Wiki.

[Tony the Toad]

Ribbit.

Hadn't realised I'd become addicted to it until today...

Ribbit ribbit.

[jimcee]

As an ordinary non-savvy member of the human race who is not into all this app's business , could someone who is conversant with all the current jargon please tell me what the significance of this previous posting is all about.
If it refers to Wikipedia (which is one of the positive developments of this computer caper) then I cannot see what the respondent has to complain about.
An excellent source of information available at the touch of a button (or the click of a mouse) which must have put the Encyclopaedia Britannica's nose out of joint - not to also mention a loss of revenue - if your correspondant has become addicted to a source of information, then he/she will be a lot wiser.
If it doesn,t refer to Wikipaedia then what is all this ribbit business about?

[Tony the Toad]

The point being that on Jan 18th, Wikipedia underwent a self-enforced 24-hour blackout in protest at SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act).
You don't miss your water until your pond runs dry.

[jimcee]

Obviously there is more to this than meets the eye (or responds to internet searches), but I would thought that a 24 hour outage of a website, was small beer compared to the total lack of electricity which we suffered for far longer recently.

[Pimpa Nell]

Obviously there is more to this than meets the eye (or responds to internet searches), but I would thought that a 24 hour outage of a website, was small beer compared to the total lack of electricity which we suffered for far longer recently.

Eh?? What on earth has that got to do with T-the-Ts post. At the bottom of the pond he probably wouldn't have known he lights were out anyway.

[khartoumteddy]

Generally it appears that the American Entertainment ? if thats the word industry
feels that they are losing revenue so as a result those with excess money are trying to get their noses deeper in the trough; to the cynic it may appear that as this is the source of
many political bribes it is being taken seriously by politicians, and very few others.

[jimcee]

I am getting lost in the intracies of this plot -If KT's assertion above (sorry I don't know how to do this highlighting thingy). that it is politicians who are behind all the interest in this SOPA business, could it be that T theT is the pseudonym for our recently elected neighbouring island MSP - and trying to make a name for himself at Holyrood, like another who instigated the official tartan bill