There is no place like 127.0.0.1 :) - errr....come again

Q : 'There is no place like 127.0.0.1 :)' ....errr...come again

Chances are that either you are a techie, and you exactly know what this statement mean, which means that you can totally understand how true it is. And there is also a chance that you are not-so-techie, you saw this statement and thought, 'uh huh, some other stupid, stinky, meaningless tech/mathematical gibberish - oh God! why don't we just keep the technology but get rid of the tech crowd.' In that case, let me explain the statement to you.

We all have heard and believed the phrase that 'There is no place like home.' In the tech world, what's your home ?....mmm....your PC. And in simple, plain English, 127.0.0.1 == your personal PC. For a more technical definition,

127.0.0.1 is a special Internet Protocol (IP) address that points to your own computer. It is also referred to as the local host or loopback address. Local host is sometimes commonly referred to as My computer.

So..now...you see...it wasn't such a meaningless gibberish :) There is definitely no place like my personal computer 127.0.0.1


Q : ...mmmmk...so did you really came up with this statement all by yourself ?

Good Question. Though I do like to think that I can come up much cooler statements, but still, I didn't came up with this one. It's quite a well known saying in the tech crowd. I saw it on a website selling T-Shirts for geeks, and there were some other shirts with statements like 'I failed the Turing test' or 'No, I won't fix your computer!' and yes it took some gigantic efforts on my part to not go ahead and place an order for each and every one of them....:S

Q : .Okay, whatever! I always knew you are a geek.

Nopes, I'm still not a geek! Here are my reasons,

1. I have never watched Star Trek (though I do have a feeling that I'll love it if I ever got to watch it :s)

2. I have no interests in Diana sours, animated or real, never even watched Jurassic Park!

3. I do not have any weird collection of comic characters

4.I never played the quiz 'The one super hero who could become your life partner.'

So...nopes...not a geek!