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November 30, 2005
Renaming the Internet
By Tom LaSusa

Back in our October 13th, 2005 edition of the Last Mile, we asked those twisted and disturbed individuals we affectionately call our readers (also known as "you") to offer up their most creative ideas for a new name for the Internet. That's right. The World Wide Web. Cyberspace. The thing you're on right now.

One or two submissions had to be chucked out (Hey, we try not to work too blue here). Alot of you seem to remember a Mister Al Gore claiming responsibility for creating the Internet (Poor Al). And some of you are just plain, well...wierd.

We did manage to select a winner. You can find the Internet's new name in our December 8th edition of Last Mile. For now, however -- enjoy all the submissions that were fit to print.

marvin duran renames the internet:
that big whole in the workday.

Kay G Hopwood
renames the internet: gorewishes


J. Hicks
renames the internet: Dystopia


Debbie Ojala
renames the internet:


  • Infoweb
  • Cybernet
  • The Hive


Dante Papini
renames the internet: Iffynet: Can you really be sure its going to work when you need it
to?


Councilman Herbert L. Riede
renames the internet: The Albert A. Gore, Jr. Memorial Information Superhighway
(or "Gore MIS" for short)


Philip Miller
renames the internet: Wally World, because "I suspect that one day Walmart will acquire the Internet and rename it
Walnet, but most people will refer to it as Wally World."


Cheryl Finnegan
renames the internet: Babble-on


Peter Brown
renames the internet:


  • hal
  • bigstream
  • bitway


Chris Powers
renames the internet: WhatWhereWhen - answers the question what does the WWW in url's
stand for and has a street-slangy ring to it: "I was honkin' on the
WhatWhereWhen last night and I found this def fly site"


GEORGE JACOB
renames the internet: peeknpoke


Tony Brown
renames the internet: algornet


Dave Johnson
renames the internet: The electron inconviencing, digital data transmission, energy
consuming, headache enducing, heat generating, spam/virus/information
delivery system utilizing multi-million processor technology.


Bruce Saunders
renames the internet: GoreNet - after all he did invent it!


Robert LaBree
renames the internet: The 64.233.161.99th Gate


Jim Slate
renames the internet:


  • Sinternet
  • EverythingNastyAndImmoral


Ronald B. Rogers
renames the internet: IIIS or Instant Information In Seconds



Basil Akers
renames the internet: beambag


LARRY DICOLA
renames the internet:


  • spacebitsofplenty.com
  • algoreboulevard.com
  • alphaomegaknowallnet


Breedveld
renames the internet: Ulinkmeilinku.com


Basil Akers
renames the internet:


  • bigrockcandybountynet.com
  • Sweetnetitis.com


brett turek
renames the internet: knowledge base o' life.



Douglas Rockney
renames the internet: Algoreland


Tony West
renames the internet:


  • Wild Wild Web - Then the www still makes sense.
  • Webtopia - That place where all your dreams come true.
  • Cisconet - Who really runs the Internet anyway.


Jack Hefner
renames the internet: Filomena


Jack Hefner
renames the internet: Misanthrope


Greg Senko
renames the internet: Infernalnet


Steven Matheson
renames the internet:


  • HyperCompuMegaNet (apologies to The Simpsons)
  • Microsoft Global Connector (we don't own everything, but we act like we
    do!)
  • Porn-o-rama.


David Ski
renames the internet:


  • n-mart
  • inet.pod



Dan Bishop
renames the internet: TheNet. replace WWW with WOW (Wide Open
World)


Bart Greene
renames the internet: Virtual Planet


Kevin Standland
renames the internet: No_One_is_Home_Anymore


Anthony Sanchez
renames the internet: OOPS (Online Other People's Stuff)


Mahesh Sisodiya
renames the internet: An Al Gore Creation !


John Foster
renames the internet: INTERNET, the acronym:

I

Never

Thought

Every

Reply

Now

Ends

THERE.



D. Jeremy Harrington
renames the internet: The Swap Meet -- Some good stuff, mostly junk.


Benny A
renames the internet: Junkstation


G Goforth
renames the internet: Internet Explorer Makeover: The Recycle Bin Edition


Lonni Erickson
renames the internet: Skynet (as in Terminator)


Dwight Booth
renames the internet: Google-Mart


Brian Welch
renames the internet: Dilbertlandville


Ken Crist
renames the internet: Wild World Web


Mike DePhillip
renames the internet: Porno Portal


J. Mark Rodgers
renames the internet: Highway of Dreams


Ed Palmateer
renames the internet: Interknot


Nick Nielsen
renames the internet: Googleplex

-- Posted at 05:07 PM in Techno-Oddities





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