This was on my home page a LOT<\/b> of time ago, found it again today among old stuff<\/p>\n
Q:<\/strong> But what *IS* the internet?<\/p>\n A:<\/strong> It’s the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric closure of the relationship “can be reached by an IP packet from”. [From Craig Simon on the IETF mailing list<\/a> which I followed around 2000 A.D., where he stated that he did read it on “someone sig line”.<\/em>]<\/p>\n They were funny times. This was on my home page a LOT of time ago, found it again today among old stuff Q: But what *IS* the internet? A: It’s the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric closure of the relationship “can be reached by an IP packet from”. –Seth Breidbart [From Craig Simon on the IETF … Continue reading “The Internet”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kill-9.it\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n–Seth Breidbart
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\n[and then again, this post was originally written on Jan 22nd, 2009 :D]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"