The Internet Explained

The Internet Explained
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Finally, a technical diagram that's actually accurate! The internet isn't some magical series of tubes - it's a precarious tower of hacks built on the backs of sleep-deprived C developers and powered by cat photos.

Love how the foundation is literally just "ELECTRICITY" with Linus Torvalds somehow holding it all together. And that breakdown of internet traffic? 50% cats, 25% games, 20% scams, 4% Rust devs being smug, and a measly 1% actual knowledge. Sounds about right.

My favorite part is "web dev sabotaging myself" - nothing like spending 6 hours debugging only to find you misspelled a variable. Meanwhile, unpaid open-source developers are literally holding up the entire structure while AWS collects the check.

Next time someone asks me to explain how the internet works, I'm just sending them this instead of giving my usual "it's complicated" speech.

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