I just don't get itPoor Semiret, he's foreign and has no idea if he "should laugh about the whole 'only playing music when they are out of ice cream' thing or not." There's also a Far Side cartoon that has had him stumped for almost 20 years.
What don't you understand? What have you politely gone along with whilst internally going WTF?
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chthonic, Thu 31 Mar 2005, 11:09)
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TechnophobeThe internet and computers.
I'm sure that some of you can explain it all to me (but please don't, I like to live in blissful ignorance) but if my understanding is correct, what I am typing now is transferred in to zeros and ones and yet is on everyones elses screen and looks like this. How? How does that happen? How does all the information travel through the cables? What form does it take? Is it like electricity(which I do get) or is it something else? And how is stuff stored on my computer without pens and paper and such like. I don't get it.
And TV and the telephone. How does that happen? How do the sounds and pictures get to us? I don't understand. Is it like on Willy Wonka when all the little bits travel through the air and then come back together on my screen or in my phone. Its unbelieveble! How do people come up with this stuff. What kind of person thinks like that that they can come up with a computer or a TV or a telephone?
I need to lie down. My mind is boggling.
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