gnimmel (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gnimmel) wrote,@ 2007-03-05 08:31:00 |
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The Internet is for meta-analysis
As any fule kno, the internet is for porn. This fact has stood, like some whacking great monument of truth, in the back of the collective consciousness of the world since the webternet began. And then -- alas! -- it was held up the the harsh light of Science and fell over ungracefully into the mud. For a while the webternet was without form and meaning. Then, gradually, it began to pick up a new identity; here and there, now and then I would see people imputing that these days the internet is for cat pictures.
This set me to thinking: surely the webternet is for many things? Should we deny the validity of Harry Potter/Chalet School crossover fanfic merely because it is neither porn nor depicts cats? And, with the aid of Science[1], I have therefore prepared a Venn diagram of the interwebs which should sort the whole problem out.
[1] Science sat on my shoulder and implored me not to do it, but hey.
ETA: version with more readable, less voluptuous font here
As any fule kno, the internet is for porn. This fact has stood, like some whacking great monument of truth, in the back of the collective consciousness of the world since the webternet began. And then -- alas! -- it was held up the the harsh light of Science and fell over ungracefully into the mud. For a while the webternet was without form and meaning. Then, gradually, it began to pick up a new identity; here and there, now and then I would see people imputing that these days the internet is for cat pictures.
This set me to thinking: surely the webternet is for many things? Should we deny the validity of Harry Potter/Chalet School crossover fanfic merely because it is neither porn nor depicts cats? And, with the aid of Science[1], I have therefore prepared a Venn diagram of the interwebs which should sort the whole problem out.
[1] Science sat on my shoulder and implored me not to do it, but hey.
ETA: version with more readable, less voluptuous font here
