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The internet suck doesn't it?
The internet suck doesn't it?
The History of the Internet
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The Internet as it exists today is really just a tangled jumble of crap thrown together out of necessity, running on top of an outdated infrastructure that wasn't designed to handle it. IPv4 is running out of space, despite having been patched and repatched over and over again. The protocols that we're using were designed decades ago and were never meant to handle the types and quantities of data we're shoving through them.
In a nutshell, from a network engineer's perspective, the whole system is jury-rigged and I'm amazed that it hasn't fallen apart yet.
"... the whole system is jury-rigged and I'm amazed that it hasn't fallen apart yet ..." But it's still going. Survived spam, Y2K, Google and Facebook so far. Hope WF doesn't take it down.
Y2K was an insignificant problem blown way out of proportion by the tech-illiterate media, which then grew into hysteria once the general public got ahold of it. I had a computer running Windows 95 back then, unpatched, and I was sitting in front of it when midnight hit. Not a single problem.
@Alex Yep. I had a new Windows 2000 box back then I think, but still I was amazed that nothing fell apart, then I really thought social sites and streaming video was going to kill the net a few years later, but noooo it's still going. Legacy code designed for 16 bit processors printing text on monochrome monitors running gigabyes of RAM and two or three monitors and full video.
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