I just found this via Sociological Images and just had to post it. It’s a “Good Morning America” “Today Show” clip from 1994, in which Bryant Gumbel, Katie Couric, and a co-host try to decipher the ‘@’ symbol and explain what the ‘Internet’ is. They eventually have to ask one of the (presumably) tech guys behind the scenes for help.
So you have some context, this sure-to-be-a-classic conversation took place after the January Northridge earthquake in California.
Does this mean the “series of tubes” description is pretty historically recent?
Feb. 3: Looks like this Youtube video has been deleted- hope you got a chance to see it!
One reply on “What is that little ‘a’ with the circle around it? ‘At?’ ‘About?’”
Whoa. That was very much a slice of a specific time.