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== In popular culture ==

''[[The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]'' made multiple references to "Techno" Ted Stevens's "series of tubes" description;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/sokn5t/party-pooper |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214040414/http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/sokn5t/party-pooper |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 14, 2015 |title=Party Pooper |work=The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |date=July 12, 2006 |publisher=Comedy Central}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/uo1ore/headlines---internet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512182120/http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/uo1ore/headlines---internet |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 12, 2014 |title=Headlines – Internet |work=The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |date=July 12, 2006 |publisher=Comedy Central}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/4arc5x/net-neutrality-act |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140501060216/http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/4arc5x/net-neutrality-act |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 1, 2014 |title=Net Neutrality Act |work=The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |date=July 19, 2006 |publisher=Comedy Central}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/57mjqg/phone-call-with-ted-stevens |title=Phone Call with Ted Stevens |work=The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |date=April 16, 2007 |publisher=Comedy Central}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> as a result, Stevens has become well known as the person who once headed the committee charged with regulating the Internet. "I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word 'tubes'," Stevens said to reporters in response to ''The Daily Show''{{'}}s coverage. When asked if he would think about going on the show to debate [[Jon Stewart]], Stevens replied, "I'd consider it."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thelevithorntonexperience.newsvine.com/_news/2006/07/27/303169-senator-ted-stevens-will-defend-his-tubes-remarks-on-the-daily-show |title=Senator Ted Stevens will defend his "tubes" remarks on The Daily Show |publisher=Yahoo! News |date=July 27, 2006}}</ref>

[[Google]] has included references to this in two of its products. [[Gears (software)|Gears]]'s [[Dialog box|about box]] once read "the gears that power the tubes" and [[Google Chrome]] had an [[About URI scheme|about:]] [[Easter egg (media)|Easter egg]] at the address <code>about:[[internets]]</code> which displayed a screensaver of tubes (if [[Windows XP]]'s <code>SSPIPES.SCR</code> is installed) with the page title "Don't Clog the Tubes!"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lifehacker.com/5045164/google-chromes-full-list-of-special-about-pages |title=Google Chrome's Full List of Special about: Pages |publisher=Lifehacker |date=September 3, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/09/03/aboutinternets/ |title=about:internets |publisher=Robert Accettura's Fun With Wordage |date=September 3, 2008}}</ref> When "about:internets" was entered on a computer lacking that screensaver, the tab displayed a gray screen with the page title "The Tubes are Clogged!" This [[List of Google April Fools' Day jokes#Easter Eggs|Easter egg]] was removed as of the 2.0.159.1 release.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes/releasenotes201590 |title=Release Notes: 2.0.159.0 |last1=Larson |first1=Mark |last2=Kersey |first2=Jason |date=January 26, 2009 |work=The Chromium Projects |access-date=January 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308180100/https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes/releasenotes201590 |archive-date= March 8, 2013}}</ref> TheBefore December 6, 2022,<ref>{{cite web|title=chrome.storage|url=https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage#limits|access-date=December 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206005448/https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/storage|archive-date=December 6, 2022}}</ref> the documentation for developing Chrome extensions includesincluded a near-verbatim quote of the "series of tubes" paragraph when describing its ''chrome.storage'' class.<ref>{{cite web|title=chrome.storage|url=https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage#limits|access-date=August 11, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150811091803/https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/storage|archive-date=August 11, 2015}}</ref>

The quote is referenced in the game [[Grand Theft Auto V]]. When using the game's parody of [[Google]], eyefind.info, the header may read, "It's like a series of tubes".

== Tribute ==

[[Alexandra Petri]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote a humorous article entitled "Sen. Stevens, the tubes salute you" on August 9, 2010 after [[death of Ted Stevens|Stevens's death in an airplane crash]]:<ref>{{cite news |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/08/senator_stevens_the_tubes_salu.html?waporef=obnetwork |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120716042702/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/08/senator_stevens_the_tubes_salu.html?waporef=obnetwork |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 16, 2012 |title=Sen. Stevens, the tubes salute you |work=PostPartisan |publisher=The Washington Post |first=Alexandra |last=Petri |date=August 10, 2010}}</ref>

<blockquote>And as people remember him, make ill-timed jests, and muse on his legacy—all in real time, in great profusion—I worry that they are disrupting the ability of people elsewhere to receive their Internets. But for us in the Facebook generation who weren't around for the first plane crash and know the [[Gravina Island Bridge|Bridge to Nowhere]] primarily as an [[Saturday Night Live|''SNL'']] punchline, the senator's legacy is in that series of tubes.</blockquote>

== See also ==

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[[Category:Net neutrality]]

[[Category:2006 speeches]]

[[Category:Ted Stevens]]