Wed 12 Mar 2008
jinius of the week: stephen fry
Posted by thejinius under jinius of the week
Why he’s a jinius:
Stephen Fry’s column “Dork Talk” in The Guardian is a humorous and insightful look at technology and the interweb.
Ever wonder what was the difference between Web 1.0 and 2.0? Don’t know if you should use Firefox or Explorer? Don’t care? You should still read his column. He’s hi-larious.
A snippet:
Much ink, electronic and atomic, has been expended on the subject of social networking and web 2.0. First, let’s decide on how this last is pronounced. “Web two” won’t do. “Web two point oh” is common, but I heard it as “web two dot oh” from the lips of Sir Tim Berners-Lee OM himself and since he is the only begetter of the web, I shall take my lead from him, the most influential Briton since… well, he has no rivals. Brian Blessed, perhaps.

March 12th, 2008 at 9:43 am
“two dot oh” sounds very british.