At 09:23 AM 1/05/2009, Ian Batterbee wrote:
That was so bad I thought I was reading an article from the onion!
Ruh roh. We'd better all upgrade to Internet 2.
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From: Yun Huang Yong
I think this is the Onion piece:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/d5h8np
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That's just about the silliest thing I have seen!
"The internet has been up for 5000 days, about 13 years, and hasn't broken down once."
According to that the internet was 'started' in 1996! (See RFC 1 by Steve Crocker April 1969) I wonder what the hell I was on in 1987! Surely they wouldn't want to know about the introduction section of RFC 1254: A large number of widely dispersed Internet sites experienced simultaneous slowdown or cessation of networking services for prolonged periods...
"youtube transmits more data than the internet." Wow, I didn't know youtube was out of band... ;-)
I think the pink aloha shirt was affecting the brain of "sunrise gadget guy". That thing is worse that the old Magnum PI shirts! http://www.mokuman.com/images/magnumpi-shirt_header534.jpg
scott
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