligent, well-spoken, and concerned about the well being of the victims, in stark contrast to the self-serving, uncaring, unconcerned attitude of the Narconon spokeswoman. 100internets for you!
2010 August 7, “Bilbo”, “Looking for a Billiard”, inalt.smokers.pipes[4] (Usenet):
I have been looking through CupOJoes and kind of want something dark with a silver band between the bit and the bowl [of the pipe]. That's not a must, but 1000internets go to the first person to find one.
2011 November 12, David Johnston, “What Did You Watch? 2011-11-10 (Thursday)”, inrec.arts.tv[5] (Usenet):
You win oneinternet.
2011 October 14, Unifarva@sticklerboi.com, “10 Not So Insanely Great Things Apple Released Under Steve Jobs”, inrec.sport.pro-wrestling[6] (Usenet):
I hope this is sarcastic. Otherwise -100internets for you.
2013 February 26, Devon H. O’Dell, “[9fans] Ancient History: ‘Electronic Mail Without Aliases’”, incomp.os.plan9[7] (Usenet):
The lowercase spelling "internet" is much more common in popular usage than the capitalized spelling "Internet", whereas, among theISP companies, the capitalized spelling is still the more-typical form.
Having no idea what that means, I aminternetting like mad.
2002, Soshana Keiny, “The Conceptual Framework of the Book”, inEcological Thinking: A New Approach to Educational Change, Lanham, Md., New York, N.Y.:University Press of America,→ISBN,page14:
We have several groups of Internetters, from Alaska, from New Zealand, and a group from San Francisco interested in deserts as a context where different faiths developed.Internetting with them could stimulate discussion.Internetting with other countries is seen as a way of broadening the students' areas of interest and triggering their questions.
2005,Vincente L. Rafael, “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines”, in Daniel Rosenberg, Susan Harding, editors,Histories of the Future, Durham, N.C., London:Duke University Press,→ISBN,page87:
Most of us, before and after the second uprising, can be found in schools, offices, or factories, going about our everyday lives. Dreaming, working hard for a future. Texting,internetting, entertaining ourselves in the present.
2021, Shirley Goldberg, chapter15, inEat Your Heart Out (Starting Over; 2),[Adams Basin, N.Y.?]: The Wild Rose Press,→ISBN:
I collect cookbooks, too. And recipes, you know, that I'veinternetted.
1856 March,John O’Fallonet al., “Article IV. Report on the ‘Overland Mail’ from Missouri to California.”, in M. Tarver, H. Cobb, editors,The Western Journal and Civilian, Devoted to Agriculture, Manufactures, Mechanic Arts, Internal Improvement, Commerce, Public Policy, and Polite Literature, volume XV, number 4, St. Louis, Mo.:[…] M. Niedner & Co.,[…],→OCLC,page250:
A railroad performs in a single day as much work as a ship in a whole year. This is done, too, in the midst of society,internetted among the cities, the farms, the dwellings of the people.
1862 September, “The Two Sicilies in 1862.[First Notice.]”, in [Charles Patrick Meehan], editor,Duffy’s Hibernian Sixpenny Magazine, volume II (New Series), number 9, Dublin, London:James Duffy,[…],→OCLC,page284:
With 1849 began the organization of the secret societies, which, regulated from Piedmont,internetted the entire southern peninsula.
As the light filters through some gap in the topmost boughs into the damp atmosphere, it magnifies and confuses the foliage, and lights up thousands of monkey-ropes, orlianas, that hang from every branch through the forests and which stretch without beginning and without end, hanging loosely like gymnasium ropes, or swung up again in a giant loop, often twisting into fantastic knots as itinternets with some other portion of the mighty cable.
These studies finally resulted in the discovery of a membrane guanylate cyclase transduction system that isinternetted with seven transmembrane receptor signaling system.
2004, “Phase I Report: Operational Test Design and Evaluation of the Interim Armored Vehicle”, inImproved Operational Testing and Evaluation and Methods of Combining Test Information for the Stryker Family of Vehicles and Related Army Systems: Phase II Report, Washington, D.C.:National Academies Press,→ISBN,page118:
The synergistic effects achieved byinternetting highly trained soldiers and leaders with platforms and organizational design enable the force to avoid surprise, develop rapid decisions, control the time and place to engage in combat, conduct precision maneuver, shape the battlespace with precision fires and effects, and achieve decisive outcomes.
We are continuing our program ofinternetting our radar system with that of the Federal Aviation Agency.
1975 March 7,Malcolm R[oderick] Currie (witness), “Statement of Dr. Malcolm R. Currie, Director, Defense Research and Engineering, Accompanied by Laurin A. Knutson, Assistant Director (Programing) O.D.D.R. & E.”, inFiscal Year 1976 and July–September 1976 Transition Period Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, and Active Duty, Selected Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Strengths: Hearings before theCommittee on Armed Services,United States Senate, Ninety-forthCongress, First Session on S. 920[…] Part 6: Research and Development[…], Washington, D.C.:U.S. Government Printing Office,→OCLC,page2756:
More efficient means ofinternetting the computers in the system must also be developed.
Other less dynamic examples of information networks include intelligence or military command centers,internetted with communications including different kinds of voice circuits, (i.e., encrypted and non encrypted), data communications, teletype, facsimile, and the like.
1985 spring, Robert J. DeSutter, Jr., “SALT Nonviolations and the Evolution of a Compliance Policy”, in Robert J. DeSutter, Jr., compiler,Selected Readings and Documents on Postwar American Defense Policy, volume III, [Colorado Springs, Colo.:United States Air Force Academy]; Washington, D.C.:U.S. Government Printing Office,→OCLC,page[1041]:
[…] Soviet interceptors have beeninternetted with radars, enabling the use of early-warning radars to track reentry vehicles for interception.[…] [T]he Soviets have evidentlyinternetted their SA-5, not with earlier mechanical radars, but with phased-array systems that are far more adequate for reentry vehice tracking purposes.
We hear that Air Force Intelligence has officially concluded the Soviets have rolled production lines to break out of the ABM treaty and deploy a nationwide anti-missile system, which could possibly be in place by next year.[…] [T]he Soviets areinternetting their early-warning radars[…]
Question. How will the various radars of the Caribbean Basin Radar Network beinternetted together? / Answer.[…] These operation centers will also beinternetted so as to share surveillance data and coordinate tracking/interdiction efforts.
An experiment conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the ARPANET experiment sought to explore technologies for the networking of remote research sites. ARPANET sends independent digital packets over networks "internetted" together to pass information.
2000 June, David E[ric] Pearson, “WWMCCS Intercomputer Network”, inThe World Wide Military Command and Control System: Evolution and Effectiveness, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.:Air University Press,→ISBN,page186:
Emergency "patches" were applied to WWMCCS's General Comprehensive Operating System software as engineers desperately tried to find a way to work around the limitations of the Honeywell 6000 computers so that the network's nodes could be effectivelyinternetted.
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2009, Raúl Candeloro,A Hora da Virada, Elsevier Brasil,→ISBN,page58:
Digamos que eu queira colocar umhome theater na sala de minha casa. Posso comprar a televisão em um lugar porque é mais barato, comprar as caixas em outro porque um amigo me indicou, comprar o resto do equipamento num site dainternet e receber em casa, e depois tentar montar tudo sozinho.
“internet”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
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