Explain the Internet to a 19th Century Street Urchin

12 years ago

Previously.

Tags: grim meathook future, mad science, retrocomputing, the future

7 Responses:

1. pavel_lishin says:

   12 years ago at 3:38 pm

   It's a grim future indeed if twitter survives 1000+ years.

2. jonabbey says:

   12 years ago at 3:42 pm

   Awesome.

3. cathodion says:

   12 years ago at 4:02 pm

   I thought you You were going to turn out to be an older Oliver going back to explain the internet to his younger self.

4. azul_ros says:

   12 years ago at 4:38 pm

   Vaguely reminds me of this:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9f-s0KmOU

5. pne says:

   12 years ago at 1:25 am

   Now I'm left wondering why an urchin in London would say "store" instead of "shop".

   • nagarerutenshi says:

     12 years ago at 5:03 pm

     TIME PARADOX!

6. strspn says:

   12 years ago at 1:33 am

   Sometimes I feel like the business press is writing just for me.