Sweet in Babylon 5
Sep. 27th, 2007 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack* I've been watching the B5 box set. It's sweet. I didn't notice this in 94, but on Babylon 5 they actually refer to "searching the interweb". I think I enjoy watching it again more in some ways, because of things like this, that as a teenager I thought were stupid, but now I think are well done :)
* And they also use "Intrusion countermeasures electronic", or ICE for computer security. I *did* read Neuromancer iirc, but I don't remember much of it, I assumed this was a later backronym when I heard it on B5, but I looked it up, and "ice" was that acronym when it was invented in cyberpunk.
* It's funny, the term used in cyberpunk is actually *less* technical than what people say elsewhere, because it supports the idea of "just throw a bit more icebreaker at it, it'll be ok". Was cyberpunk was about what was possible, not how? Maybe that approach to hacking is becoming true, as more and more things are pre-automated.
* Which leads indirectly back to "interweb". Sometimes a less accurate term is actually the more accurate one to use, when the concept it's referring to isn't accurate (like only using the correct number of significant figures, not more). Excluding jokes, "interweb" is execrable to use if you mean "internet" or "w w web". But if you don't know which you mean, isn't it then the exactly correct word? :)
* And they also use "Intrusion countermeasures electronic", or ICE for computer security. I *did* read Neuromancer iirc, but I don't remember much of it, I assumed this was a later backronym when I heard it on B5, but I looked it up, and "ice" was that acronym when it was invented in cyberpunk.
* It's funny, the term used in cyberpunk is actually *less* technical than what people say elsewhere, because it supports the idea of "just throw a bit more icebreaker at it, it'll be ok". Was cyberpunk was about what was possible, not how? Maybe that approach to hacking is becoming true, as more and more things are pre-automated.
* Which leads indirectly back to "interweb". Sometimes a less accurate term is actually the more accurate one to use, when the concept it's referring to isn't accurate (like only using the correct number of significant figures, not more). Excluding jokes, "interweb" is execrable to use if you mean "internet" or "w w web". But if you don't know which you mean, isn't it then the exactly correct word? :)