A web comic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Scene: A drawing of a stick figure standing in front of a desk with a computer screen and a chair, speaking into a phone.
“You want your cousin to send you a file? Easy. He can email it to-…oh, it’s 25 MB? Hmm…–Do either of you have an FTP server? No, right.–If you had web hosting, you could upload it…– Hmm. We could try one of the megashare upload sites, but they’re flaky and full of delays and porn popouts.–How about AIM Direct Connect? Anyone still use that?–Oh, wait, Dropbox! It’s this recent startup from a few years back that syncs folders between computers. You just need to make an account, install the–Oh, he just drove over to your house with a USB drive?–Uh, cool, that works, too.”
Caption: I like how we’ve had the internet for decades, yet “sending files” is something early adopters are still figuring out how to do.
Hover text: Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on a friend’s laptop, Tim Bersers-Lee sheds a single tear.
Comic by xkcd. Described by BlindGadget.
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