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It's articles like this that remind me the tools I take for granted like BGP, traceroute, and viewing the structure of the Internet at a fundamental level, are
by jsmthrowaway 12y ago
It's articles like this that remind me the tools I take for granted like BGP, traceroute, and viewing the structure of the Internet at a fundamental level, are a complete mystery to most people outside the industry. Yet everyone depends on the end product every day.
Little bit humbling.
- doorhammer 12y agoSeconded. It's also humbling to think how such common tools can be used in a new way to get novel and useful insight into global politics by a relatively small group of people. It reminds me how I'm constantly underestimating how powerful a lever for the mind computers can be.
- afafsd 12y agoI feel the same way about quantum mechanics.
- Ecio78 12y agoIt's also an article like this how much journals' titles could be sensationalized...