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Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by hota_mazi on Monday March 18, 2019 @02:27PM (#19423683)
The Internet works in hundreds of different ways, message passing, RPC, REST, store and forward, propagation, etc...
Re:Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” ... by scroot on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:41PM (#19426944)
It's all made possible because of the protocol which is a kind of message passing. If a node somewhere on the Internet doesn't receive a packet for whatever reason, the whole network doesn't come crashing down.