Friday, January 27, 2012

offline: Entry for Friday, January 27, 2012

offline

When your computer is connected to the Internet, you are online. When you disconnect from the Internet, you are offline.

People who don’t understand this often say of things they get from the Internet that they downloaded them “offline,” evidently thinking that the word means “off of the Internet.” Nothing can be uploaded or downloaded to a site when you are offline.

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