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cantstopthesignal @sh.itjust.works

1y ago

How the internet actually works

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It’s NOT a big truck!
- Ted "Bridge to Nowhere" Stevens made CSPAN worth rage watching.
  
  Was this analogy actually wrong, though? The internet is more like tubes than like trucks. Tubes captures the concept of bandwidth, as well as infrastructure needing to be in place prior to sending anything.
  
  It makes me so happy this is still a known meme.
- That is this referencing?

Sometimes it’s pigeons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

OK, that's better XD

I'm a simple man. I see PBF, I upvote.

This, Jen, is the internet...

a series of rick rolls

The internet is a series of tubes!
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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