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Apr 30 2008

how the internets work

Published by Michael under commentary, tech

I’m going to shamelessly steal something from Einstein and contort it to serve my own self-aggrandizing purposes.  Since he’s dead, I don’t think he’ll mind.  Even if he weren’t dead… I think I could still kick his ass.

You see, the internets is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.  This is how you get ones and zeros.  Squeeze/meow = one.  No squeeze/no meow = zero.  Do you understand this?   And WiFi operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

That is all.

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