[Vision2020] Question about Googling terminology

[Donovan Arnold]

"The phone system, at least to my knowledge, was never thought of as  this separate thing that had it's own culture and a life of it's  own.  Ditto television.  Phones connect one-to-one, not  really as part of a community except in the sense that you could call  anyone you knew the number for.  Television was mostly one-way, so  no community there." Paul Rumelhart
  
 Boy, I am going to have  disagree with this statement. I think the telephone and TV have created  very noticeable cultures and changes in our society. Telephones  connected you with anyone else that had one. It changed the social  fabric of society. Same with television. Ever see a Star Trek  convention, there is a huge TV culture.
  
 I also think that  television is two-way communication; it is just that people don't  communicate back in the same manner. They communicate in mass by  changing their behavior in response, usually, by buying a product or  service they saw advertised. 
  
  Best,
  
  _DJA

Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:            I'd argue that the telephone and the television are the equivalent of  the computer, which is always lower case, but there is no equivalent to  the multi-headed hydra that is the Internet.  The phone system, at  least to my knowledge, was never thought of as this separate thing that  had it's own culture and a life of it's own.  Ditto  television.  Phones connect one-to-one, not really as part of a  community except in the sense that you could call anyone you knew the  number for.  Television was mostly one-way, so no community  there.  The Internet is, in my mind, different.  It's unique,  and deserving of it's capital "I".  It's more like a place than an  object.
  
  Paul
  
  Donovan Arnold wrote:  Chas,
    
  So if I use Yahoo Search instead of Googling, am I Yahooing?
    
  I agree that if telephone and television are lowercase, so should  Internet. 
    
  Best,
    
  _DJA
    
    Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:      On 7/10/06, Donovan Arnold  wrote:
      
  > OK, so does Googling mean, only using "Google"? Can you Google on  Yahoo, or
  > Google by Mr. Jeeves, or does Googling, strictly mean using Google?
      
  I wouldn't use the word "Googling" to refer to searches performed on
  other services, but I believe that the usage, if it persists, will
  eventually encompass all competing services, if that hasn't already
  started to happen.
      
  > And another question, can Internet be spelled with a little "i"?  Some one
  > needs to write an official rules of the Internet book.
      
  I find "internet" ugly, but www.wired.com specifies the small "i" in
  their style book. Logically, I suppose that small "i" makes sense, as
  we don't refer to to "Telephone" and "Television."
      
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