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There are a variety of subscription-based amateur press associations, bulletin boards, and other community-specific services available through your household pneumatic mail terminal. The daily connection of individuals with specific, unusual interests will enrich the foundations of previously disparate subcultures. Aside from "flat" media (drawings, photographs, paintings, etc.), small reels of videotape, audiotape, motion picture film, and even flip-books can be distributed pneumatically for artists exploring music and animation.
With automated deliveries available as often as three times a day, take care not to just hang around the house waiting on the next update!
(no "series of tubes" jokes, please)
With automated deliveries available as often as three times a day, take care not to just hang around the house waiting on the next update!
(no "series of tubes" jokes, please)
Category All / Comics
Species Wolf
Size 1280 x 989px
File Size 636.4 kB
This is so great. I remember when I was a kid I visited a relation's workplace, which was a newspaper office. They had one of these pneumatic messaging systems and it was the most awesome thing ever. It seemed so futuristic, and I really did think that it would end up in people's homes eventually. Sort of a shame it didn't, but then, the Internet does a pretty good job. Awesome work man!
Thanks! It's fun to speculate on how things would be different if certain technologies had been adopted earlier. Modern TV was pretty much all ready to go by the late 30's, but WWII put the kibosh on it, and RCA was wanting to make a home video recorder by the late 50's, but the components were too expensive...I could go on for hours. There's also delayed technologies, like how South Africa banned TV until 1976, and our current battle for net neutrality. Geek out!!
We have one of these tube systems at the local drug store, I'm always amused by the noise they make 83 This is a very interesting idea, I never stopped think how hard it would be to do the stuff we do now just a couple of decades ago. I bet in a short thirty years they'd be wondering how we could be happy using such simple stuff. Though, I wonder what the next level of technology would be...
We just had one installed at a new hospital in our hometown, and they still exist at one of our local "big box" stores for when there is too much money in the cash register. I think genetic engineering and nanotechnology will change our world greater than anything else. But when I get my DNA therapy at the hospital, it'll still be delivered by pneumatic tube.
I was thinking complex computers that receive input directly from the brain as well as send output directly into the mind. Though you'd have to be especially careful that your brain isn't filled with spam. It is comforting to know the cheerful sound of pneumatic tubes will still exist in the future 83
Hahah, this is too awesome. It may be from lack of sleep, but all of it makes me want to giggle in such a way that could possibly rupture my psyche.
This comic has made me realize something: having a personalized report on your progress sent to you at regular intervals would be AWESOME. "GOOD AFTERNOON Redacteur, YOU HAVE 2 NEW FOLLOWERS, 10 COMMENTS AND 36 SUBMISSIONS. TODAY IS A NEW DAY, DO SOMETHING KIND FOR A STRANGER!"
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This comic has made me realize something: having a personalized report on your progress sent to you at regular intervals would be AWESOME. "GOOD AFTERNOON Redacteur, YOU HAVE 2 NEW FOLLOWERS, 10 COMMENTS AND 36 SUBMISSIONS. TODAY IS A NEW DAY, DO SOMETHING KIND FOR A STRANGER!"
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This, this is a triumph. I keep coming back to it. It's not just the adorableness and the Belgian flavor of your style, but what's been getting me most is the top two panels on the second page—it feels like there's such strong characterization there that I can just about hear what his voice sounds like.
Much love!
Much love!
in our capatolistic society though would it be a pay by canister or a package deal thing, would it be one single air/canister/message payment or would each reqire its own bill.
Great drawing though. its an intriguing non AC world.
Signed your anti-monetarists
F. M. Mayhew
Great drawing though. its an intriguing non AC world.
Signed your anti-monetarists
F. M. Mayhew
hehe
I was down at the SF forum, a collage Science Fiction club I was a member of years ago.
In log book 13 I found an entry I did back in 1981. I got 5 comments. I have no memory of me writing that entry nor of the people that commented at the time.
Time really makes one forget.
I have no idea why this comic made me remember that time at the reunion but there it is.
