Ted Stevens Goes Down the Tubes

In honor of Sen. Ted Stevens' indictment on federal corruption charges, we offer a tribute to the man who once famously declared that the Internet is "not a truck, it's a series of tubes."

Stevens' laughable statement inspired widespread mockery across the Intertubes, including this classic techno remix.

The Daily Show's hilarious coverage of Stevens' dump-truck-tubes symposium is also worth revisiting.

As a refersher, here's what Stevens said during a hearing on Net Neutrality back in 2006, when he was chairman of the Senate Commerice Committee:

"I just the other day got -- an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...

"They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

"And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

His Internet expertise will be sorely missed, though if it's any consolation, Stevens should remember that a prison is really just a series of bars.

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