Different name for the internet?

[Saul]

Today everyone calls it the Web or the Internet...

How bout calling it just Tennis?

[Lethevich]

The real name is the Intertubes, or the crude might suggest Interbutts but I am above that.

[Saul]

The real name is the Intertubes, or the crude might suggest Interbutts but I am above that.

Why.. that sounds almost like an interlude...

[Philoctetes]

"10,000-dimensional web in heaven and net on earth", from a loose Chinese translation.

[Saul]

"10,000-dimensional web in heaven and net on earth", from a loose Chinese translation.

This is Webby...

[DavidW]

The interblarg.

[DavidW]

Oh here is the xkcd comic--

[Saul]

I bet Blagojevich had something to do with the confusion...

[Todd]

Arpanet.

[Saul]

Arpanet.

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network...
For a second I thought you said Armpits.

[MN Dave]

Thunderdome

[drogulus]

Arpanet.

     

     Actor Michael Caine plays the cockney spy Harry Palmer in the
     1967 movie "Billion Dollar Brain." A Honeywell computer, like one
     that the UCLA team used to connect to ARPANET, is the basis of
     a huge film set at Pinewood Studios.

[KevinP]

All I know is that I refuse to capitalise 'internet.' It's not a proper noun.

[Opus106]

All I know is that I refuse to capitalise 'internet.' It's not a proper noun.

The largest internet is given a name: Internet. It's like the surname used by certain humans which is derived from their ancestors' profession many centuries ago.