Posted on 04/11/2008 1:06:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Probably a pile of unmatched socks there too.
Are they talking about the redundancy of the internet?
It’s way over my head.
Hopefully some tech savvy FReepers will come along and pontificate.
What in the world do you have to ‘double-click’ on the internet? Am I missing something here, or is this just incredibly poorly researched?
I have sent myself an email before and it took 6 hours to receive it. Where the heck did it go?
I don’t complain about the internet. I am surprised it works at all.
Must be underpants gnomes surfing the web.
“Must be underpants gnomes surfing the web.”
I am having to reread this reply to get the full impact of the .....sheer audacity of your reply. Brilliant and insoucient.
Possibly it will become an oft quoted line. A part of the Freeper lexicon.
Congratulations.
It has to do with the way packets are routed. When you connect to another server, the messages “hop” from router to router. You send your message to the router at your ISP, which looks around for other routers to get to the destination. Routers are supposed to advertise the other routers they’re connected to, so in daisy-chain fashion the message eventually reaches the destination. The problems arise if the any of the connected routers in the list is offline- when that happens your message is supposed to be sent to a different router instead but quite often it reaches a dead end.
The email protocol is designed so that if the destination server is not available it will keep trying, so sometimes your emails can be sitting on the outgoing server waiting for the host on the other end. Most mail servers are configured to try every few hours for a couple of days before giving up.
Just as an odd guess, are you using Comcast?
I once received an e-mail 10 minutes before I sent it to myself.
“I don’t complain about the internet. I am surprised it works at all.”
A customer once asked me about personal computers and their consistency/reliability. I answered as follows:
Whenever I turn on a computer, it posts, starts up, gets to a desktop, all of the programs work and I can actually get on the internet, I am amazed.
His repsonse was, “I was going to say that the difference between a novice and a professional is that the professional is surprised when something goes right.” :-)
“I don’t complain about the internet. I am surprised it works at all.”
A customer once asked me about personal computers and their consistency/reliability. I answered as follows:
Whenever I turn on a computer, it posts, starts up, gets to a desktop, all of the programs work and I can actually get on the internet, I am amazed.
His repsonse was, “I was going to say that the difference between a novice and a professional is that the professional is surprised when something goes right.” :-)
I had one of these moments shortly before logging in.
Lost somewhere west of Lake Titticaca.
When I first got into this business I assumed that when one clicked on a link to a web page and after visiting that page then clicked on another link to some other site somewhere else on the internet that the connection collapsed and started over from the originating computer. That’s what common sense told me.
Uh-uh.
For example, if you visit a site in the UK then visit a site in Australia the search for the site in Australia starts in the UK and is directed to Australia from the UK so that your connection to any given site can literally go around the world even if the site you are currently visiting is literally next door to you.
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