Re: [TCLUG:17423] short description of the Internet

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>Hmmmm... does "talking on the telephone" as a metaphor work?
>(When you click on your browser for a page, it makes a really fast phone
>call to a server computer....  ftp is like leaving or retrieving a voice mail
>... telnet is like..... etc.)

        I don't know about that... the similarity doesn't seem very obvious
to me (then again, I never claimed to like or understand telephones, so I'm
a bit biased.):)

>BTW, are you going to have any pictures or diagrams?
        
hadn't immediately planned on it; probably ASCII art at best.

Carl Soderstrom
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