Wikipedia talk:The Internet is not Serious Business

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Some argue that it may, in fact, be very, VERY, serious business.

I work for a serious Internet business

"the Internet is not a job"

Unless you work for Amazon.com, eBay, or another firm that does business over the Internet. Then the Internet is your job, and it is serious business. I don't see what the author of this essay is trying to get at. --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 00:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You miss the point. The internet is not a concrete thing, and ANYTHING can happen to it. eBay could disappear with one bad electric shock at their main office. eBay may be real, per se, but it's only as real as the people who frequent it. Or the servers that run it. The point? You don't work for an internet business, you work for a business whose network is channeled through the internet, which in and of itself, isn't anything. Doing business "over the internet", and one's job being the internet are two very different things. Capisce? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.4.128 (talk) 01:12, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have a point there. But is the Internet a serious business to an employee of an ISP? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 02:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The original ran "Remember: you are not being payed [sic] to be anally retentive. Contrary to popular belief... THE INTERNET IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS". Point being that folks should just chill out. Oc t ane ^{[improve me]} 01.02.08 2019 (UTC)

Actually an internet site continues to exists when people don't visit it, unless it gets shut down. The internet is as real as you and me, it is not some spiritual cyberspace. In order for it to appear on our monitors it must be physical. No it's not concrete, but just because it isn't made of cement or something as thick, doesn't make it insignificant. Your description of a business being "channelled" through the internet could be used to describe it being channelled through a shop, which might be made of concrete. Or something equally as thick. As the internet is physical it needs people to build and maintain the internet, so their job would be the internet. And then there are the goldfarmers on multiplayer games....

-- HappenedToStumbleUpon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.135.253 (talk) 22:47, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Encyclopedia Dramatica said it best:

"The Internet is serious business":

A phrase used to remind those who voluntarily leave the house that being mocked on the Internets is, in fact, the end of the world. Common variations include, The Internet Is Serious Fucking Business, The Internet: Serious Business, Internet = Srs Business, SRS BIZNS and even just INTERNET!!. Plurals, The Internets Are Serious Businesses.