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Ask NH: How would you describe Internet to someone from 19th century?
Some ideas:
1. "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 it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
2. Super fast postman that deliver your mail instantly (Probably applies more to e-mail)... Still...
- mopoke 16y agoIt's like a telegraph that allows you to stalk friends you knew at school.
- noonespecial 16y agoI think I'd just let Nikola Tesla do it for me.
- nudge 16y agoA lens through which any text can be read, any image viewed, any voice heard, and with which one can correspond and converse with any person in any place.
- miles 16y agoHow to Explain the Internet to a 19th-Century Street Urchin http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662563/infographic-how-do-you-explain-the-internet-to-a-19th-century-street-urchin http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662563/infographic-how-do-you-e...