Alan,

  You think thats bad?  Here is what a US Senator has to say about the
internet.  Very Funny Stuff:

  "And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's
not a truck.  It's a series of tubes."  Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)

   http://media.publicknowledge.org/stevens-on-nn.mp3

-josh


On 7/11/06, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
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> I always thought I understood that average people were somewhat ignorant
> about the Internet, what it is, etc.  Then I was shocked into the
> reality this Sunday.
>
> I was showing the funny GetFirefox commercials to my visiting extended
> family when the following conversation between my sister-in-law, my
> mother-in-law (both reasonably intelligent) and myself occurred:
>
> Mother: What is Firefox? Is that an Internet service?
> Sister (before I could answer): Firefox is like AOL or MSN.COM, right?
> Mother: Oh, so you go on the Internet and visit there. We have cable
> Internet at home. Can we get Firefox there?
> Me: Firefox is a web browser not a service. Like Internet Explorer is a
> browser.
> Sister: So it IS like AOL.
> Mother: But can I get it through cable?
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> I was dumbfounded that two normal people had no concept what a browser
> was.  I didn't feel like starting an Internet 101 class at that moment,
> nor did we have the time, so I dropped it.
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> How can Firefox, for example, sell itself to people who think it is an
> ISP? We FS/OSS advocates have a lot education to do before people even
> understand what the choice IS, let alone that they have one!
>
> Alan
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