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diff --git a/.md/about/whereami.md b/.md/about/whereami.md index cc07720..2d72588 100644 --- a/.md/about/whereami.md +++ b/.md/about/whereami.md @@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ 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" /> + *Image of a switchboard courtesy of [Wikipedia contributors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Telecom_switchboard_and_operator.jpg)* + 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. diff --git a/about/whereami.html b/about/whereami.html index 4b869e4..67cd391 100644 --- a/about/whereami.html +++ b/about/whereami.html @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ <p>Since you are on this page, you're presumably lost. That's <em>ok</em>. I don't really get all this stuff either. Let's start with some easy stuff.</p> <p><em>You're on the Internet</em>. Known to some as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes">series of tubes</a>, but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. In basic sense, your computer called mine, and mine answered with directory full of pages.</p> <p>The way you get here is through a device you have at home called a router, which literally does what the name implies--it routes signals to where they need to go to make things go beep. In the 60s and 70s, routers tended to be people-based and would spend their time plugging cables into and out of ports so calls could connect.</p> -<p><img src="/static/human_router.jpg" /> <em>Image of a switchboard courtesy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Telecom_switchboard_and_operator.jpg">Wikipedia contributors</a></em> 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 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 makes it so you can get lost on some person's home page.</p> +<p><img src="/static/human_router.jpg" /></p> +<p><em>Image of a switchboard courtesy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Telecom_switchboard_and_operator.jpg">Wikipedia contributors</a></em></p> +<p>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 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 makes it so you can get lost on some person's home page.</p> <p>In a way, you could say you've made it to a place my router took you to. Not my home router of course--that one sucks.</p> <p>I'm mooching of someone else's, also known as a Virtual Private Server. These companies run whole bunch of servers, hook them up on a bulk connection and rent them out for people to run blogs about cats and porn sites.</p> <p>I'm getting lost on your question though, so where are we exactly?</p> Binary files differ |