Intellectual
The internet
A long read
The internet is a real place you could touch
Your guess
When you save a photo to "the cloud," where does it really go?
The internet feels like magic. It is not.
It is built from real wires, cables, and machines. You could walk up and touch those machines. They sit in real rooms in real cities.
All of it is the internet's infrastructure.
infrastructure
The real machines, wires, and buildings that make a big system run.
Sources
- Cloudflare, "How does the Internet work?"
- TeleGeography
- Andrew Blum, Tubes
- Cloudflare Learning Center, "What is a packet?"
- Tim Berners-Lee, 1989 proposal (World Wide Web Foundation)
- Mozilla MDN Web Docs, “Using HTTP cookies”