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What Internet Backbone is that? The one that closed in 1995?
by sgt101 12y ago
What Internet Backbone is that? The one that closed in 1995?
- sp332 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone A decentralized, redundant network among many companies.
- sgt101 12y agoOk, it's in Wikipedia! But, backbone's are normally singular and control a single organism. I think that the metaphore held fine until 1995, but that which has come since then does not look, act or smell like a backbone to me... (see what I did there with the metaphore thing :))