10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD "; 20 GOTO 10 Bruce Mason wrote:
D.Slater@lse.ac.uk 11/02/04 11:54 AM >>>
Hello thread - <snip> But on a different note, I'm intrigued by the greeting that Don has used "Hello thread." One of the aspects on online communication I'm fascinated by (and this is pertinent) is the way in which we implicitly characterise the various media through speech behaviour. I've not come across "Hello thread" so I'm wondering if it has a history and also what it may imply (if anything) for the spatiality of 'threads'. Indeed I wonder if 'thread' as a concept exists for younger wired (in the broadest term) users.
Well, I'm constantly amazed that many of my students, who I now suddenly realize are not just a couple of years but a decade younger than me (what happened?), know little more about the Internet than IM, e-mail, and have rather limited experience in surfing the web. They don't know Usenet, associate mailinglists with spam, and visit web-based forums that don't do threading. Of course, it doesn't help that there isn't a good Dutch translation for the word "thread". Frank. -- Barst [NL] http://fragment.nl/barst/ Fragments [EN] http://fragment.nl/