The internet: a series of tubes. via imagemacros.files.wordpress.com

“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.” Senator Ted Stevens describes the Internet in the context of network neutrality (2006) via wired – Your own personal internet