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There and Back Again: A Packet - How's the Internet Work?

submitted by marinara

1 decade 2 years 5 months 1 week ago

internet

YouTube Description:

How does the Internet really work? The World Science Festival (http://worldsciencefestival.com/) created this short video explainer as a setup to Internet Everywhere: The Future of History's Most Disruptive Technology, a sold-out program featuring Internet pioneer Vint Cerf of Google, MIT's Neil Gershenfeld, lawyer and Internet advocate Elizabeth Stark and Alex Wright, director of user experience at The New York Times. The video lets you ride shotgun with a packet of data—one of trillions involved in the trillions of Internet interactions that happen every second. Look deep beneath the surface of the most basic Internet transaction, and follow the packet as it flows from your fingertips, through circuits, wires, and cables, to a host server, and then back again, all in less than a second.Watch the full program: http://worldsciencefestival.com/webcasts/internet_everywhere

5 Comments

Oooooo, pretty lights.......

charliem says...

Oh man, they totally forgot the DNS resolution as a first step....or even an ARP resolution for first hop if the network was just turned on.....

Trying to explain networking in 3 min is sad. It makes me a sad panda.

>> ^charliem:

Oh man, they totally forgot the DNS resolution as a first step....or even an ARP resolution for first hop if the network was just turned on.....
Trying to explain networking in 3 min is sad. It makes me a sad panda.

Why be sad that a video does a good, concise description of how the process works, at a high level?

Why be sad that it doesn't describe every single little bit and therefore make people who don't care for the intricacies tune out?

It's a nice little video, and perfect for the *internet.

Adding video to channels (Internet) - requested by spoco2.

Moving this video to marinara's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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