Very fascinating piece. This shows the underappreciated job of maintaining the subsea cables needed for the Internet to function and how extreme the conditions can be. Definitely a peculiar life for the folks in that trade... also shows the repairs are clearly underfunded and that not enough people are embracing this career. And now, add geopolitics to the mix, it should make you wonder how all of this work at all and for how long it'll keep working.
Very cool idea. Lots of history in there! There were things I even forgot about.
Interesting experiment... with surprising results in places. What stays available or not is not necessarily what one would think. It's not that easy to be flexible and available across regions.
This is an excellent and needed work of contextualization. Ten years after, looking back at how the Snowden Revelations impacted the internet and the work done by the IETF. It also shows there is plenty more to do...
Interesting way to look at the problem, definitely thought provoking.
Excellent piece which summarises the big design decisions behind the Internet. It's very didactic, also highlights the flaw toward the end. This is reference material.
Interesting take, let's see if it's true and things will decentralize (or at least audiences fragment, the author seems to confuse both) more in the future.
The come back of the Dead Internet Theory? Getting more and more probable by the minute indeed thanks to the newer wave of generative AI text and art.
Despite all its flaws and the regular claims of its death, email keeps being a central part of our collective infrastructure indeed. Clearly it's still here to stay.
Always amazed when such important routing systems are reached through very insecure means.
Another very important common turns 25 this year. Happy birthday Internet Archive!
Interesting explanation of a major BGP mistake.
Interesting question, and luckily the top answer is coming from someone who put in the work and memory to do a thorough history recap. Interesting stuff.