HackerHaus » Tech http://hackerhaus.com one man's ramblings about stuff Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:00:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 how the internets work http://hackerhaus.com/2008/04/30/how-the-internets-work/ http://hackerhaus.com/2008/04/30/how-the-internets-work/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 06:40:44 +0000 Michael http://hackerhaus.com/?p=7 Continue reading → No related posts.]]> 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.

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