Author Studs Terkel just had a birthday today and has made it to 95 – which is a long to be anyone, much less Studs Terkel, so good on him. There’s an interview of him on various subjects here; what I found particularly amusing was his take on current technology:
I’m a Rip Van Winkle guy. I don’t know what the Internet is. What a website is. What a blog is. “Blog,” to me, is the Flintstones. You know, Neanderthal. Blog. Or someone who’s talkin’ in tongues. Website reminds me of Robert the Bruce, the leader of the Scots. In one of the wars against the British, for independence, the troops are chasing him. He runs into a cave, and he sees a spider, making a web. And he maneuvers himself behind the spider and the web covers him, and the British troops can’t find anybody there, except spider webs. So he survives, and makes it.
That’s what the word website means. I don’t know anything about these new words.
I think I like his definition better.
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