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title: Ode to the Common Man
date: 2008-04-07T21:40:45Z
modified: 2008-04-07T21:40:45Z
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categories:
  - browsers
timestamp: 2008-04-07T21:40:45Z
tags:
  - browsers
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Overheard at an airport within the last seven calendar days. Cletus and Earl are not their given names, mostly because I don’t know the real ones.

**Cletus**: Dude, you’ve gotta check this new, uh, internet thing out.
**Earl**: What is it?
**Cletus**: Fox-something, and it’s awesome.
**Earl**: Better than what I got?
**Cletus**: Oh yeah. Hell yeah. Let me show you.
**Earl**: How’s that?
**Cletus**: Well, it’s like a zillion times faster, for one, but then it’s also got these things…
**Earl**: Wait, what did you just do?
**Cletus**: It’s like another internet thing, within the original internet thing.
**Earl**: Wow.
**Cletus**: Yeah, all on one page, see?
**Earl**: Yeah.
**Cletus**: And it’s still a zillion times faster, and it’s free.
**Earl**: You’re shitting me.
**Cletus**: Nope. Click the little house button, you can get there.
**Earl**: Wow.
**Cletus**: Yeah.

Airports are perhaps more helpful than any other single venue for reminding me of what an echo chamber I live in.