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Well, it's a series, but also a collection at the same time, right? Unless you conceive of the internet as one long line of tubes connected one to the other (s
by wavefunction 11y ago
Well, it's a series, but also a collection at the same time, right? Unless you conceive of the internet as one long line of tubes connected one to the other (series) rather than a number of tubes, some connected in series but others running in parallel.
That's the subtlety of language the parent was referring to.
- theoh 11y agoActually the original context is something like "the internet is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes" which makes it clear that he was referring to what was involved in sending data down a single connection. It would be absurd to infer that Stevens thought real-world truck haulage consisted of "one big truck" rather than a fleet.