Re: What is Usenet? [REPOST]

[email protected] (Sn!pe) wrote in
news:1qklr3c.k2mogo1ldli59N%[email protected]: 

> 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)  
> 

I'm good. How're you?