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[OldManDeath]

I have been seeing the "@" sign in front of peoples names/handles lately both on this blog and forum.

What does it mean?

[Chris Rossini]

@Ryan means:

"at" Ryan, or "in response to" something Ryan said.

[Chris Rossini]

I'd like to know what "FTW" means, if someone can enlighten me.

[OldManDeath]

I'd like to know what "FTW" means, if someone can enlighten me.

I can think of a few things an old sailor would say for that, but I am sure that it is not what it is being used for online. 

[El Guru (Al)]

The only thing remotely close would be 'For The Win' which is commonly used in gaming, especially MMORPGs.

However there are some other meanings which OldManDeath was eluding to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTW

[Nogg3r5]

The @ means at. Literally.

According to a book I read called Where Wizards Stay Up Late, about the making of the internet.

When the internet was young, people sent mail to the place where you worked, usually a uni. so my address would be nogg3r5@stamford. I think the .com . co.uk etc were added as the internet grew, they needed more than one stamford.

[OldManDeath]

The @ means at. Literally.

According to a book I read called Where Wizards Stay Up Late, about the making of the internet.

When the internet was young, people sent mail to the place where you worked, usually a uni. so my address would be nogg3r5@stamford. I think the .com . co.uk etc were added as the internet grew, they needed more than one stamford.

Yes, for the internet in dealing with addresses, it literally means "at".  However, like with many things today, the use of it is being expanded to mean other things in internet communications.

The internet started as the DARPAnet by the US government and was used solely for the US government and universities when working on projects together.  DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  They are at it again with the Internet 2, which is currently only for the sole use of Government and Universities.  It is a much faster internet that was started due to the amount of traffic of the current internet was limiting their communications and sharing of large amounts of data.

Will we, the common person be using the Internet 2?  I would think so in due time.

[Nogg3r5]

The @ means at. Literally.

According to a book I read called Where Wizards Stay Up Late, about the making of the internet.

When the internet was young, people sent mail to the place where you worked, usually a uni. so my address would be nogg3r5@stamford. I think the .com . co.uk etc were added as the internet grew, they needed more than one stamford.

Yes, for the internet in dealing with addresses, it literally means "at".  However, like with many things today, the use of it is being expanded to mean other things in internet communications.

The internet started as the DARPAnet by the US government and was used solely for the US government and universities when working on projects together.  DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  They are at it again with the Internet 2, which is currently only for the sole use of Government and Universities.  It is a much faster internet that was started due to the amount of traffic of the current internet was limiting their communications and sharing of large amounts of data.

Will we, the common person be using the Internet 2?  I would think so in due time.

Im guessing it will jsut kinda merge. The technologies being used on Inet2 will be adopted by service provders eventually

[OldManDeath]

The @ means at. Literally.

According to a book I read called Where Wizards Stay Up Late, about the making of the internet.

When the internet was young, people sent mail to the place where you worked, usually a uni. so my address would be nogg3r5@stamford. I think the .com . co.uk etc were added as the internet grew, they needed more than one stamford.

Yes, for the internet in dealing with addresses, it literally means "at".  However, like with many things today, the use of it is being expanded to mean other things in internet communications.

The internet started as the DARPAnet by the US government and was used solely for the US government and universities when working on projects together.  DARPA stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  They are at it again with the Internet 2, which is currently only for the sole use of Government and Universities.  It is a much faster internet that was started due to the amount of traffic of the current internet was limiting their communications and sharing of large amounts of data.

Will we, the common person be using the Internet 2?  I would think so in due time.

Im guessing it will jsut kinda merge. The technologies being used on Inet2 will be adopted by service provders eventually

I believe there is different hardware being utilized as well, so it may take more than just adopting.  I would think eventually everything would just switch over.

[Ryan Wagner]

Internet 2 rocks! We have it running through Iowa State University and I have gotten up to 10Mbps download and 8Mbps upload...on my laptop's wireless card. I can hardly get those speeds when I'm on my local network.

[Nogg3r5]

Internet 2 rocks! We have it running through Iowa State University and I have gotten up to 10Mbps download and 8Mbps upload...on my laptop's wireless card. I can hardly get those speeds when I'm on my local network.

Jebus. Im still stuck on 512kb (Or is that KB, I can never reemember)

[Ryan Wagner]

I'm guessing it is Kb which stands for kilobits, whereas KB stands for kilobytes. There are then 8 bits in a byte, so your download speeds look something like 64KB/s which is just 512/8. I'm not sure if you knew that conversion or not, but it helps a lot of people when I explain the difference between a bit and byte. 

[Nogg3r5]

Isnt Bit with the capital B?

[Ryan Wagner]

Nope, Byte has the capital B: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

and there is a slight difference between KB and kB as mentioned in that article, but I normally don't explain that.

[OldManDeath]

@Ryan - You are such a geek!   





Pssst, don't tell anyone, but I knew the differences too.