In a discussion of net neutrality, which he doesn't like, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) said the following:
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. 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 you just dump something on. It's not a 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 its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
What happened to Senator Stevens' e-mail? Here's a forensic study. Here's a Powerpoint explanation.
Posted by Linkmeister at July 19, 2006 12:01 AM | TrackBackI like the musical interpretations circulating out there the best. And Stevens references are popping up everywhere. Now when a site is "Slashdotted," they put up a notice saying that their "tubes are clogged."
Posted by: Ryan at July 19, 2006 03:57 PM