called the internet a series of tubes, why was the metaphor lost to most people. It makes sense if you think about it for a minute.
2007-06-28 16:43:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
C'mon, one of the people who has the greatest power over telecommunications says his staff sent him "an Internet", then goes on to explain that the Internet isn't "a truck", it's a lot of "tubes" -- it's funny!
Obviously he's grasped the concept of limited bandwidth, but the first grade-level analogy just doesn't cut it.
2007-06-28 16:57:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boy am I dating myself now. Even car radios had vacuum tubes and well as the huge home models and T.V. I remember only two channels. CBS and NBC and then we didn't get one for years after it was marketed. The tube led to the transistor, the transistor to the chip. Kids today cannot imagine growing up without T.V. We did our home work listening to the old radio shows. The Jack Benny Show, Amos and Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, the Great Gildersleeves. My Dad passed away in 1985, but he told me before his death he had watched more advances in technology in his lifetime than mankind had seen in the last 200 years. He was born just before Orville and Wilbur flew at Kittyhawk. The computer that Art Linkletter used on his television show weighed over 3000 pounds and cannot do one tenth of the things of a hand held one can today. I still don't understand how some sila sand can make a musical tone.
2007-06-29 00:38:55 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if I agree that it was lost to most people - I do believe it was lost to anyone under the age of 25 or so - I believe the term "tube" would not be familiar to most of the younger generation.
My own personal experience with this exact phenomenon was when I showed my 13 year old grandson an old antique radio I purchased at an auction and when it didn't turn right on instantly with the switch, he didn't think it worked. When I told him to give it a minute or two because the tubes had to warm up and he looked at me like I was talking in a foreign language or something.
Generation gap in action, I guess.
2007-06-29 00:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tube-tops?
2007-06-28 23:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by naysayer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which senator said that? And what did he mean by tubes?
2007-06-28 23:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Adolf Schmichael 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