Ted Stevens’ speech comparing the internet to tubes and trucks ranks somewhere up there with Al Gore talking about how he created the internet. Here’s an excerpt from my chatlogs:
R.B.: what’s up with your aim?
R.B.: you’re invisible
N: it keeps logging me off
N: I think that I need to call comcast
N: so they can take some rotor rooter to the tubes
N: the messages are getting clogged in the internets again
Here is what a friend IMed me after I asked something to the effect of “if the internet really is like Ted Stevens described it, what does bittorrent look like?”
R: Bittorrent is like plinko
R: P2P is badminton
R: IM’s are like cups on a string
R: FTP is a truck, a big truck
R: Google is the Draino
R: and microsoft is like the racist southerners
R.B.: ?
R: I don’t know, I am making this stuff up
R: and microsoft want you to stay microsoft, and hates all others
Um, BitTorrent is an application of P2P networks.