PSA - The Internet really is a series of tubes

[spidey07]

It's funny that somehow this very easy and very accurate description of the Internet is now the butt of jokes.

That's what it is folks. A series of tubes/pipes. Very analogous to the old system of putting information in an envelope, then placing in a container, and then putting it into the tube.

It's just a lot easier to think of it as pipes/tubes.

Yes, I'm being serious. There is nothing special about it.

 

[blurredvision]

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

 

[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.

 

[Ika]

I must've missed the memo...

 

[Rubycon]

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:

 

[spidey07]

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.

another good analogy. If the tubes are clogged the containers spill out onto the floor and swept away.

 

[spidey07]

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:

You haven't answered my question, yet.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: spidey07

You haven't answered my question, yet.

Was that about tubes or horns?

 

[Skeeedunt]

Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

 

[spidey07]

We'll figure that out at our wedding.

I'll go with horns played by tube amps.

 

[RichardE]

We should call up and complaing to Google and Youtube for overflowing the tubes when our internets are slow

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: spidey07

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.

another good analogy. If the tubes are clogged the containers spill out onto the floor and swept away.

Analogy, sure. But Senator Stevens was being serious, it seemed.

 

[DurocShark]

OMGMYPERSONALINTERNETSARECLOGGED!!!!!

 

[RichardE]

Is this you?

Originally posted by: DurocShark
OMGMYPERSONALINTERNETSARECLOGGED!!!!!

If it is buy ClogMyPronfree now...

For 4 payments of 19.95, you too can have unclogged internets.

(cue 90 minute infomercial)

 

[chuckywang]

Regardless, that man has no idea how the internet works, and he's the one that's supposed to regulate it?

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Regardless, that man has no idea how the internet works, and he's the one that's supposed to regulate it?

He's a member of a committee, it's not solely up to him. It will be OK, it's not like he can single handedly screw anything up.

As for his understanding of the internet, keep in mind that we here at AT are by no means normal... The vast majority of the world has absolutely no clue how the internet works. He's actually not doing that bad to be able to make that analogy.

Viper GTS

 

[Kalvin00]

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

 

[EarthwormJim]

It's not the fact that he used pipes that's funny, it's the way he described them...

 

[PingSpike]

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.

LOL

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: spidey07
It's funny that somehow this very easy and very accurate description of the Internet is now the butt of jokes.

That's what it is folks. A series of tubes/pipes. Very analogous to the old system of putting information in an envelope, then placing in a container, and then putting it into the tube.

It's just a lot easier to think of it as pipes/tubes.

Yes, I'm being serious. There is nothing special about it.

Yes, it really is a series of tubes. This is why online gambling is so dangerous, the internet poker chips can get clogged in the tubes and then nothing else can get through! Sometimes lottery gambling is okay though because the little ball shoots through the tube and unclogs it like draino.

It's actually slightly more complicated than just a series of pipes and tubes, but that is a very, very basic way of thinking about it. You should watch the John Stewart clip that I suspected started this joke fad. The graphical itnerpretation of this was priceless.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

you *could* semi-effectively describe the internet using a pipe analogy

not in any manner similar to what he attempted however

 

[rasczak]

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.

 

[Rubycon]

It's a good thing one cannot send steak over the internet...

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
It's a good thing one cannot send steak over the internet...

So you are interested in my offer. Good to know. I can cook you things that you can only imagine on your tongue. It really is that good. Search my threads....love it.

But for any lay person describing the intarweb as a series of tubes is pretty dead on.

 

[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.