How the internet actually works

cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 383 points –
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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 wasn't bad, he was a fucking idiot on so n many other things though. Then he got indicted.