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Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog () vaxination ca>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 14:49:25 -0400
On 13-05-15 14:07, Owen DeLong wrote:
If we, as network engineers can't agree on the nature and definition of the internet, how can we possibly expect the media to understand it?
When someone cuts a cable in the meditarenean, the media doesn't say "the internet has crawled to a snail's pace", it says "internet connections in the middle east are very slow". If DNS servers at Comcast fail, one doesn't say "the internet has suffered a failure". Generally , if one uses the expression "the internet", it would generally mean the generic term which encompasses the whole internet. So you can state "Syria is disconnected from the internet". If root servers went down around the world, then one could state that "the internet has suffered a failure".
Current thread:
- RE: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet, (continued)
- RE: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet james (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Jean-Francois Mezei (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Christopher Morrow (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Valdis . Kletnieks (May 15)
- RE: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet James Jun (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet David Temkin (May 16)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Brett Frankenberger (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Jean-Francois Mezei (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Christopher Morrow (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Owen DeLong (May 15)
- Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Jean-Francois Mezei (May 15)
- RE: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet Adam Vitkovsky (May 16)