Re: internet WTF is it?
Matt Brown (ccmatt@showme.missouri.edu)
Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:32:10 -0600
At 6:17 PM 3/29/95, Chuck wrote:
>I like using the analogy of comparing the network as a roadway system in
>a city type environment. ie. a car is "information" which you send out.
>If a car comes from your house, it is your data, etc.. The interstates are
>MCI and ANS, LA traffic is Sprint.. etc.. =]
>
>Services such as lynx, gopher, etc. could be considered libraries, the coffee
>house as a small bbs environment, FTP sites as supermarkets, and a
>stadium as IRC.
>
>Hope this helps.. I thought up of the idea a while back when a person
>thought IRC _was_ internet.. =]
As cliche as the highway analogy has become, I also think it provides the
clearest **general** overview of the 'net. It works especially well for
completely computer-illiterate people.
Matt Brown
<ccmatt@showme.missouri.edu>
<http://www.missouri.edu/~c624618/>
"When you cross a post-modernist
with a used car salesman, you get
a deal you can't understand."
-- Jerry N. Uelsmann, 2/4/95