What is the Internet?

2021-03-30 - Tuesday - 12:12 AM - Tech Log

What is the Internet? For all you old people out there, the Internet is like a Landline Telephone Answering Machine but much faster. An answering phone replays audio. It is not live. It happened in the past. Likewise, when you are looking at a web page, you are looking at a place you went to, you went to a web page, but your Internet could be out. If you already accessed the page, it may be saved in the RAM, the cache, HDD, SSD, etc. But you may not be there currently. You would need to refresh the web page before thinking your Internet is still working. Remember if a web page is already loaded, then that means you have no idea if the Internet is working right now in the same way you don't know if a person is still alive based on an answering machine message. See, it was done in the past and some websites may not show you whether or not things changed or not. And that is just the tip of the iceberg to how the Internet works.