It's one of the reasons I love them. A ball of insane, esoteric, baffling, confusing cruft, layered in a century long onion, with connections to the very basics

It's one of the reasons I love them. A ball of insane, esoteric, baffling, confusing cruft, layered in a century long onion, with connections to the very basics of telecommunications. At any moment, both the simplest interface and the most complex, both the beautiful speckled black void of the night sky, and the horrific gaping maw of a Lovecraftian beast.