Tubes

[squirmelia]

Every time I pass this sign, I wonder what kind of tubes they stock. Jubilee line tubes? Fallopian tubes? Test tubes? etc.

Comments

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

But he was using it in contrast to 'trucks', which better fits the idea of a packet-switched network, though?

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

If the packets are the trucks, the internet is the road system, and you get similar metaphors from the width of the roads, speed limits, etc.