Ahhh, that’s a nice memory of when “its a series of tubes” was enough to be considered a politically damaging gaff.
This was career ending:
Dan Quale was unelectable because he thought potato had an e on the end
Au contraire, Ross Perot kept him out. He’d alredy been elected once.
Yes, that is the scream that sunk his campaign.
Ironically, nobody in the room with Dean noticed anything out of the ordinary—they witnessed what seemed like nothing more than an impassioned speech, with Dean’s famous scream drowned out by the cheers that filled the room. Dean’s audio setup, however, isolated his voice for the television audience, making the “Dean Scream” stand out jarringly and comically. The clip became a sensation on cable news, discussed and replayed countless times over the week between the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary, a perfect gift for Dean’s detractors.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-dean-scream
It’s not a big truck!
It’s a series of tubes!
Ted Stevens, Senator for Alaska, addressed the Senate in 2006 and made history.
Here is a link to the whole 10 minute speech. If you’re like me and that sounds dreadful, here follows a transcript:
"Now the Internet, you know, let’s go back. Internet started with a concept of local to local connections across the country.
And, and you could for in Alaska, but you only had, you had to go through local connections to get there.
Industry wisely provided for streaming for, in effect, a new kind of long distance. And that’s what we’ve got.
We’ve got a service that’s immune to distance.
And, it’s there for the consumer.
But, when we take, and really indicate that wants to use it, this system, for massive, massive commercial purposes.
There’s one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by subscription, by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and in your monthly, you change your order, but you pay for that, right.
But this service is not going to go through the internet and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them, and delivered to you and the delivery charge is free. Right?
Ten movies 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 got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things that going on the internet commercially.
And here we have this one situation where enormous entities want to use the Internet for their purposes to save money for what they’re doing now. They use FedEx. They use the delivery services. They use the mail. They deliver in other ways.
But, 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’re filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material…"
I don’t even know Jeffrey, I don’t want to climb into his tubes.
So that’s how the warp drive works
Happy to help and thanks for the reminder of this blowhard.
