What thinkest thou?
By "Internet" I am referring to the culture(s?) that has(ve) spawned on it. In other words, not the facebook people. The 4channers, nerds, stumblers, youtubers, tweeters, bloggers, wikipedia-article writers, the people who check knowyourmeme.com every day, etc.

There is obviously no government, or geographical location (unless you count Earth), but those constitute a country, not a nation.

If the above paragraphs are too confusing, I'll edit them to make them less so.
Anyways: I came across this thought while reading the Nyan Cat comments a few days ago, which suggested it be the national anthem of the Internet.

Nationalism was bad enough in the late 19th-20th C.

nationalism? What has this to do with the topic?

Nations are social constructs of nationalism and....

....read Benedict Anderson. I can't regurgitate him here.

The internet isn't a nation anymore than humans in general are a nation. Internet users really don't have much more in common than the fact that they use the internet.

Dictionary definitions:
Nation - A large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
Country - A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.

Since the internet isn't united, I don't think you can call the internet as a nation, but the various subculture sites, you probably can. Like how we say "Colbert Nation".

Most definitly true, but we still need a national anthem, or perhaps hmm:


Ja, ve should have an array or list of songs. Which one would ye all dot add to it.

You can add a classes attribute to the code tag to make various C# classes appear in teal as in VS.

e.g. classes="Song List Double"

Also, initializing a list capacity to infinity is probably a Bad Idea.

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I'm afraid I don't know my way around these particular languages, but, unless it's been said before, I would say the national anthem would be the latest major melodical meme, par example Nyan Cat, or Never gonna let you down in 2008. Or double rainbow.

Thanks, I'll will try that some time.

I know it would be bad idea. I'd never actually do that unless I had that machine that I saw in one of Dewdney's books that showed elements getting infinity smaller and still being in a finite space. That would be in the bacon shaped into a T-Rex with Abe Lincoln on it level of epic. mmmm bacon

Internet can not be a nation because in it people only share their views ,give suggestion from a distance but for building a nation you need to be together .

It seems what you are trying to set up would be better accomplished by dividing each group into a seperate nation, rather than a nation with many subcultures. That way people who fall into multiple categories would simply be well traveled. If that's what you were already saying, I apologize.

*takes up residance in TwoCans nation*

And Blake, could you make the song list in a MySQL database and post it so other sites can access it? If the entire Internet is going to follow this list, it should be more public. I guess it doesn't HAVE to be a MySQL database, so long as it's easily accessable.

I'd link my sites to it and set it to play a random track from the list as the background music!