| | CBS, that's the Columbia Broadcasting Service, right? It was an old 20th century television and radio franchise of some kind, was it not, back before the internet. You know what WIFI is, right? Like if you don't have an iPod or Droid but a big laptop, and you want to connect, you have to goto a cafe, right? Well, this was like that, except that each box needs its own wire. Wires were connected to "antennas." An antenna is a wire frame up in the air that "catches" radio waves. If you know your history, you know that Ethernet started like this to connect the Hawaiian Islands. Anyway, this was all before fiber optics and digital cell phones.
So, this "CBS" was a network-like thing that provided content to television and radio stations. (Radio was like an early early iPod with only sound and no pictures, like back in 2001 but radio goes back to like 1901...) Anyway, it was like Huffpo except that instead of you connecting to it, they found you, but you could turn it off if you wanted.
So, this "CBS" is like some kind of Roman Re-enactment, but instead of wearing leather and bronze and reading from "scrolls" in Latin, they sit on chairs and tell you their ideas in a serial way that you cannot "scroll" past or click through. And there is no way to post a comment, so it is all one way.
It's kind of cute, but, I fail to see why anyone takes it as a serious medium for the presentation of ideas. Ed, can you explain this better>?
(Edited by Gaius Marius Mercurialis on 1/17, 7:03pm)
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 1/17, 7:04pm)
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