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diff --git a/.md/about/whereami.md b/.md/about/whereami.md index cc07720..109039c 100644 --- a/.md/about/whereami.md +++ b/.md/about/whereami.md @@ -26,14 +26,16 @@ need to go to make things go beep. In the 60s and cables into and out of ports so calls could connect. <img src="/static/human_router.jpg" /> +<center> *Image of a switchboard courtesy of -[Wikipedia -contributors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Telecom_switchboard_and_operator.jpg)* +[Wikipedia contributors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Telecom_switchboard_and_operator.jpg) +*</center> + Fortunately, we figured out that was dumb and made robots do the job for us. Internet companies, governments, and anyone else with enough money and influence bought huge routers and hooked them all up to talk to each other. Then they convinced us all to go out and buy a router from our ISP of "choice" -so we could all send cat pictures to each other seamlessly. We got rid of +so we could all send cat pictures to each other seemlessly. We got rid of phones, replaced our phone with our IP address and email, just to ironically end up back at phones again. All of our devices serve, or at least can serve, as a router in some way, and all these little robots talking to each other |