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[[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> The documentation for developing Chrome extensions includes 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>

[[YouTuber]]niall comasPyrocynical had a running series on his channel named "A Series of Tubes" (ASOT), the theme song of which is a remix of Stevens' words. The said remix song dates back from 2006 and was created by a user of the name manish on the [[YTMND]] website, where it garnered tremendous popularity.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ytmnd.com/sites/529547/profile|title = Ytmnd - you're the man now dog!}}</ref>

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