Second post from the ODK Discussion Series. This one is very entertaining! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil Hendrick <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 10:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Discussion Series: Implementing ODK 2.0 To: ODK Community <[email protected]>
ODeeKers, Early on, when the internet came to your house on an AOL CD through snail mail, when the Spam Wars raged in every inbox, when dragging your 11 pound laptop into a Guatemalan cyber cafe and asking to plug a Cat5 cable into the network hub was both bizarre and obscene, I tried to change the nomenclature of the day. You may recall in the mid 90s, that no one quite knew what to call this thing. Luddite news anchors would snark through reports of new software, websites, scams and schemes of the nascent network now ubiquitously called "The Internet". They called it "The Web, The Net, The InterWeb, The World Wide Web, the WebNet" and many other abbreviations and portmanteaus. As an early adopter, I thought it would be great to have a cool way to talk about sending a message over the WebNet, and I didn't like the word "E-mail". So, I started asking people to "Zap me with a Zoltar"... Read more at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opendatakit/wYxcJ9XPR3M _______________________________________________ change mailing list [email protected] http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change
