Traceroute isn't real, I like this, sounds like something I'd say. But it is real, it's definitely real, it's installed on my laptop, it's probably installed on

Traceroute isn't real, I like this, sounds like something I'd say. But it is real, it's definitely real, it's installed on my laptop, it's probably installed on yours. I know fairly well how it works, understand many of its short comings, but I still love a traceroute, as does absolutely everyone even most people who truly understand it, or it really wouldn't exist. I am a visual understander, a picture paints a thousand words, even a distorted unreliable picture with a handful of details that are sometimes useful hiding amongst a great deal of irrelevant nonsense is sometimes better than nothing at all. It's not an ugly hack it's a beautiful elegant solution to the problem of not knowing how your traffic is mostly probably being routed.