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[[Title: Terms I have used or heard used to make fun of the internet.]]
[[Below: A matrix whose entries may contain crosses to indicate that a term has been used. The rows (prefixes) are labelled WORLD WIDE, INTER-, BLOGO-, BLAGO- and WEB- ; the columns are labelled NET, WEB, SPHERE, TUBES and BLAG. In the interests of properly propagating the term "blagoblag", the full list of used terms follows:
World Wide Web
Internet
Interweb
Intersphere
Intertubes
Interblag
Blogosphere
Blagonet
Blagosphere
Blagoblag
Webnet
Webweb]]
[[Boy and Girl stand facing; Boy raises his hands in the air while Girl is nonplussed]]
Boy: I heard about it on the interblag!
{{Title text: Sometimes I hate the internet. Sometimes it makes me happy that 'The Tubes' has become slang for the internet so quickly.}}
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