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Interweb (sometimes intarweb(s)) is a sarcastic term used to indicate inexperience by intentionally and incorrectly merging the terms 'Internet' and 'World Wide Web'. The joke is that many inexperienced users access content on the World Wide Web (or "Web") via the "Internet" without knowing what either is. ^[1] Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Sarcasm is the sneering, sly, jesting, or mocking of a person, situation or thing. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ...

The term interweb originated as the hacker culture response to the ever-increasing influx of inexperienced users to the Internet's forums and chat rooms. Whereas the Internet had previously been the exclusive domain of the tech-savvy, it was now attracting millions of newcomers (newbies) who were now participating in it (often with poor netiquette). Referring to the Internet as the interweb mocks the inexperience and ignorance of these newcomers, whose lack of understanding of the workings of the 'net would often amuse or annoy the more experienced. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as quotes and spoiler brackets A page from a forum showcasing emoticons and Internet slang An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. ... A chat room or chatroom is a term used primarily by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing. ... “Newcomer” redirects here. ... Netiquette, a portmanteau of network etiquette, is the convention on electronic forums (Usenet, mailing lists, live chat, and Internet forums) to facilitate efficient interaction. ...

Usage history

Writers of the television show Babylon 5 referred to "the interweb" in a 1994 episode titled "Eyes." Satirical use of the term caught on in discussion groups related to the show and subsequently spread. Actual erroneous use of the term appears to have been rare; it referred instead to several internet service providers and other business ventures during the dot-com boom. It entered wider usage following its use on The Simpsons episode "The Bart Wants What it Wants" in 2002.^[1] Several other instances of the term's use in popular media include: Babylon 5 is an epic American science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... “ISP” redirects here. ... Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... The Bart Wants What it Wants is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons thirteenth season. ...

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• Since 2007, Nestle Shreddies cereals say that 'Shreddies are knitted by Nanas' and on the box it says 'We're on the interweb'
• In the 1997 PC game Fallout the player can waste time "surfing the interweb" when accessing Vault 13's computer network.
• The comedy group Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie also used the phrase in their sketch "Keep your parents off the internet". The anti-hero of the story is trying to persuade his computer-illiterate father not to go online, to which the latter responds: "Your old man is going to be on the interweb!"
• Canadian comic actor and writer Brent Butt promotes his CTV television sitcom, Corner Gas, at the conclusion of Season 1 (2004) episodes by stating, "We're on the Interweb at cornergas.com".
• During her tenure at Saturday Night Live the comedian Ana Gasteyer played in a sketch depicting an infomercial spokeswoman who sells her dolls on TV as opposed to the "interweb".
• In the BBC program Top Gear, two of the presenters use this word frequently when mentioning their website. Similarly, the pair further the sentiment by referring to the iPod as "eep-podd".
• The word even made it into a legitimate commercial for American communications company Verizon's DSL service, in which an elderly man asked his grandson, "Are we on the interweb?" while watching a video clip on a laptop computer.
• Stephen Colbert routinely refers to the interweb on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report . Colbert has also employed the plural "Internets", which is itself an infamous Bushism.^[2]
• Webcomic author Jeff Rowland frequently makes references to the interweb in his comic strip Overcompensating.
• Season 2 episodes 8 and 20 of House had Hugh Laurie's character, Gregory House sarcastically using the phrase.
• The phrase "interweb" is also used ironically in the song "Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too" by the band Say Anything with the quote "I'd be chatting on the interweb."
• In the Campchaos.com parody cartoon "Napster Bad: Metallicops", the term "Interweb" is used by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
• Leo Laporte, former host of TechTV's The Screen Savers used the phrase often on the air.
• In The Venture Bros., in the episode titled "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean", Dean uses the word "interweb" at the end.
• The game developing company Bungie Studios uses the term "interwebs" frequently in their "Weekly Updates" while addressing rumors about their upcoming game titles.
• BT Ireland own a trademark on the term Interweb for use for "communications services".^[3]
• The South African comedy duo, Corne and Twakkie in their live performances and on their television shows (both called "The Most Amazing Show") often use the term "interweb." They often invite viewers to "write for us on the interweb" which is also written in the credits. On their website they say "Hi special guys, ladies and ladyguys and welcome to our very own incredible and amazing Most Amazing Show InterWebsite. Yes, that’s totally flippen right this is the amazing cyber-home of your most favourite , famous guys – us." The website also has "Interweb Lienks".^[4]
• On the show Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Keith Olbermann repeatedly (ironically) refers to the internet as the "interweb" or the "internets," and often refers to Google as "the Google" (a Bushism, like "internets").
• During the 2007 Masters Tournament coverage on the BBC, a BBC commentator advertised an extra live feed that would be available as "bonus coverage on the Interweb."
• In episode 20, "Cleveland," of the TV show 30 Rock, actor Tracy Morgan tells fellow actor Tina Fey about the "Interweb." Morgan's first mention of the "Interweb," however, occurred in episode 6, "Jack Meets Dennis."
• Podge and Rodge on The Podge and Rodge Show regularly refer to the interweb as a source of research for various dubious subjects.
• In Episode 13 of Neurotically Yours, with Foamy the Squirrel, Foamy reads a letter that says an internet user manges to see the cartoons "through the 'interweb,' via satellite, through my cell phone, delivered by account," as the letter says.
• In the Christopher Guest film For Your Consideration, John Michael Higgins plays a clueless studio PR executive who cheerfully informs associates about Oscar rumors surrounding the film Home For Purim that he discovered on the "World Wide Interweb."
• In the series Ask a Ninja, the main actor often refers the internet as "the interweb". For example : " i can't do this, not even on the interweb?"
• On xkcd, a chart is shown displaying numerous terms that mock the internet, one of which is interweb. [3]

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See also

• Information highway
• Internet
• Internets (colloquialism)
• Internet slang
• leet
• Lolcat
• Series of tubes
• Tinternet
• World Wide Web

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