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. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who make, use, and are affected by it. Since joining The Verge ...

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 ...

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... The Internet: A Series Of 'Tubes' (And Then Some) ...

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 ...

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 ...

It began as an academic subject with a wonky name — network neutrality. But at its heart, the issue was simple: Internet service providers should treat all content equally. Within a few years, the ...

What does the internet look like? It's a question with no real answer, but that doesn't stop people from creating metaphors, whether they're uninformed like Ted Stevens or drawing on actual data like ...

Poor Ted Stevens. For the past eight and a half years, the world has had many a laugh at the late Alaska Senator’s expense after he described the Internet as “a series of tubes” while arguing against ...

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 ...