Comment on Internet Hole
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 7 months agoChinese normally come up with some ways to use old terms to describe new things.
First character means “net” (can also be fishing or spider net)
Second means “line, route” (also way, sequence)
Third means, well, “hole” (but also socket)
As a combination of first and second we have “net line” - the Internet, or really any interconnected net like a power grid. Third doesn’t need an explanation, I think.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Kind of interesting that both English and Chinese ended up describing the internet as a form of “net”
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Probably a calque of some sort.
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, it makes sense when you think about how it describes the same concept.