Man who deemed internet "Series of Tubes" dies in plane crash

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Aug 10, 2010 9:52 PM
Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, the man who called the internet "a series of tubes" died in a plane crash Monday Night.
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_alaska_plane_crash

RIP
Aug 10, 2010 9:52pm
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Tiernan

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Aug 11, 2010 11:03 AM
Too bad more current Senators weren't on the plane.
Aug 11, 2010 11:03am
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Aug 11, 2010 12:19 PM
Tiernan;448239 wrote:Too bad more current Senators weren't on the plane.

Too bad you weren't on the plane.
Aug 11, 2010 12:19pm
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Aug 11, 2010 12:56 PM
Why are people dying in a plane crash considered funny?
Aug 11, 2010 12:56pm
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ernest_t_bass

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Aug 11, 2010 1:55 PM
Enormous amounts of material.
Aug 11, 2010 1:55pm
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Tiernan

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Aug 11, 2010 3:45 PM
Iliketurtles;448291 wrote:Too bad you weren't on the plane.

Don't tell me you're a Senator lover are ya? Nuthin worse than a shitbird Senator lover...
Aug 11, 2010 3:45pm
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Aug 11, 2010 8:38 PM
What a hero!

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