The Internet's Precarious Tower Of Dependencies

The Internet's Precarious Tower Of Dependencies
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The internet is just a glorified Jenga tower of tech stacked on top of each other. At the very bottom, we've got ASML making the chips that power everything. Then Intel, AMD, and Nvidia making processors while hardware companies like Apple, Dell, and HP build machines around them. The Linux Foundation quietly holds everything up while DNS systems point traffic where it needs to go.

Meanwhile, unpaid open source developers are literally carrying the weight of modern digital infrastructure on their backs. AWS and Cloudflare are making billions while V8 and WASM engines power "something happening in the web." And let's not forget Angry Birds flying around Microsoft's chaotic contributions to this technological house of cards.

Remember: the next time your app crashes, it's probably because someone removed the wrong block from this precarious tower of dependencies that absolutely nobody fully understands!

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