Transformation means coming into contact with unknown unknowns like when your snarky, ersatz-profound internet column summons up a lot of real anger that you didn't know about.
"People still have issues of food, clothing and shelter that are more profound than Internet access," she said.
This period coincided with what felt like a profound shift in internet mores.
People, especially web developers and designers, tend to have a profound dislike of Internet Explorer 6.
For the most part, the tech community, including web developers and designers, tend to have a profound dislike of Internet Explorer 6. Obviously, the browse has many issues, including low performance and major security flaws.
But other factors are contributing to the uncertainty, including the profound shift to the Internet as the driving force of personal computers and the emergence of Internet-based consumer appliances and wireless devices that are independent of Microsoft's monopoly on desktop PC's.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that has had a profound impact on the internet, outlines these protections.
It also reflects the profound degree to which Internet file-trading has managed to undermine the music business, Universal executives said.
The day before Mr Mundie's speech, it was reported that a potentially serious security flaw had been found in one of Windows 2000's server programs.Open source is not so much the ideological cause of anti-Microsoft hackers as a profound effect of the Internet, which means that it is here to stay.
And that's the most profound promise of the Internet.
The sense of national outrage and grief, being expressed in the outpouring on China's internet, is profound.