I like nematic tubes, there use in the movie Brazil
I was down at the SF forum, a collage Science Fiction club I was a member of years ago.
In log book 13 I found an entry I did back in 1981. I got 5 comments. I have no memory of me writing that entry nor of the people that commented at the time.
Time really makes one forget.
I have no idea why this comic made me remember that time at the reunion but there it is.
I like nematic tubes, there use in the movie Brazil
What I like most about this depiction is how it's void of the crassness you often get from many online community sites. When one has to put more effort into communicating with others or receiving information, one is more likely to be appreciative and polite. You're not as likely to see trolls or wasteful comments with a system like the one depicted in your comic.
Patience is a virtue often lost in this day and age.
Patience is a virtue often lost in this day and age.
I'd feel bad for the army of (likely underpaid) workers who'd have to compile those updates. And three times a day!
That being said, it's too bad pneumatic tubes never become more popular. Having people walk house to house delivering mail seems so inefficient. But mostly, I just want to hear the "fwoosh" sound whenever I'd get new mail. ;)
That being said, it's too bad pneumatic tubes never become more popular. Having people walk house to house delivering mail seems so inefficient. But mostly, I just want to hear the "fwoosh" sound whenever I'd get new mail. ;)
Wow, to think that such technologie was state of the art a not so long time ago makes really wounder how live has changed.
From tube operator to mail server operator.
But tinkering with mechanical parts is way more fun
On the other side a lot of ppl would perhaps think more before making a reply/mail nowadays if you have to wait for the next valuable tube time, the evil of new technology.
From tube operator to mail server operator.
But tinkering with mechanical parts is way more fun
On the other side a lot of ppl would perhaps think more before making a reply/mail nowadays if you have to wait for the next valuable tube time, the evil of new technology.
Oh my goodness this is wonderful. I love the charm this has in putting a satirical viewpoint on the use of the general use of the internet and this website in particular. The best part of all is how you put so much thought into making this as feasible as possible. I also like the way you took care to add in the little details too. Both in the image and your description. t all comes together in such a way that this seems like an actually usable service. I also got a chuckle out of the name of the machine. Pneumatic F5. lol
I have several of those flip-books! My favorite is one showing a humorous encounter between a kitten and an adult cat. The kitten is sitting back on its haunches, taunting the cat by waving its paws in front of his face. The cat appears not to react, but then after a few seconds, he suddenly tackles the kitten like a leatherheaded linebacker! It's a riot!
Real Technology. The French had this by the mid 1900s, although perhaps not in there homes. La "petit bleu," the little blue (card) could be sent between any two points in Paris within about an hour. There is a great overview of this technology in the book "The Victorian Internet."
Just imagine coming home from vacation. You think your digital inbox gets full!
Just imagine coming home from vacation. You think your digital inbox gets full!
LOL!! That's pretty freakin awesome. ^^ I love the retro and kinda getting into steampunk, so this is right up my alley. And with steampunk its not that specific thing I like, but the integration of time periods and old technology being used to do stuff like this. Very much like you put it. Retro-technology. ^^
I used to contribute to an APA! Every month I would get the printed, photocopied, and occasionally mimeographed pages, send my comments and replies, see them next month, and wait another month for responses :D
I think it's a great example of how people won't let themselves be limited by a lack of technology. If they want to talk, they'll talk.
I wish it had come by pneumotube though :o
I think it's a great example of how people won't let themselves be limited by a lack of technology. If they want to talk, they'll talk.
I wish it had come by pneumotube though :o
Tubes. They had them at Banks for a while, until they moved the ATMs to teh drive up window. I hear they are going to make something of a comeback in certain areas. I'll have to find the Wired article on that though. I doubt we will see a return of the 3 foot diameter freight tube though.
nice..lol
Check out Rocket Squad. Daffy and porky get shuttled around the office in tubes..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImDx4tgk89s
garrard/gent
Check out Rocket Squad. Daffy and porky get shuttled around the office in tubes..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImDx4tgk89s
garrard/gent
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