From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Regarding those pipelines of light, it just occurred to me they have something   
   of a resonance with the internet.  For example, large amounts of data gets   
   piped from computer to computer, along the route passing from node to node.    
   For example, let's take    
   this very post I'm writing now.  It's starting as a "scratch pad" area on a   
   web page in front of me on my laptop screen.  Yet once I "send" it, it becomes   
   a "post" that travels from this laptop to a larger hub (I happen to know where   
   a goodly bit of the    
   area data flows through a closet on a breezeway in a nearby apartment complex)   
   then to a "network" (such as AT&T, Comcast, Google Fiber, etc.) and thence to   
   the "cloud" where this post gets stored away on a drive in some server farm   
   somewhere, then    
   eventually (as time passes) gets booted farther and farther back into "long   
   term" storage drives (where a piece of data is lucky if it ever gets called up   
   again, ever.)  For example, I could pull up a dream post using the groups   
   filter that is over 5    
   years old.  That post still exists somewhere.  I've been posting dreams since   
   the 1990s, possibly as far back as the LATE '80s, using AOL for a time, but   
   some of those posts are very difficult to find, if they ever even got   
   transferred during some buyout    
   or business merger along the way at some point in the past.  Just for grins &   
   giggles, try finding anything from "silkdick@aol.com" and see what pulls up.    
   At one point there were over 30,000 posts to be found. But now??   
      
   At any rate, those pipes of light could be "streams" of data, flowing through   
   "fiber optic" channels.  Somewhere in the world exists the largest central hub   
   (nexus) of real-time (current) internet traffic.  I'm wondering if that dream   
   is in some way    
   related, such that real life data streams were viewed as the pipes of light (?)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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