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  • Series of tubes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    From the page: "Ten movies streaming across that, 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, I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things... more

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  • Rated by clayron on Aug 28, 4:57pm

    The internet: Not a big truck.

  • Reviewed by shizzle5150 on Dec 09 2008, 7:49am

    some one sent me an internet yesterday on stumble and I just got it today.

  • Reviewed by Ascilto on Jul 23 2008, 3:06am

    He explains what we're all scared to ask about. What a guy.

  • Rated by hookerfetus on Jun 23 2008, 7:28pm

    someone sent me an internet once, but all the tubes were clogged so i had to get the plunger.

  • Rated by 911review on Mar 02 2008, 3:41pm

    From the page: ""Series of tubes" is an analogy used by United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet in the context of network neutrality.[1] On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers. This metaphor (along with several other odd choices of words) was widely ridiculed as demonstrating Stevens' poor understanding of the Internet, although some scientists defended the analogy of tubing, and broadband connections have frequently been described as "fat pipes"." ======= QUOTE ========= Ten movies streaming across that, 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, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. [...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.[2] ======== ====== what gets me about this is that he was in the middle of trying to make an argument about "Net Neutrality" thats like someone trying to explain brain surgery that doesnt know how to carve a turkey. comments at FARK here http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2151059

  • Rated by ryanf on Feb 15 2008, 5:58pm

    series of tubes. lol

  • Reviewed by Firebrand151 on Dec 14 2007, 12:22am

    Damn kids and that there interweb. Some serious business those tubes are.

  • Rated by outcast24817 on Nov 22 2007, 12:57am

    Great article, something to tell your grandchildren one day.

  • Rated by TartarControl on Sep 08 2007, 3:41pm

    From the page: "Stevens's "series of tubes" were again referenced in a July 24, 2006 interview with John McCain, where Stewart asked, "You know, privately, can you pull Senator Stevens aside and go, 'It's not really literally tubes'?", to which McCain replied, "I wouldn't want to disillusion him."[11]"