{"id":17584,"date":"2012-08-11T17:18:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:49:48","slug":"how-the-internet-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/how-the-internet-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Internet Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yazoomills.com\/custom-mailing-tubes\/colored-shipping-tubes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-109371 size-medium\" title=\"How the Internet Works\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes.png?resize=150%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"How the Internet Works\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes.png?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes.png?resize=75%2C50&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/tubes.png?w=913&amp;ssl=1 913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The <a title=\"World Science Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/worldsciencefestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Science Festival<\/a> created this short video explainer on how the Internet works, as a setup to <a title=\"Internet Everywhere: The Future of History's Most Disruptive Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/worldsciencefestival.com\/events\/internet_everywhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet Everywhere: The Future of History&#8217;s Most Disruptive Technology<\/a>, a sold-out program featuring Internet pioneer <a title=\"Vint Cerf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icann.org\/en\/groups\/board\/cerf.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vint Cerf<\/a> of <a title=\"Google\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a> (<a title=\"NASDAQ : GOOG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NASDAQ-GOOG\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GOOG<\/a>), <a title=\"Massachusetts Institute of Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">MIT<\/a>&#8216;s <a title=\"Neil Gershenfel\" href=\"http:\/\/ng.cba.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neil Gershenfeld<\/a>, lawyer and Internet advocate Elizabeth Stark and Alex Wright, director of user experience at <a title=\"New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorktimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the blurb on <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>, the video lets you ride shotgun with a packet of data\u2014one of the trillions involved in the trillions of Internet interactions that happen every second to see how the internet works. Look deep beneath the surface of the most basic Internet transaction, and follow the packet as it flows from your fingertips, through circuits, wires, and cables, to a host server, and then back again, all in less than a second.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewrBalT_eBM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is another video that explains how the Internet works from <a title=\"Ericson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ericson<\/a>, which was around when I was a newbie networker.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnJO9ypv3m8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131111023147\/http:\/\/www.wired.com:80\/business\/2012\/04\/epicenter-isoc-famers-qa-cerf\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vint Cerf: We Knew What We Were Unleashing on the World | Wired Business | Wired.com<\/a> (wired.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131224105409\/http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13506_3-57352967-17\/vint-cerf-internet-access-isnt-a-human-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vint Cerf: Internet access isn&#8217;t a human right<\/a> (news.cnet.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These videos let you ride shotgun with a packet of data one of trillions involved in the trillions of Internet interactions that happen every second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2197,77,1303,15,1301,1302,598,1330,53],"class_list":["post-17584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-2197","tag-internet","tag-ixc","tag-networking","tag-packet","tag-routing","tag-vint-cerf","tag-world-science-festival","tag-youttube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131632,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584\/revisions\/131632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}