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But Ted Stevens got the mental model right. The internet is supposed to be a series of tubes, the tube is supposed not to care what flows through it. This app
by HarryHirsch 11y ago
But Ted Stevens got the mental model right. The internet is supposed to be a series of tubes, the tube is supposed not to care what flows through it. This approach has been very good for innovation, very much unlike the walled gardens we are seeing today.
- ethbro 11y agoThis. When talking to extremely non-technical people (or being one yourself), who are we to begrudge a few abstractions? Isn't the important thing that it's a appropriate and functional abstraction in the problem space in which it's deployed?