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04 Oct 2025
Some Interesting (aka GEEKY) Information
Some Interesting (aka GEEKY) Information
I wonder how to work these geeky facts into polite conversation.
When you access the internet, you open a browser (which first appeared as the acronym BROWSER for Browsing On-Line With Selective Retrieval) and begin to navigate around, otherwise known as surfing the internet.
A 1991 comic book “The Adventures of Captain Internet and CERF Boy” published by CERFnet, depicted a superhero who literally surfed around on a surfboard answering internet cries for help.
The word spam comes from an iconic 1970 Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch, wherein a horde of Viking cafe-goers repeatedly sing the menu item Spam, drowning out all other conversation.
Cache has been around since the turn of the 18th century as a hiding place for goods and treasures, from the French cacher meaning “to hide.” The word was first applied to computing in 1967 by IBM Systems Journal editor, Lyle R. Johnson. Apparently no one had any suggestions for a substitute for the clunky phrase “High Speed Buffer” so Johnson sat down with a thesaurus and came up with cache.
We’re humans after all, and the internet and World Wide Web are tools for expanding our human experience. While we stare at our phones and computer screens, it’s a nice reminder that the intention behind these technologies was to connect us together. After all, Tim Berners-Lee said the thing he’s most proud of about the World Wide Web is “the wonderful global collaborative spirit of all the people who turned up to help build it, and build things on it.”
Now go ahead, armed with all this "useless" yet geeky information, try to work it into your next conversation.
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