One thing I'm always impressed by is what the internet is - what it most fundamentally is. It's nothing but two or more people connected by a line being able t

One thing I'm always impressed by is what the internet is - what it most fundamentally is. It's nothing but two or more people connected by a line being able to send a reliable message of 0 or 1 to each other. That such a thing that would revolutionize the world and nearly every aspect of peoples' lives is something that would have sounded unreasonably hyperbolic in the lifetime of many people still alive today. The most unremarkable sounding achievements are somehow often what lead to the most revolutionary achievements and developments. On the other end of the spectrum the most revolutionary sounding achievements seem to invariably sputter off into nothing.