Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.
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Lol all the comments talking about being here for BCIS course
Well I’m not here for BCIS but I’m here for a Digital humanities class😂
Yes
Yup! LMFAO
8:29 Got a sleeper.
ooo I shall now find, screenshot, and publicly SHAME THEM!! lmfao
can you imagine waking up and finding out you'd missed out on such a great fkn presentation tho?? I'd be pissed.
Just finished reading his book Tubes and its amazing, was really nice to see some of the pictures he took during this talk and visually see the things he witnessed in the expansion of the internet.
I hope in my field of study some event will inspire me to explore and discover answers to curiosities presenting themselves in the most interesting of manners.
Has such an event taken place yet
I indeed am too curious of what magnitude the event would have to posses in order for your inspiration to occur?
I'm not sure why, but I feel stupid after watching this video. I am amazed at how interested this guy is in something so obvious (to me). And also how enthusiastic he is in sharing this information with us, like a child discovering something new, and sharing it with his parents. Not sure the TED audience is the right audience for this.
I think he’s trying to be as fun and engaging as possible, so that people who’d never otherwise concentrate long enough to understand this from a lecture or textbook actually do. This is awesome.
Wired people should know something about wires! It makes sense
Ohhhh, i loved that quoted
They're all… 42… the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
He wanted to see it, and touch it. It's very important that we know how things that we use, work. What makes a notification on your phone possible, and more importantly, how the world works.
-Cheers
loved this.. really insightful .. i was aware of just how physical the internet is.. but in this incredibly visual time we live in.. it takes seeing the guy coming out of the sea holding the internet cable first, before you can truely imagine a guy coming out of the sea holding the internet.cable
Can someone summarize this for me its for a assignment for school lol
same lol
No one?
Why is everyone slamming this guy, I bet you 95% of the population have no idea about the physicality of the internet. He may be just scratching the massive surface of the internet but at least he is trying to understand. We get it, some of us are way more intelligent at networking and computers in general, but you don't have to look down on others because they didn't know about it.
Because most people probably had to watch this for class
I'm here for BCIS
Here from bcis class, summary?
I enjoyed this talk. Thank you :) I want to know more about how we are all physically connected. Well done :)
Prior to the internet people related to other people using pieces of paper (books, letters, newpapers, etc.). But we didn't have people getting freaked-out about looking at rectangles of paper all day the way people get freaked-out about looking at screens.
Loved the talk. Great job.
Sometimes I wonder if the TED guys are ever going to figure out that cutting to angles of the gaping jaws of random audience members is jarring and unnecessary.
Am I the only one kinda shocked that they have fiber cables running through the ocean?
I don't know how big the IT crowd is elsewhere but the UK, but it is definitely worth watching, best modern sitcom we have
interesting video but when I search what is the internet I wanted to find out how it was found where it stems from why do we use it the way we do what else could we use it for what is the basic of the web
+young jynx it doesnt stem from anywhere its decentralized that was the whole point of the picture he showed in the beginning
But how about the sattelite and radio technology , it is not all physical , some are wave or energy
Guy @8:29 rofl =P
Screenshot for the lazy - imgur.com/F6X9bHF
Did I say Servers where tiny? But it actually depends on the servers actually. You can turn any desktop computer in to a server.
they also provide you with wireless service! ISP=Internet service provider, meaning Internet in many forms of access
I love you Sir...Andrew Blum was too amazing!!!
To my opinion it is crazy to think that each computer connected to the Internet in the world is physically connected to mine by a tremendous number of possible path.
It was pretty cool to witness a cable landing, in Guam, back in 2009...
I'll do my best. However, I would most likely refer them to an adult learning class on web surfing at the local high school.
This man is simply wrong. THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF TUBES!
Andrew Mckay UA-cams?
hahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah
I came here looking for a "series of tubes" joke. I was not disappointed.
Interesting talk, but I don't understand one thing. Who actually thought that internet wasn't a physical thing? Did people think that it's based on what, air, somewhere on the actual cloud? Do people think that television isn't physical, thinking that it just "appears"? Is someone who doesn't know that products in supermarkets are delivered there, and don't really grow in their warehouses?
Internet is another way of delivering digital content through the use of a massive web of physical infrastructure, which is why it was labeled WWW. It's not just a cool name; it represent what it ACTUALLY is. There's nothing to think about here. How is that not obvious?
I loved the quote in the end, which is a completely different topic, by the way, and not what the whole talk was about. And I'm not trying to sound smart here - I might not be getting something here - but why does this obvious thing even needs to be explained for adults? Serious question.
The short answer is I was wondering where the stuff on my samsung tablet was coming from.
+Thomas
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Never fails, the classic pretentious "But come on, do people really not know things???" youtube comment
Well actually... Yes. I thought until about 2 days a go that the internet and Wi-Fi were the same thing, that the Internet was like radiowaves. It shocked me when I found out that is was physical, excuse my ignorance but not everyone is an expert in everything. I was also shocked because I looked at a map that was representative of the world and could see where the internet had gone when I was talking to my parents in England from India a few months earlier. And I felt stupid because when I was there it was the start of monsoon season and the internet didn't work hardly at all because of the weather. The fact that the telephone poles had fallen down made sense as to why we couldn't have any internet but i didnt think about it properly. I actually put the fact that the internet doesn't work down to us using a dongle there but having "real WiFi" everywhere else. And yes it's also stupid that I don't know because I'm 19 and you'd think 5 years of IT lessons would teach me how the internet works but nope. (I'm a Y2K baby and everything as well) I have extensive knowledge of Microsoft word though, yay 🙄. So no, not everyone knows everything.
