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Sometimes the Message gets lost in the Medium

In the mid 1960's Marshall McLuhan coined the famous phrase that the medium is the message. Due to the minor detail of the Internet not actually being properly invented in the mid 1960's, he didn't take into account instant messenger tools such as Yahoo! Messenger which can sometimes lead to baffling conversations such as the one I've reproduced below.

Read the rest of this post at http://www.vicchi.org/2009/12/08/sometimes-the-message-gets-lost-in-the-medium/