Today I feel like posting a comical conduit post.
Remember when the Internet was new? When newspapers would run reviews of web sites for people to look at?
Soon blogs appeared that might be divided into two types: destination blogs, such as my essays, and conduit blogs, where those who found the site were expected to follow links away, then return. Such pages had sparse comments.
At the time, some thought that most “readers” were glorified “viewers” who disliked reading. A reasonable theory, given the paucity of essays on the web—and in big box book stores. Easier to link to a LOL (laugh out loud) cat than to write “Hey, I found an English literature short story,” or “Here’s a short little classic poem”. Well.
Here, for your reading/viewing pleasure, are my links of the day.
One is by David Wong of the comedy site Cracked, back in 2016. I remember forwarding his piece to a lady in Finland after she blogged after the November of 2016: “Fssstt! That’s the sound this morning of people all over Europe spitting out their coffee. Trump? Really?
Here’s what I sent her
Last fall, I LOLed over Bill Maher’s book of his televised editorials, “New Rule:…” As for two of his editorials on Youtube, I chuckled rather than laughed… because Trump takes the air out of my lungs. Your laughter may vary:
One is a summary of our times:
One is from trying to get politicians (and leftists) to say just one nice thing about their country:
Lastly, from the excellent history teachers (all one word) song website, here’s a light-hearted parody song about the history—no, the present— of the Internet.
This concludes my conduit blog for today.
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Sean Crawford
In a supposedly “flat wired world,”
Although you wouldn’t know it from the advertisements I get,
January,
2025
Footnote: Yes, I know I posted the same video twice, but I’m “over thirty,” a “member of the older generation,” —heck, I’ve become a “senior citizen,” and I just don’t know how to erase a Youtube once it’s on my site.
