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azurelunatic) wrote2015-09-02 11:04 am
azurelunatic) wrote2015-09-02 11:04 am
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From the XKCD survey:
When you think about stuff on the internet, where do you picture it being physically located? Even if you know it's not really how things work, is there a place you imagine websites and social media posts sitting before you look at them? If so, where is it?
A heavily air conditioned white room with large racks of equipment and a zillion cables and blinking lights. Some of the equipment is running programs that have been touched by people I know. The room is in a building that has one or two pieces of large construction equipment digging outside, ready to take down both of the redundant connections to the rest of the internet. There is an angry man with no cranial hair and a lot of tattoos with a mallet in a control booth, berating and occasionally beating people who interfere with those connections.
http://xkcd.com/1572/
A heavily air conditioned white room with large racks of equipment and a zillion cables and blinking lights. Some of the equipment is running programs that have been touched by people I know. The room is in a building that has one or two pieces of large construction equipment digging outside, ready to take down both of the redundant connections to the rest of the internet. There is an angry man with no cranial hair and a lot of tattoos with a mallet in a control booth, berating and occasionally beating people who interfere with those connections.
http://xkcd.com/1572/
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(I just did the survey. When I got to the vocab question, I realised fairly early on (before breaking out the dictionary) that he was trolling, but then had to sit down and ascertain exactly which words he was making up to see who said they knew what they meant, and which ones were real things I didn't know. By my count, 7 were made up, 4 were real words I didn't know, and two of those were proper nouns, which is cheating. So I had fun, in other words.)
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