Send your heart's desire an e-mail and ...
The words are broken down into ASCII codes and each specific character given a binary value between 0 and 127. The sentiments now read “73 108-111-118-101 121-111-117 46″ These are further broken down into the now matrix-familiar series of 1’s and 0’s. “011010010010000001101100011011110111011001100101″ the computer passionately speaks...
These strings of binary are then grouped into small digital packets conforming to the Internet Protocol v6 standards. The packets are sent at the speed of light from server to server and finally show up reassembled in your loved one's inbox.
But before..there was the popular ink to parchment..... and another way to say...
To deliver messages of love or heartbreak from Harlem to the Lower East Side, from Canal Street to the Planetarium, even from Manhattan to Brooklyn itself... these messages traveled quite literally via a series of tubes.
A puff of air, and your words are there
waiting for hands
to reveal the weight
of any given situation....
via
