How about "tubes" (couldn't resist) ... Richard On 7/1/08 8:34 AM, "elijah wright" <elijah.wright@gmail.com> wrote:
I like those thoughts. It's easy to joke about Sen. Steven's "tubes" but that's a metaphor even technically-minded persons resort to at times (useful when discussing bandwidth, for example).
I see that "pipe" didn't make the list... as in, "how big is the pipe (connection to the internet) you guys have?"
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