Re:Map of the Internet
by na85 on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:26AM
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>We can also play this a little longer up to the point where cables are not really cables anymore because of fibre infrastructure and how wavelengths are multiplexed.
Indeed we can, and we'd soon arrive at my original point again which is that conflating things like "the web" and "the internet" or TCP and SDH or $thing and $related_thing might win you some imaginary internet points on HN but these things exist as distinct concepts for a reason, and that reason is because the distinction is relevant to certain groups of people.
Indeed we can, and we'd soon arrive at my original point again which is that conflating things like "the web" and "the internet" or TCP and SDH or $thing and $related_thing might win you some imaginary internet points on HN but these things exist as distinct concepts for a reason, and that reason is because the distinction is relevant to certain groups of people.