January 25, 2009
Totally tubular!
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Here’s a second question for the day to make up for the repeat one earlier this week, folks.
Identify this chap and why he shot to “fame” on the interwebs:
Cracked by Atul Mathew , Kal , Goyal , Rohan , Raghuvansh , username , udupendra , Jean Valjean , Mo and karthik.
Answer:
As Jean Valjean put it very succinctly, “Ted Stevens, Father of the intertubes”
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January 29th, 2009 at 9:06 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1233263160 )
Ted Stevens,a senator from Alaska. Famous for “The Internet is a Series of Tubes” quote which was parodied on the Daily Show by Jon Stewart.
January 29th, 2009 at 9:35 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1233264921 )
Ted Stevens and here\’s how he shot to fame, straight from wikipedia
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January 29th, 2009 at 9:35 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1233264952 )
” is an analogy used by former United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of network neutrality.[1] On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers. This metaphor (along with several other odd choices of words) was widely ridiculed as demonstrating Stevens’s poor understanding of the Internet, despite being in charge of regulating it.[2]
January 29th, 2009 at 9:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1233265288 )
Senator Ted Stevens
January 30th, 2009 at 12:25 am, GMT +0000 ( 1233275114 )
ted stevens, series of tubes analogy to the internet
January 30th, 2009 at 1:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1233280519 )
US Senator Ted Stevens, who hath said famously “The Internet is a series of tubes.”
January 30th, 2009 at 4:49 am, GMT +0000 ( 1233290974 )
Ted Stevens
“Series of tubes” is an analogy used by former United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet in the context of network neutrality. On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
January 30th, 2009 at 7:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1233302174 )
Ted Stevens, who described the intarwebs as a series of tubes
January 30th, 2009 at 8:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1233304823 )
Ted Stevens, Father of the intertubes.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1233309718 )
Ted Stevens – the internet is a series of tubes
January 30th, 2009 at 9:04 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1233349468 )
ted stevens