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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | This is a joke about Squirrelmail, a web-based email client that was for many early users their first webmail service. Before Squirrelmail, users had to check email by opening a terminal via telnet or dowloading it via SMTP. Organizations enabling it in their servers allowed their users as well to check mail from any web browser, even in a setting like Iternnet cafés where telnet or email clients were not available. | |
− | + | While Squirrelmail was an existent service, there has never existed a "Squirrel-phone" or similar sevice, a living squirrel being not an appropiate creature to mantain a phone call. | |
− | + | Is there here people young enough not to know the tones of the POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service)? | |
− | + | "Riing, Riing" is the calling tone - someone is calling you | |
− | + | The beeping noise of the alt text "bip bip bip bip" means that a call is not established and not available because the receiver is up. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | + | {{comic discussion}} | |
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[[Category:Squirrels]] | [[Category:Squirrels]] | ||
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