[550] in Humor
What is the Information Superhighway?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Litt)
Thu Nov 17 13:33:08 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 13:29:39 -0500
From: Jonathan Litt <littlitt@MIT.EDU>
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Q: What is the Information Superhighway?
A: It's just like the internet, except:
o it's a lot more expensive.
o you can't post and there's no killfile.
o there's no alt.sex.* or alt.drugs
o rec.humor.funny has a laugh track.
o there's a commercial break every 10 minutes.
o everything is formatted to 40 columns for TV's.
o the free software costs you $2.00/megabyte to ftp, more for
long distance.
A: It's just like cable TV, except:
o it's a lot more expensive.
o the picture isn't as good.
o there's 500 channels of Pay-per-View and home-shopping.
o you can watch any episode of Gilligan's Island or any Al Gore speech
for only $2.00.
o no public access channels.
o there's a commercial break every 10 minutes.
A: It's just like renting videos, except:
o it's a lot more expensive.
o there's only 1/100th as many to choose from.
o no porno.
o there's no pause, fast-forward, or rewind, and it costs
you another $3.95 if you want to watch twice.
o there's a commercial break every 10 minutes.
A: It's just like the telephone, except:
o it's a lot more expensive.
o there's no one to talk to.
o there's a commercial break every 10 minutes.
o every number is a toll call.
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