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

[wade.a.harding@ac.com]

I've found that many people think of "the Internet" and their "computer" in
terms of what they use the box for, rather than how they work. Any attempt
to tell them otherwise only causes problems.

For example: Recently, I discussed with my uncle (recently retired
professor) the topic of the computer. He asked me what I thought a computer
was. I told him that it was fundamentally a machine that processed
mathematical functions. He said "no, it's a box that holds information and
allows people to communicate with each other."

You say tomato...



"Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>
05/09/2000 09:11 AM MST
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>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
System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
Minnesota DHIA         Buffalo, MN
carls@agritech.com      (763) 682-1091


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