{"id":174,"date":"2008-09-03T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/?p=174"},"modified":"2013-09-07T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:37:43","slug":"aboutinternets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2008\/09\/aboutinternets","title":{"rendered":"about:internets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people didn&#8217;t believe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Stevens\">Senator Ted Stevens<\/a> when he said that the Internet was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Series_of_tubes\">series of tubes<\/a>. Well now, thanks to Google, there is proof that he was right! In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/\">Google Chrome<\/a>, if you have it, visit <code>about:internets<\/code>. This provides a graphical illustration of the internet which looks very much like a series of tubes to me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It appears to based upon the Windows 3D Pipes screensaver. It uses the mixed joints, but I&#8217;m not sure if it also includes the teapots, like the real screensaver. If you see one, let me know.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The internets really is a <em>series of tubes<\/em>!","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,20,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}