Things you’re not supposed to notice on TV…
(to borrow from Slashdot: from the suspension-of-disbelief dept.)
I’m a few weeks behind in watching Jericho, so I’m using part of the weekend to catch up.
This episode is too old to be much of a spoiler issue, but I’ll cut it just in case.
Outside an Internet cafe, five days after nuclear explosions are reported in a number of cities in the US, Lisa Whalley sees Skylar Stevens (both teenage girls) typing away at a laptop computer, but the computer is stuck at an IE “This page cannot be displayed” error.
Lisa: “Hey, Skylar! Any luck?”
Skylar: “No. I really need to check my email, I mean, my parents could have tried to contact me from New York.”
Lisa: “Well, have you tried typing a straight IP address?”
Skylar: “A what?”
Lisa turns the laptop toward her, types some numbers in the address bar, and presses Enter. The laptop just beeps.
Lisa: “That’s weird…”
Skylar: “What?”
Lisa: “Well, the Internet was built by the military. It’s supposed to survive a nuclear war.”
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We’ll ignore the mild inaccuracies about the origin of the Internet, but I don’t think the Internet succumbing to a nuclear blast is really their problem.
You see, 027.750.304.001 isn’t a valid IP address.
