Re: What is Usenet? [REPOST]

Merlyne <[email protected]> wrote:

> [email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote in
> news:1qk11x6.10zulnoshlyacN%[email protected]: 
> 
> > [from: news.groups, alt.fan.usenet]
> > 
> > Scott Dorsey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> >> Larry Doering posted the following to talk.bizarre in the
> >> mid-nineties: 
> >> 
> >> ] THINK of the computer highway AS a highway.
> >> ] 
> >> ] There it is again.  Some clueless FOOL talking about the
> >> ] "Information Superhighway."  They don't know JACK about the Net.
> >> ] It's NOTHING like a Superhighway.  That's a BAD metaphor.
> >> ] 
> >> ] Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction.  Suppose
> >> ] the HIGHWAYS were like the NET.  All right!  Severe craziness.  A
> >> ] highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide.  Most with potholes.  Privately
> >> ] operated bridges and overpasses.  No highway patrol.  A couple of
> >> ] rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles.  500 member VIGILANTE
> >> ] POSSES with nuclear weapons.  237 ON RAMPS at every intersection.
> >> ] NO SIGNS.  Wanna get to Ensenada?  Holler out the window at a
> >> ] passing truck to ask directions.  AD HOC traffic laws.  Some lanes
> >> ] would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a CAPITAL
> >> ] OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00.  Other
> >> ] lanes would just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on a car
> >> ] phone. 
> >> ] 
> >> ] AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA
> >> ] victims and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it.  Throwing
> >> ] DEAD WOMBATS and rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which
> >> ] have been ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits.  Some are 2.5 horsepower
> >> ] LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top speed of nine miles an hour.  Others
> >> ] burn NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120.
> >> ] 
> >> ] No license tags.  World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead.  Terrifying
> >> ] paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES.  Bumper mounted MACHINE
> >> ] GUNS.  Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE
> >> ] PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your tailpipe.  Flatbed trucks with ANTI-
> >> ] AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down the KRUD Traffic Watch
> >> ] helicopter.  A little kid on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled
> >> ] with HYDROCHLORIC ACID.
> >> ] 
> >> ] NO OFFRAMPS.
> >> ] 
> >> ] Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I hope this is helpful.  Much of this applies to Usenet.
> >> --scott
> > 
> 
> LOL!
>

It's fun isn't it.  It may be ancient but it's still true.

How are you, Merlyne?  Well, I hope.  We're still going here, 
getting older, bloodied but still unbowed.     ≈:o)  

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