Shut up true briefcase, your name says it all, you’re a moron, we’re all here to learn
Funny how everyone in the crowd at 8:30 is falling asleep and one girl smiles like crazy heh.
By the way Tata is the worst internet provider in India.
the internet doesn't weight anything?!?! *ahem* Vsauce: How Much Does The Internet Weigh?
What is the internet? A series of tubes.
The internet is in a cave in the rocky mountains. I saw it on south park, they are always factual on south park.
Fully agree, have no idea why they haven't changed it, everyone seems to hate it.
Trust me I know. This is the way i think, and it sometimes leaves me with a head ache..
I really enjoyed this talk!
Now i wanna now where is the Intenet cable on Puerto Rico.
+Roberto Ramirez Yo tambien
There's several cables connecting to Puerto Rico: San Juan (7 cables), Miramar (2), Isla Verde (4), Punta Salina (1) > submarinecablemap.com
I felt the presentation was a little unfocused in a way, kind of like a 'What's the point?' feeling, but it was amusing and interesting nonetheless. I think the guy is a great speaker as well.
I think it was a warning that one day a giant sea squirrel will eat our internet!
What's an internet?
-Sent from my Iphone
Thank You!
- there has been ocean cables since before the Internet. I belive the first Atlantic cable was used for Telegraphy
Great information, but his point seems to be pretty confused
im just here for the BCIS cource lol
WOW, it's so incredible
The point he makes is very simple - which doesn't make it irrelevant of course.
when they put it in the manhole, what happend after that? does manhole go somwehere? Where is the source? where is the data int he fibers comings from? Are there many sources?
with that the title of this video the scope of his speach could have been broader.
the internet is not a big truck, you can't just dump something on it. its a series of tubes.
I'm in love with his face...damn😊😥😥
Wow I had no ideia.
I was wondering, if we got reset from a mountain falling from the sky again would the Internet information still be here? It's great to know that some mad man built a multi billion dollar industry connecting cables around the world.
That's really amazing
a squirrel chewed on my internet - hilarious :)
lol, please tell me you've watched the it crowd
Tell us more about the squirrel.
Interesting story about how undersea cables are connected to shore.
Unfortunately this does not answer the Question "What is the internet", directly.
ISP = Internet Service Provider. Let's break this down: what did he just talk about? The internet is cables. If an ISP provides your internet, then they provide your cables.
i just watched that specific episode where they say the internet weights nothing, but have YOU seen that Vsauce video above??
Wowzer, super cool! Great work. Ahead of his time. I wonder what he thinks about the internet 11 years later. Or what he'll think about the internet 11 years from today.
Incredible!!! ♥
Server farms and lots of wiring... That is the internet. But there are some also server satelites and wireless transmition of data... It's not as fast of has big, but the military have it... Maybe one day, we will to, and THAT is definitelly a "cloud".
someone make a summary, i dont feel like watching all of it
coolfrijoles girl what did you write 😪
Thus guy will discover satellites transmitting wireless data from space and he'll write a book.
Maybe one day he'll know that much of our physical world is due to coal and iron. Maybe.
The internet is the beginning of a level 1 civilization communication tool . ( Michio Kaku )
It was probably just a really long blink...
honestly, nothing against this nice guy, with an admirable passion to know more about its surroundings, however maybe some day a squirrel will chew up its power cable, and then he will discovery from where its electricity comes from, and why is he not living in a cave.
Para que pones título en Español si el vídeo está en inglés, ni siquiera tiene subtítulos.
Good
Optic fibre cable!
The Internet. Is not a thing it's a collection of things. Like a flock of birds.
amazing
9:57 Awkward silence waiting for a bigger laugh that never comes...
Internet is series of tubes!
"Wired people should know something about wires"
Well Said!!
It's magic Joel,it's magic
a place to argue with trolls & watch videos that cost money elsewhere.
Optical fibres are bi-directional.
Informative
Wanna skip the intro? When watching, press your right arrow key 3 times!
shoutout BPED II-1
The internet is a series of tubes.
I felt bad watching this on my laptop screen.
It's a series of tubes!!!
Soo internet is a jumble of fibres connecting a virtual world...
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Not realy, because we could send the signal the other way around :D
The "real" world was always ugly and boring (in most places)
The creation of the internet marked the start of a new and better world for us to live in.
I couldnt imagine my life without the internet.
You can do so many things on it.
Things you absolutely cant do in the real world.
The internet is so CHEAP and thats the main reason why everyone is on it.
You can do SO MANY THINGS on it for a low price (and getting lower)
Thats my take on it.
Preach!
Cables are super interesting and this is not irony.
It is.
When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering why squirrels have such an issue with the internet. Was it because of their furiness, was it their buck teeth or was it simply because the internet is a bad thing? So he set out to find the answer- on his voyage of discovery he found many mind expanding things but the most memorable discovery was that the centre to the internet consists primarily of pure food particles planted there by ghosts
the internet is a series of tubes
so wait.... this is just overgrown telecom basically? sounds like the cables that made telegrams possible
rather confusingly i started talking bout vsauce then about the it crowd, i have a habit of changing subject mid sen yeah i really like it as well, not my favourite, the one with countdown is probably my favourite one or the one with space star ordering. basically i love the it crowd *nerd face*
The internet is a series of tubes!
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