World of Ends

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 7, 2003 @05:41AM from the it-starts-with-an-earthquake,-birds-and-snakes dept.

epeus writes "At World of Ends, Doc Searls and David Weinberger explain the End-to-End nature of the internet in terms so clear even your manager could understand them. 'The Internet isn't complicated. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. The Internet is stupid. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.' and so forth."

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I'd say First Post, but it probably isn't so... by soulctcher · 2003-03-07 05:44 · Score: 4, Funny

So what I will say is that this has got to be one of the most confusing, yet clear topics I've read on /. in a long time.
In that case by Raul654 · 2003-03-07 05:45 · Score: 4, Funny

I hope he goes for a real-world case study -- the end to end transfer of a given porn movie. Definetely something your manager can read and relate to, plus it gives you an easy springboard onto such topics as average throughput, burst transmissions, etc :)

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Are they technological-age hippies? by Meat+Blaster · 2003-03-07 05:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Because (at least by the writeup) it sounds like they're delivering some sort of Zen-style analysis from within a cloud of blue smoke. How well does the sound of a hand stream over the Internet?
World Ends by Slycee · 2003-03-07 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh God I missed the "of" at first.

Heaven help us. I found out about Armageddon on slashdot.

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1. Re:World Ends by nurightshu · 2003-03-07 06:13 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Only subscribers would know about it -- by the time it hit the front page for the rest of us rabble, the nukes would already be here.
  
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2. Re:World Ends by PD · 2003-03-07 06:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They'd write this:
  
  "Nuclaer bombs' on thier weigh"
  
  And we'd all be complaining about spelling errors when the big one hits.
  
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The Internet is stupid. by stratjakt · 2003-03-07 05:57 · Score: 5, Funny

No, you're stupid, you big stupid!

Signed,
The Internet

PS: I'm rubber you're glue

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Hmmm... by natron+2.0 · 2003-03-07 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny

I wonder if Al Gore realized this when he invented it...

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