{"id":4647,"date":"2010-04-11T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2010\/04\/11\/the-internet-a-series-of-tubes-via\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:53:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:53:27","slug":"the-internet-a-series-of-tubes-via","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2010\/04\/11\/the-internet-a-series-of-tubes-via\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The internet: a series of tubes.\u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/imagemacros.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/the-internet-a-series-of-tubes.jpg\">imagemacros.files.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rsquo;s not a big truck. It&rsquo;s a series of tubes. And if you don&rsquo;t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it&rsquo;s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.&rdquo; Senator Ted Stevens describes the Internet in the context of network neutrality (2006) via <a title=\"Your Own Personal Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2006\/06\/your_own_person\/\">wired &#8211; Your own personal internet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet: a series of tubes.\u00a0via imagemacros.files.wordpress.com &ldquo;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&rsquo;s not a big truck. It&rsquo;s a series of tubes. And if you don&rsquo;t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1cX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5237,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/06\/website-functions\/","url_meta":{"origin":4647,"position":0},"title":"Website functions:","author":"monochromist","date":"March 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"1. 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