Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Boy..... Talk about getting your wireless crossed....

Even Alexander Graham Bell would probably be stunned...... how crossed.... his wires have gotten.... if he were to reemerge in this 21st century..... and try to make a phone call.
If you kind of scratch your head... and don’t quite understand any of the following terms/technology below..... then... welcome to the Club... of... I hope it works, but I have no idea exactly what has happened.

Skype, wireless router, VOIP, Cable, digital phone, cellular technology, how to use a phone card, satellite communication,
Bandwidth, DSL, texting, sexting, iPod, iPad, Blackberry, instant message, chat function. HD, HDMI, login, logon...... Dr. Evil.... just checking to see if you’re reading.

What started out as 2 cups on a string, has evolved into such an array of communication possibilities, that even Ma Bell would be saying wtf
(What the fuck)


So.....Here’s a quick telecommunications history lesson for Dummies.....Including myself....btw...(by the way)

Once upon a time there was a Telephone company...they put up big brown wood poles with wires suspended from pole to pole and connected the United States.... one town at a time.. The wires carried information.... The Poles got ugly, and the splinters... from those damn things could kill a horse...so they buried the wires...The Telephone company owned the wires they put in the ground. They even crossed the ocean with the wires so the immigrant Americans could phone home.

If you got stuck...you probably called Mable, the operator, and asked for help....she even knew your name...1 ringydingy, 2 ringy dingies...

Then... the TV (television) got invented...and we watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show...we plugged the TV into the electric outlet for power...another set of wires owned by the Electric company... I think they shared the same trenches...but I’m not sure....

About this time... computers were being invented to help us process information at higher speeds...and the military and government were using the computer networks to pass information from computer to computer...this was later known as the Internet...

Then a new set of entrepreneurs wanted to increase the variety of shows that could be produced and make them available for a subscription fee...
This was Cable TV... they needed the same wires...so they leased them from the Telephone Company. Then Fiber optics came along which carried information at a much higher speed...I think the speed is Warp II... into the trenches they go...

So they buried these new wires together in Bands...and now the telephone, cable and electrical company were safely in the flower bed together.

Oh..i forgot Marconi...he was involved with wireless communication.

Are you confused yet...?

So Satellites came into the picture to bounce these wireless signals around the globe.
New telephone companies emerged who could use these wireless devices..to make calls too....so a new gazillion dollar business emerged..
Cellular Telephones... they used those really big towers they put on Uncle Joes Farm....

Let me summarize....telephone> TV> Cable> Internet> wireless Cell phones > computers....

All of the above got connected and interconnected and the company with the most money basically controls the world...
That’s Comcast!!!.

So there you have it.. ..and... wasn’t that easy to understand?

Oh.... pardon me... I have to go....My computer is ringing....rayray