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No. Place is either a noun having to do with location, or a verb having to do with putting something somewhere (which gets back to location).
There is a tendency in these modern times to allow revisionist interpretations to mean whatever anybody wants. All opinions are not of equal value. Often wrong is just wrong, regardless of feelings.
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It really is that simple, but isn't nearly as glitzy as marketing "cyberspace" or "virtual reality" or whatever funky misleading over-hyped terms can be devised to make "sitting in front of my computer" seem way over-the-top cool.
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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective. "Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley |
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Oh, by the way, a bit off the beaten path, but... I once looked up whatchamacllit (I don't remember the actual spelling) because I had too much time on my hands some years ago. The entry said "See thingamajig". And, I am NOT kidding (the dictionary was an old college dictionary of some kind), the Thingamajig entry said "See Thingumajig"!
And then Thingumabob, thingumbob, back and forth, back and forth. Ha, ha! Somebody obviously slipped those entries in under the covers. ![]()
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I don't think of the internet as 'place' any more than I do power transmission lines. The power comes from 'place' (the plant) and goes to another 'place' (your home) but the lines themselves are just a 'thing'.
The internet is similar -- the web pages you view are stored in a place somewhere, and you view them at your place. In-between they are transmitted as data and aren't anyplace. So to me the internet is less of a place and more of a thing or an entity. You can't stay there any more than electrical power can 'stay' in a transmission line. That being said, if there were a way to live on the internet, or in it -- I think I would. I have a much easier time escaping the stupidity of my peers that way. =) |
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"She has a special place in my heart." Wouldn't the Internet similarly be a metaphorical "place"?
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Metaphorically speaking, of course.![]()
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