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The "Internet is a series of tubes" meme from years back was an earlier example of this. The senator was trying to explain the concept of network congestion. No
by djur 8y ago
The "Internet is a series of tubes" meme from years back was an earlier example of this. The senator was trying to explain the concept of network congestion. Now, his actual argument was garbage (it was an anti-net neutrality argument), and there were things he said that were very funny (like referring to an email as "an Internet"), but the "series of tubes" language was a perfectly reasonable analogy.
- ghaff 8y agoPeople who are deep in a particular area are often very dismissive of metaphors and other simplifications or attempt to explain for a broader audience because they're not "right." But that's often fine if you're trying to get a concept across rather than writing technical documentation.