The virtual world???
by AndyC on Mar.09, 2007, under Computers, Technology
As this post from Boing Boing shows, the so-called virtual world isn’t really all that virtual. There’s miles of cables and billions of dollars of exotic hardware stringing it all together behind the scenes. Play with the traceroute command from your PC sometime to see the join the dots that has to happen for every bit of data you bring back from a web site. Try typing “tracert www.yahoo.com” in a command prompt window, without the quotes, and hit return.
I’m on Facebook, too!
