The title of Andrew Blum’s first book, “Tubes,” is a tacit and playful acknowledgment of something the world’s digerati have long known: Ted Stevens was right. You remember Ted Stevens. He’s the late ...

The late Senator Ted Stevens famously said in a 2006 committee meeting that the “Internet is not something that you just dump something on; it’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes.” While he was ...

Until Monday, Sen. Ted Stevens was best known in technology circles for his "series of tubes" analogy. Now he'll be known for his jury conviction on corruption charges. A federal jury in Washington, D ...

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who ...

Commentary is spreading across the Web after U.S. Senator Ted Stevens described the Internet as a “series of tubes” during a debate on net neutrality June 28. Stevens, the chairman of the Senate ...

Think of a cellular network, and I’ll bet you picture cellphone towers dotting the country, beaming signals into space. Think of a computer network, and maybe you imagine that little blue cord running ...

Internet metaphors don’t stop at the information superhighway. Tubes, libraries and even Joey Bishop have been used to explain the ‘Net. The Internet is the information superhighway. The Internet is ...

What does the Internet look like? Journalist Andrew Blum decided to find out. His new book, Tubes, is a journey into the Internet's physical... Increasingly, Internet users are working "in the cloud" ...

Twitter is bad now. I mean, Twitter always was bad, but it was bad in the ways that french fries are bad or horse track gambling is bad — it was bad because it was so addictively good, but unhealthy.

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who make, use, and are affected by it. Since joining The Verge ...