[jaystraw]

cops still stealing skateboards? i explained packet switching to my friend today, he got it which was cool -- but on the ebb of the topic i said that without it, the world today would be way, way different. i dunno, i dunno what you expected. i'm 1986, and am continually beside myself. about what's possible, not neccesarily what's implemented.

[_kb]

Every astonishing feat of humanity is built on a tower of accreted now mundane technology (with that word meant in the wider sense, not computers).