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Comcast: Clueless about the Internet

04.02.2011
You may have seen a video making the rounds this week: featuring hosts Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel, and Elizabeth Vargas discussing this weird thing known as the Internet. Like, what that little "a" with the ring around it is for (@) and how it's pronounced (at? about? around?). Witness the sparkling dialog:

Bryant: "What is Internet anyway?"

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Katie: "It's that massive computer network, the one that's becoming really big now."

It's an amusing little clip that shows us just how far we've come in 17 years. Kudos to Katie for at least knowing something about the Internet in 1994, even as Bryant shows himself to be an empty suit. Why am I not surprised?

Apparently, NBC was not as amused -- so much so that it not only tried to , but also delete the employee who posted it. According to the Washington Post's Rob Pegoraro -- or rather, -- the as-yet-unnamed NBC employee who shared that video blast from the past on YouTube has been fired. Because if overpaid meat puppets didn't know anything about the InterWebs two decades ago, the terrorists will win.