In 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

In 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."