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noracharles) wrote2010-11-19 03:46 pm
noracharles) wrote2010-11-19 03:46 pm
Mark Twain wrote a story about the internet in 1898
From Colin Murdock, at Cracked
"Day by day, and night by night, he called up one corner of the globe after another, and looked upon its life, and studied its strange sights, and spoke with its people. ... He seldom spoke, and I never interrupted him when he was absorbed in this amusement."
Fun :-)
My favorite description of the internet (other than it's "a series of tubes") is in Vernor Vinge's True Names, which I must have read around 1986 or 1987.
I thought it sounded a bit lonely then, hanging out in chatrooms and forums with a bunch of bitchy, backstabbing people. But in reality, people on the internet turned out to be much nicer.
"Day by day, and night by night, he called up one corner of the globe after another, and looked upon its life, and studied its strange sights, and spoke with its people. ... He seldom spoke, and I never interrupted him when he was absorbed in this amusement."
Fun :-)
My favorite description of the internet (other than it's "a series of tubes") is in Vernor Vinge's True Names, which I must have read around 1986 or 1987.
I thought it sounded a bit lonely then, hanging out in chatrooms and forums with a bunch of bitchy, backstabbing people. But in reality, people on the internet turned out to be much nicer.