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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 04:13 PM
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Poll question: Which Internet browser most closely matches the intelligence level of the average FREEP?
Edited on Wed Jun-18-08 04:14 PM by Amerigo Vespucci


"Hello? RimJob? I feel CONFIDENT that McCain will win in November!"

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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 04:14 PM
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1. Two tin vans?
Who browses in a van?
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 04:15 PM
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2. I was fast, but not fast ENOUGH!
DAMN you, DU Spell Check!

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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 11:37 PM
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8. I guess you don't use Firefox
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 04:20 PM
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4. this guy?
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 04:18 PM
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3. IE 3.0
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papapi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 10:31 PM
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5. IE should be BANNED!
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 10:34 PM
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6. Does AOL count? That's what most freeptards use.
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papapi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-19-08 08:28 AM
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10. The AOL browser still hasn't learned how to download an image.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-18-08 10:35 PM
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7. smoke signals nt
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-19-08 12:18 AM
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9. You left off Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol
Pigeon-powered Internet takes flight
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: May 4, 2001 1:15 PM PDT

One of the Internet's most obscure technologies came to life last weekend: transmitting network information by carrier pigeon.

In 1990, David Waitzman wrote RFC 1149 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt), a tongue-in-cheek standard for using pigeons to transfer information using the Internet Protocol (IP). On Saturday, a group of Linux enthusiasts in Bergen, Norway, succeeded in exchanging some data using the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol (CPIP).

The group transmitted a "ping" command, among the most basic operations of the Internet, in which one computer sends a signal to another, which in turn signals that it is attached to the network. In the experiment, packets of network data were printed on paper then attached to pigeons' legs. Upon their arrival at the destination, the data was transferred to the computer using optical character recognition software.

The Bergen Linux Users Group had some assistance from the Vesta Brevdueforening carrier pigeon club and Alan Cox, a programmer at Linux leader Red Hat and top deputy of Linux founder Linus Torvalds.

The pigeon protocol didn't mean the fastest of networks, though. Taking an hour and 42 minutes to transfer a 64-byte packet of information makes the pigeon network about 5 trillion times slower than today's cutting-edge 40 gigabit-per-second optical fiber networks.

With a bit more luck than the Bergen group experienced, a basic Web page probably could be loaded in a couple of hours, participant Vegard Engen said in an e-mail interview.

More: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-257064.html

The highly unofficial CPIP WG - http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-19-08 08:31 AM
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11. Now there's a politically correct Internet browser.
Give me a break. :nuke: :grr:
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