The Internet FAQ from 2085

What was the internet?

The internet and the world web was a computing system to transfer human information. Scientists have based its beginning to the years 1920 to 1940.

What was electromail?

Electromail was another transport protocol to transfer human information, but it was quickly discontinued as it caused misunderstandings due to lack of correctly representing emotions.

What were world web sites?

A so-called world web site consisted of an address of its owner to locate their physical business location, as well as other miscellaneous transmitting of human information that was considered important at the time. The protocol used to decode the information was called hypertext, and as its standards changed quickly over the years, it is impossible to decode most of the information contained within.

I noticed the word “NSFW” in a world web sites museum displaying hypertext reproductions. What does it mean?

Scientific research at the late Mars Research Laboratory came to the conclusion that NSFW announced the display of a widely popular human called Britneyspears in the 1970s. Why warnings were issued before the viewing of this human is unclear.

Did the world web have version numbers?

Yes. In the beginning, the world web was numbered from 1 to 10, with most people considering world web 8 to be the first stable release. Afterwards, the world web received code names for each new version, like “Omega Sun” or the popular “Happy Happy Rabbit" release.

A picture showing the internet. It is unclear what it depicts.

Who controlled the internet?

The internet was controlled by the governments, then for a brief period by personal humans all over the world, and then again by the governments. The intermittent period of personal human control was subsequently named the internet dark age as it incited to unlawful behavior.

What alternative information transfer technologies accompanied the internet?

The internet was only one of many transfer technologies. Equally popular at the time were the Ipod, also called Phone, a device to record and emit copies of the human voice, as well as the so-called Pongmachine which showed an animated bright shape on a dark background.

What was the Googlecom?

The Googlecom was a government-supervised computerized mechanism for human information storage and retrieval. It subsequently became integrated into the Universal Intelligence in around 2035.

Did the internet help the birth of the Universal Intelligence?

It is believed that the internet was an important mechanism to copy, spread and advance the ancestor of the Universal Intelligence. While the human civilization host system was unstable, progress was quickly reached after the invention of self-developing computerized intelligence machinery.

What was the Worldthought, the Netlink, and the Civilitron?

This FAQ only deals with planet number 5010; for the early computing systems of other planets, please refer to FAQs number 1 - 10000.

How long did humans take to invent the internet?

Scientific research believes that humans took around 150,000 years to build the internet and the world web as well as electromail. To explain the delay, it is believed that a human brain needed around 20 seconds to calculate an expression like 12 * 390, whereas it was incapable of calculating expressions like 12 * 3903829. Other inhabitants of the planet such as Bonobo Apes or the Arrowtooth Eel are believed to have had higher brain capacities, but no intent to build the internet.

Which entities were most popular on the internet?

While early hypertext storage can only be vaguely decoded, scientific research believes that from 1970 to 1999, the most popular entity on the internet was Britneyspears; from 2000 to 2020, it was Pleaseclickhere; from 2021 to 2030, it was the Mechabot100 release.

When did the internet end?

The internet ended with the end of planet number 5010, which is widely attributed to the fact that humans were using transportation facilities called autocars which only used around 1/5th of their transportation storage capacity, causing the planet to overheat. Copies of the internet are available in other systems though so you can read the archive at anytime.

I am interested to find out more about humans, where can I see them?

You can find representative entities of the human species in most local zoos. Visitors of model version 4.55 and lower receive special discounts; while the brain of humans is likely incapable of experiencing pain, please do not feed or break them.

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People Waiting for GTA IV at the Midnight of the Launch

In Addition to the last post, Check out these images: People Waiting in a line for Buying GTA IV and Liberty City Police Department were busy arresting people, at the midnight of the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV.

'GTA IV' Registers Biggest Day in US Entertainment History with $310 Million in Sales

'Grand Theft Auto IV' broke the all-time records for single-day and one-week entertainment industry sales – including video games, cinema, music and literature.

On Last Wednesday (7th May), Take-Two Interactive, which owns GTA IV developer Rockstar Games, announced that the new game had raked in all-time records of $310 million on its launch day of April 29 and $500 million during its first week.

The previous record was J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows', the final book in that cash-cow series, which when it launched last July, earned $220 million in its first 24 hours.

The best video game launches had far outdone those by the best films. ('Spider-Man 3' has a record of the biggest Opening Weekend by $151 Millions in sales.)


Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two said, "We knew Grand Theft Auto IV would break new ground in terms of the player's experience, with its compelling story line, extraordinary gameplay and action that ranges over a broad urban canvas."

"Now, it has broken sales and rating records as well. Grand Theft Auto IV's first week performance represents the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment, and we believe these retail sales levels surpass any movie or music launch to date. We congratulate the entire Rockstar team on creating a must-have experience that takes the legendary Grand Theft Auto franchise to a new level," he added.


GTA's single-day sales shattered the previous record for a video game, set last September by 'Halo 3', of $170 million. And given how quickly 'Halo 3' was reduced to second place, it stands to reason that even this record could be in danger from some another game already in the pipeline.

Among the games that are set to be released in the next few months that seem like potential contenders: Electronic Arts' 'Spore', Blizzard Entertainment's 'StarCraft II', Konami's 'Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots', EA's 2009 version of 'Madden football', LucasArts' 'Star Wars: The Force Unleashed', Activision's next 'Guitar Hero' offering, Harmonix's next 'Rock Band' version and Nintendo's 'Wii Fit'.

And since we're talking the entire entertainment industry, there's also the small matter of the forthcoming 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' from Paramount and LucasFilm.


But according to several industry experts contacted for this story, none of those titles seems likely to score the kind of cash in a single day or single week that GTA IV did. So while one of those games, or possibly another one not listed might some day best GTA IV in total sales, it seems that its short-term sales records are safe for the foreseeable future.

So, it could be a long time before anyone bests the record-shattering sales achieved by GTA IV.

I would like to add here that, for the last couple of months, EA had been trying to buy Take-Two Interactive, which has a record-breaking hit on its hands. And EA isn't pocketing the cash!

Plastic bag conquers Google Street View

A block of College Road in Fairbanks, Alaska, along with portions of Minnie St. and Third St. show what a driver would see only if wearing a plastic bag on his or her head.



As Google Sightseeing observes, you can tell what it is by the fact that it says "plastic bag" on the inside.

Privacy advocates should take note of an effective way to avert the prying eyes of Google Street View: the lowly plastic bag.

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Dilbert goes web 2.0

How does a comic strip upgrade to Web 2.0?

The answer may well be the direction that Dilbert creator Scott Adams and his distributor, United Media, have chosen with a relaunch of the iconic strip's Web site, Dilbert.com.

Adams and United Media are now inviting Dilbert fans to the site for a series of new interactive features. The most interesting of these is a three-pronged approach to what is being called "mashups": giving readers the ability to create their own versions of Dilbert strips.

There are three ways this works. The first, known as "punch line," will allow readers to write their own ending to an original Dilbert comic, adding new words to the drawing for the last frame of the strip.



A second feature coming in May will allow readers to add their own words to an entire strip. So, they'll be presented with a fully drawn Dilbert comic, but will be tasked with writing the dialogue.

And also coming in May, will be a feature which will allow fans to write the dialogue for a single panel of a Dilbert strip and then share it with others, who will then write for the remaining panels. Adams himself is expected to randomly write dialogue for strips.

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So?? Do you think you are funnier than Scott Adams? ..