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- pirana0, on 10/12/2007, -9/+332"The internet is a series of mail trucks."
- cramd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+67But what about the other Intrenets? If they too are trucks we could be looking at a serious traffic jam here. I suggest that we have to roads for travel; one for commerce (paying the way), and one for commuters. It is just not fair for all drives to expect to be able to travel down the highways that the others have paid for..
- DanteDefiance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64Should......should I hit him?
- DASH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54It needs a check box for the safe search. Heaven forbid it return anything inappropriate.
- Hubajube, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51@palmer,
>You don't use "'s" to make something plural. So why do we have "1960's" in the description?
Because that's the way we were taught in school. Up until fairly recently, almost every grammar book said that you should add an apostrophe-s to pluralizes numbers (1960's), letters (dot your i's), or words as words (He misused "literally".) Thankfully, this rule has fallen out of favor, as have the rules about split infinitives, starting a sentence with a conjunction, and always moving commas within adjacent quotes. English is a moving target; there's no need to get snippy if someone was taught differently than you.
http://englishplus.com/news/news1201.htm - PoserDad, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49I remeber those days.. Things were slower.
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43Porn...
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36instant gratification is killing us
- everyone wants stuff now so you have record debt.
- everyone wants instant profits immediately so you have a volatile stock market and share holders who dont give a company time to research new avenues of profit or take risks.
- everyone wants work done immediately so they're working people so hard at their jobs that they burn out.
we all need to slow down and go zen-style
if we dont we'll run this country right into the ground. - austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Oh God, I called him retarded, and now I feel bad, because he might actually be retarded.
- Applemacmad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19that's how long it takes to get results
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19You never used a Library before it had computers?
You don't remember the card system? Where you stamped a book out and then search through a massive collection of cards to see if it was even there?
I'm only 22 and I remember doing that a lot... it sucked. - Jamminpotato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light. - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19He's obviously joking...
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Stevens was right, it's not a single big truck
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17@palmer
I think you have a very distorted perspective of English grammar structure. As a matter of fact, you do use "s" to make something plural.
The use of "s" in 1960's is also proper usage, it's a weird little rule but you always do that with dates
@cramd
It's not a "Bush-ism" it's a "Stevens-ism" based on the famous comments made by Sen. Ted Stevens about the internet being a "series of tubes" and "not a dump truck" - jdstorer2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"What would Google have looked like [if it existed] in the 1960's? This image is good step in that direction."
Exactly how many people must block a person before they're completely blocked from digg? There should be a frickin' test before you can sign up. - timdietrich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18People lived a simpler life. They did need the instant gratification that we demand these days.
- VANOS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15C'mon.... you say all that, and don't even mention that Al Gore didn't even INVENT the internet for several decades after the purported image was taken! HMPH!
- debuggercll, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for this reply comment.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15lol, thats pretty clever. Thanks for posting :)
- austindkelly, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17@diggmeupplsthx
you are clearly retarded.
clicking the link would have told you that it is a parody and really quite funny.
in addition to you being possibly retarded, your user name is also teh suck. - TheRedCoat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I thought your comment was funny. I think some may need the /sarcasm tags too often..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13sarcasm...
- Smiegel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Yup. Something I learned in a business class in college really surprised me. US automakers consider and plan for "long term" decisions and opportunities as something like 3 months. Japanese automakers plan for 10-50 years as long term. They plan decades and generations ahead. I think that's why as an industry, they've stayed so strong overseas. In the US, We want our profits now. It's apparent everywhere but it's very acute here.
- cliffotn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Ahhhh the good old days. Typing and correcting for 2 hours on a mimeograph stencil. Whoops! Made a typo, get out the surgical repair kit. But it was all worth it. After 2 hours of document creation and 10 minutes setting up the mimeograph machine, and 5 minutes of turning that freaking crank. Ahhh, the sweet payoff. 50 copies of one document that were still wet. Sweet toxic nirvana. Yes indeed skippy, those were the days.
Let us not forget that smell! Ah, that smell! I feel sorry for today's generation of school kids, they'll never know what they missed. - craftyguy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Are you serious? This guy cannot be serious..
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I used to work at a university. On breaks I would go over to the library and read journals and other publications. It was similar to web surfing, some things I would read each day, some publications I would pick at random to give some variety. I still remember installing Mosaic in '92, or maybe '91. Back then the equivalent of Digg was just a listing of new sites. There might be three or four new sites on a good day!
