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ph0rque
on Jan 17, 2015
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“What happens when you type Google.com into your b...
the time-to-live value for a datagram reaches zero at which point the packet is dropped
Someone should write a Victorian-style novel on the hard, short, but virutous life of a packet.
praptak
on Jan 17, 2015
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Or a multilevel story-within-a-story type where the browser tells the HTTP server a story about an OS who tells a story about keyboard interrupts and network packets and so on.
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Someone should write a Victorian-style novel on the hard, short, but virutous life of a packet.