Internets?
in the early morning on Saturday, the 9th of October 2004 by Chad
I missed the debate last night. Spent all week getting ready for and doing a Disaster Recovery exercise for work. Went as well as can be expected, even though I was up 3 hours early, and missed any daylight before I got to leave. Ahh well. But at least now that its “over” I can get back to blogging a bit more.
So this morning I’m reading about the debate, and
how everything thinks President Bush said something funny.
The debate did offer a few moments of levity - some unintended, as when Bush denied that there would ever be a reinstatement of the draft under his watch, saying it was a rumor “on the Internets.”
Why is that funny? Oh, wait, because most people don’t know that there are TWO internets. You see, there is a second, high speed internet used by universities, mostly for research. And, since the referenced email about the draft is making its way around the dreadfully uninformed college types, I am sure that this same email has been spread on Internet2. So Mr Bush is a lot more informed than most people think!
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October 14th, 2004 at 9:23 pm
Arr, matey, ‘ere’s a third Internet, operated by Uncle Sugar himself it is. And completely segregated from the others because it carries classified information.
Jus’ cuz it’s classified doesn’t mean its denizens have no sense of humor, either.
October 14th, 2004 at 9:24 pm
And damn sure the Prez has a SIPRnet account too.
October 16th, 2004 at 7:16 pm
And because the two networks of networks are interconnected — they’re called, umm, the internet?