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the mistake is to think about data as water and wires as pipes, this is a classic but understandable fallacy for those that do not grasp the basic tenets of thi
by lingben 12y ago
the mistake is to think about data as water and wires as pipes, this is a classic but understandable fallacy for those that do not grasp the basic tenets of this topic
remember the 'series of tubes' comment by Senator Stevens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
- ademarre 12y agoIn his book Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, Andrew Blum presents a partial defense of the late senator's analogy: "I have confirmed with my own eyes that the Internet is many things, in many places. But one thing it most certainly is, nearly everywhere, is, in fact, a series of tubes."