When I first heard Vice President Biden's reference to website number, I thought for sure the Obama administration was going to earmark (bad choice of words, let's try) allocate funding towards Internet numbers or VoIP. Boy was I excited. I later figured out I was wrong. You see, he doesn't know that websites have addresses but thinks they have numbers. The fact that our political establishment is so out of touch with technology continues to blow my mind. How could these politicians not get emails that say check out this web address or URL? Staggering really.
Thankfully Obama and much of his staff seem to be deeply entrenched in the inner workings of tech, social networking and the web. Makes you kind of long for the days when the guy who invented the internet was VP doesn't it?
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Makes you kind of long for the days when the guy who invented the internet was VP doesn't it?
I take that as the old joke about Gore claiming to invent the internet (which of course was "invented" in the late '60's by the US Military, as the ARPANET.)
Richard - maybe Biden uses IP addresses as his URLs instead of names?
E.g. http://209.191.93.52/ instead of www.yahoo.com
:-) You never know :-) LOL...
RG
>>maybe Biden uses IP addresses as his URLs instead of names
Good point. Maybe Biden memorized the entire DNS database and prefers IP addresses over long URLs.
Although IP addresses are constantly changing, new websites, etc. But Biden who I suspect is an alien from the Vega star system, has the ability to update the IP addresses in his brain instantly.
Explains his very high 'genius' IQ. BWAH HA HA!
Hi,
I find lots of people have flayed Mr.Biden for his associating numbers , rather than addresses,with websites.
For one thing, some long numbers are hidden behind these so called addresses.What is more, I have years ago visualised recognition of websites by short four digit numbers and obtained copyright too.Interested ones may visit my site www.websitenumber.com.(currently being revamped).I am at gomes17@gmail.com.
gomathinayagam,India