{"id":6148,"date":"2012-01-20T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=6148"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:38:43","slug":"the-internet-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=6148","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time one of my daughters said “internet,” I was deeply curious about what she might understand it to be. So I asked. Here’s how it went down<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Did you get it on the internet?” <\/p>\n

“What do you mean?” <\/p>\n

Slight pause. <\/p>\n

“I’m just saying ‘internet.’ … Internet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was an awesome bit of backpedaling, but it’s not like Nico didn’t know what she was talking about. Surely I had told her many times before that I was getting some video or other “on the internet” (although this time I was just searching for an mp4 on our harddrive). <\/p>\n

Of course, defining “the internet” in plain terms is no simple task, even\/especially for experts — never mind elected officials (for whom even the proposal of a relatively reasonable metaphor, say a “series of tubes<\/a>,” can lead to eternal ridicule). <\/p>\n

Anyway, as tweeted<\/a>, we had occasion yesterday to revisit the exchange. This time both Nico and Charlie offered up awesome answers — with no evasions — and I even got it all on video!<\/p>\n

As we were getting back in our car after lunch at a local diner, Charlie asked me if I wanted to buy a newspaper. I told her I didn’t and then said something to the effect that I could read the same stories on my phone — that is, on the internet. At which point I had to ask, in a somewhat strange and serious and playful voice, “What. Is. The. Internet?” <\/p>\n

To which Nico replied, rather reasonably, if in her own strange voice (a “boy’s voice,” she tells us)–<\/p>\n

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I thought that was great, so I took out my internet<\/s> phone and asked her if we could re-run the Q&A for the camera. The kids love seeing themselves on video, so Nico agreed, and that’s what you see up there (with my question inadvertently truncated). <\/p>\n

After which, natch, Charlie needed a turn. At first it seemed like she was just going to rehearse the same exchange herself (complete with funny voice), but instead, operator-style, she threw a curveball. A hilarious curveball, especially after my follow-up — <\/p>\n

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The funniest thing is, they’re both kinda right. <\/p>\n

Ah, digital nativity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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