": Well... to answer your question, I was going to look the answer up ""online"" - that is to say, on the ""net"" - I mean of course the ""Internet"" - sometimes referred to as the ""Information Superhighway"" - y'know, on the ""World Wide Web"", which we usually call the ""Web""...  To be less tongue-in-cheek, it's pretty common to have several terms to refer to a thing.  Moreso when the thing is important, and even moreso when the most exact name is proscribed, or even just in polite company requires euphemisms to avoid profanity.  

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