However, before the Web there were Usenet newsgroups. - weprin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8sarcasm + internet = suck (not the pleasurable kind)
- NV0U, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9WRONG! Marking this as inaccurate!
If this image was of Google in 1960, it would have had an address of:
Google Search Request
1600 Ampitheater Parkway
Mountain View 43, California
Ya see, the ZIP code did not even come into being until 1963!
(yes, I am being sarcastic. I did not digg this down.) - SmackMyMac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I bet That was easier to use than Bable Fish in the 1960's. It took me 2 years just to find out that my Hot 18 year old French pen pal was in fact a 45 year old russian man named "Klev" because of the time it took to get each one of my Translation requests back. It was a real bummer when he sailed over and raped me before I got that final letter from babble fish reading... "My name is Klev, I'm a 45 year old Russian man and I am coming over to rape you now. Chow"
Oh well, you live and learn. - webtekie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Haven't seen it, so t's new to me. Isn't this is the reason digg is popular? I can't see all the pages at all the time but here I can see the ones that are good even if I missed them 2-3 years ago. So stop with this ***** that you've seen it 2-3 years ago. I haven't!
- r0b0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7thats awesome... but how would they ship the hundreds of thousands of results? or would they just ship the first 10 pages?
(A bit off topic but, this is the first time I saw dig since the update and I was like... WHOA!!) - cramd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Well this is just crap. Several weeks ago I printed this form and sent it by post, and have yet to receive my search results. I was hoping that the results to my query "how to stop sever bleeding from lost limb" would have been sent to me in a timely fashion. But alas I sit and type this as my last Oz of blood spills out.
I think I should have sent my query search mail to this new fangled Yahoo! company. I was going to send it to them as well, but with all the clutter on their query form I was lost in ads.
OH there is the postman now.. oh how I hope he has my results! - ascheinberg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9 >So stop with this ***** that you've seen it 2-3 years ago. I haven't!
That's stupid. By that rationale ANYTHING cool that has ever been online should be submitted to catch people up, and that makes the "news" section worthless - and incidentally, not "news." The "news" section ought to be actual news, not just jokes that have been around since 2003.
It's fruitless, this comment will get dugg down just like the one above, but it doesn't change the fact that submitting the same old ***** that went around in email 3 years ago, wikipedia articles, and completely unfounded rumors are what is passing for front page on digg these days. I'm just pointing that out. It will result in a very quick burying, but it's true. - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7College libraries, research papers and the like?
- redban2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10This was cool, when I first saw it, in 2002
- quarsaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@deadlinegrunt
but don't overlook the latency - EricJD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@palmer
Did you even read the page you linked to?
It clearly states:
"The only time when adding apostrophe s to make something plural is when you are working with numbers written as numbers or with words, letters, numbers, or symbols as themselves. An example of working with numbers written as numbers would be if you were referring to the 1990's. In most standard writing this would be written out in words: the nineteen nineties. You use the apostrophe to separate the number from the letter to show the letter is not part of the number." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
- venicerocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Oh God, I called him retarded, and now I feel bad, because he might actually be retarded."
There's GOT to be an image to accompany that line...
v. funny - sifelltneytandi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10God damn, you guys are retarded. He was kidding. And it was about as funny as this submission (read: not very).
- terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I should digg all of you down for being stupid enough to think he's serious,
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yes, but it's not funny
- pneumatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4YAAPN (Yet Another Annoyingly Pedantic Nitpick), zip codes weren't introduced until 1963.
Still, Very Funny. - krizhere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, but what about the "I Feel Lucky" feature which would deliver the first result of your query directly at your door?
- Habemus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And YouTube in 1960 would look like the Vanderbilt Television News Archive looks TODAY. They have taped the the network evening news broadcasts every night from 1968 on. The way the service works is you request a video, pay a fee, then they copy it to VHS tape and PHYSICALLY MAIL it to you and after you finish watching it, you mail it back! "Internet? Never heard of it. Is that a knitting club or something?"
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ - remydlc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Very Funny, specially the moron DiggMeUpPlsThx saying that google did not exist on 1960. duhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
- DrewBlood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3C'mon, this is actually kind of funny. Saw his Wii comment earlier. He's becoming a regular Digg Court Jester.
- GeekedAtBirth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, and I'm sure that auto insurance ad would be there, too!
- SundayTrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Tards! Hit em now!
Back in the day Webcrawler,NNTP an B-Boards was the *****. Remember vets, the days of loading the twinsock and win3.1 and then loading up Mozilla? Remember Delphi ISP? -
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