PSA - The Internet really is a series of tubes

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: jpbelauskas

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Finally. It looks like we've gotten the mindset that the internet is a big truck out of people's heads.

i kinda liked the thought of a big truck ramming all of your data into another's tubes.

Funny that you should mention it. But ethernet's dominance doesn't make that possible.

a MTU of 1500 is pretty dog gone standard these days.

ahhh, the good old days of big MTUs.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: mwtgg

Originally posted by: blurredvision
Did you get this in an internet that was sent to you yesterday, but you just got it a few seconds ago?

his tubes must be clogged.

its the poker chips clogging up those pipes, so you gotta use a lottery ball and blast it through, clearing the clog.
thats why we allow horse bets online, because the horses have legs and wont clog the pipes.

hey now, Barbaro is doing pretty good.

The tubes do what they are told. I can't help it if the gubment gets involved.

The tubes don't like to be aggitated.

Whose aggitating my tubes?

You aggitating my tubes?

 

[Lithium381]

parody?

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Lithium381
parody?

the whole internet tubes thing has been a recent in-joke... are you in?
some people are just taken a-back by the sheer complexity of the tubes and are fearful of the monsters in the tubes.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Lithium381
parody?

no.

But it is what prompted me to post this. The amount of misinformation being spewed about is mind boggling. Baby jesus is seriously crying right now over people's understanding fo The Internet.

 

[SampSon]

I suppose. It might work well on someone who doesn't know what electricity is.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: SampSon
I suppose. It might work well on someone who doesn't know what electricity is.

oh come on.

Even electricity is best described by a water hose/flow analogy.

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: SampSon
I suppose. It might work well on someone who doesn't know what electricity is.

oh come on.

Even electricity is best described by a water hose/flow analogy.

Sure, when explaining it to chimps.

 

[tfinch2]

I drove my truck through the intarweb today. SampSon sure does like midgets.

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: spidey07
hey now, Barbaro is doing pretty good.

The tubes do what they are told. I can't help it if the gubment gets involved.

The tubes don't like to be aggitated.

Whose aggitating my tubes?

You aggitating my tubes?

*eats big hunk of cake*



I love that commercial.

Nate

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Lithium381
parody?

no.

But it is what prompted me to post this. The amount of misinformation being spewed about is mind boggling. Baby jesus is seriously crying right now over people's understanding fo The Internet.

Correction, it's The Internets.

 

[spidey07]

oh come on dave. internets is a completely appropriate and used term.

there's internets all over the world.

 

[Rubycon]

That is quite the tubular response.

 

[archcommus]

Stewart, to McCain: "Now, Stevens made it very clear to us that the internet is not a big dump truck."

:laugh:

 

[AMCRambler]

I invented the intarweb

 

[Rubycon]

Actually it's innernets. Those be inside innertubes filled with alligator flatulence.

 

[Eeezee]

The internet is NOT a series of tubes.

It's a series of pipes!

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
The internet is NOT a series of tubes.

It's a series of pipes!

Well I guess that really depends on how one does their splices.

 

[her209]

So how would you "analogize" wireless "internetting"?

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: her209
So how would you "analogize" wireless "internetting"?

jrun error pipe overload - can not compute

 

[knightc2]

Has anyone seen this guy? He is old and from Alaska. What do you expect him to really know about the internet? Poor dude probably is just getting used to using a touch tone phone. His explaination wasn't too far from the truth. At least he gets the concept anyway. Why is he the chair on this committee I'll never know.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: her209
So how would you "analogize" wireless "internetting"?

Silly string. :laugh:

Hey it glows under a blacklight. Must be authentic.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: her209
So how would you "analogize" wireless "internetting"?

A highway of cars and police officers with built in mechanisms to avoid collisions. It's still a tube, but there are people (algorithyms) in place to tell you when to go.

also known as carrier sense mulitple access with collision avoidance.

 

[fishmonger12]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Yes it's true! I'm surfing with my 12AX7's and everything is so sweet. Even P&N is like a rose without the thorns. :laugh:

hahahah

I have 8 of those in the amp sitting next to me