Now, they want to change Internet to Equinet

The tendency to rename existing things, seems to be a human frailty in general, and Indian in particular.  The Hindu reports India will question the US hegemony of the WWW at a global meet on Internet governance in Sao Paulo (Brazil) next week, termed NETmundial. India proposes to rename the Internet as ‘Equinet’.

As if India in particular, and the world in general, do not have anything more important to do.  But even mad guy like me would think that ‘In’ternet sounds more India, than ‘Equi’net, which sounds Greek, and Indians - mad or otherwise - would push for status quo at NETmundial.
:-P

Changing something just for the heck of it, and justifying it as based on some reason, logic, explanation or pure sentiment seems to be an age old affliction of the humans.  Lately it seems to be getting out of hand.

• The Greeks and the Romans could not agree on common names for their Gods, and when the Grecian Zeus crossed the Mediterranean, he became Jupiter (or Jove), as so did Hera who became Juno.  By Jove!
• India has multitude of names in different languages; from Hind in Arabic, to Hindistan in Turkish, I’Inde in French, Yin du in Chinese and Tenjiku in Japanese.  Tenjiku translates to ‘the heavenly centre of the world’.  Good Heavens!
• Soon after independence, in practically every Indian city, an arterial road was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Road.  Hell of a trip!
• Not content with it and spurred on by public opinion/sentiment, they started to rename entire buildings.  Thus the Victoria Terminus of Bombay became Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus of Mumbai.  God save the Queen!
• They even changed the name of movies - the Bond film From Russia with Love could only be released in India as ‘From 007 with Love’.  Good Show!
• Then they started to rename entire cities - Bombay became Mumbai, Madras became Chennai, Calcutta became Kolkata, Trivandrum became Thiruvananthapuram, etc. Capital!
• Not content with that, they went after the Planets too!  Pluto’s status was changed from that of a Planet into a ‘dwarf planet’, on the discovery of a similar sized dwarf Planet, which was initially named ‘Xena’.  Then in keeping with the spirit, they changed its name to ‘Eris’.  Holy Smokes!
• In 2012, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) proposed to abolish  the leap seconds and change the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).  Wait a minute!
• Now, they want to rename the Internet as Equinet.  What a catch!

I thought only Calvin and Hobbes had such brainwaves, and Hobbes says exactly what I think of it.

IceRocket Tags: Equinet,NETmundial

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