Andrew Blum: What is the Internet, really?
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2012
- 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
Who else is here to make a summary for their BCIS class?
Shout out to San Jac
@@BigchillBeats999 bro y’all all live in Texas ? I go to phs😭
@@johnw3736 Aye, which school you go to like south, central?
@@nahriahrivera pasadena high school wack. pasadena memorial is better
@@Sebastian-wr4ym went to south, over at UHCL now.
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 worked in a factory where they make these under sea fiber optic cables. I was in quality control testing these babies. Very cool job actually.
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.
"Light goes in on one side of the ocean and comes out on the other side of the ocean" I genuinely came here to learn about the internet but I feel like this is some sort of poetic fusion between the art of words and the art that is technology as we know and understand it. This alone is a form of art.
It's just waxing lyrical about the internet, basically playing with words. A squirrel chewing on your internet...really, is this comedy? How about a squirrel chewing on my internet's medium?
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?
Brilliant! Blum is right, once the workers cover the manhole with sand, we forget how physical the internet really is.
Loved the talk. Great job.
such an enlightening video, so fascinating!
Beautiful presentation
I enjoyed this talk. Thank you :) I want to know more about how we are all physically connected. Well done :)
how are under ground/sea, wires, involved with 'wireless', broadband, internet?
Wow, what a perspective!!! This man was quite successful in explaining the physicality of something as abstract as the internet. Really enjoyed listening to him
It's amazing to think more then a hundred years ago we where doing the same thing with telegraph cables.
I really enjoyed this talk!
I love you Sir...Andrew Blum was too amazing!!!
Imagine having to take the same classes twice this is my second time watching this video 😭
It was pretty cool to witness a cable landing, in Guam, back in 2009...
came here for my bcis class but dam he cute
+me168716 lol no kidding
girl he gay af smh lol
me168716 girl I thought the same too lmao
j j loser
lol same do you go to san jac in Houston?
WOW, it's so incredible
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
That's really amazing
I don't understand the negative comments. This is fascinating! Too bad it was cut off, I would have liked to see the entire lecture.
Thank You!
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
Incredible!!! ♥
I liked this talk. People should try to know a little more about everything.
Trust me I know. This is the way i think, and it sometimes leaves me with a head ache..
they also provide you with wireless service! ISP=Internet service provider, meaning Internet in many forms of access
A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
Good explanation to
Informative
Have you ever wonder what Internet is all about. Is it something physical or mere illusion? In this wonderful talk, the passionate young man Andrew Blum vividly describes about his fact-finding mission with touch of humor. Good Talk. Good Subject. Delightful.
Thanks!
Its a network
Did I say Servers where tiny? But it actually depends on the servers actually. You can turn any desktop computer in to a server.
good job
They're all… 42… the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
with that the title of this video the scope of his speach could have been broader.
Wow I had no ideia.
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
I agree. Do you still remember the old tune? I barely do, but it was very annoying too iirc.
I'm here for BCIS
Wired people should know something about wires! It makes sense
Ohhhh, i loved that quoted
I'm in love with his face...damn😊😥😥
So nobody noticed the guy sleeping at 6:22?
I am not sure if you're talking about Vsauce or the It Crowd, but I like them both. The It Crowd episode was really funny.
amazing
Cool
Cool
Yooo the heck are you doing here? Love your videos
I came here looking for a "series of tubes" joke. I was not disappointed.
Satellites in space too. Oh my!
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.
quarantine learning check :))
It's pretty mind boggling to me how a bunch of cables transmitting electricity (probably) can be transformed into such a monumental thing as the internet. Think of yourself. You are a bunch of neurons firing in your brain, but the sum of all these electrical impulses and chemical processes that's going on inside you, gives rise to an entirely different thing. The fact that the internet exists, physically, is a cool thought in my opinion, and one that most people usually don't stop to consider.
Exactly how i conceptualized it in my head
Amazing
Fully agree, have no idea why they haven't changed it, everyone seems to hate it.
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.
Preach!
Can someone summarize this for me its for a assignment for school lol
same lol
No one?
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?
9:55 cigarette mention censored.
I work in telecom, and I say this guy has just discovered America!
- there has been ocean cables since before the Internet. I belive the first Atlantic cable was used for Telegraphy
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.
Yes
I'm glad TED exists, but damn...why the hell junk my sub box with this silliness?
Great talk! You forgot to plug your book ;)
Here from bcis class, summary?
But how about the sattelite and radio technology , it is not all physical , some are wave or energy
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
"...Internet changed everything, from shopping to dating.."
xD Does anyone read this before actual presentation?
Am I the only one kinda shocked that they have fiber cables running through the ocean?
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.
Funny how everyone in the crowd at 8:30 is falling asleep and one girl smiles like crazy heh.
Optic fibre cable!
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.
Omg that image is really scary
It's a series of tubes!!!
The point he makes is very simple - which doesn't make it irrelevant of course.
lol, please tell me you've watched the it crowd
Could u tell me whats an it environment then?
I never use the internet...NEVER.
LOL
hahahahahahahaha wow classic
Like you will stop using it
Me too
Hahaha
im just here for the BCIS cource lol
The internet is a series of tubes!
Tell us more about the squirrel.
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.
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
Interesting
It's magic Joel,it's magic
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.
It was probably just a really long blink...
Você está aí do outro lado 🌍👍
Guy @8:29 rofl =P
Screenshot for the lazy - imgur.com/F6X9bHF
I think it was a warning that one day a giant sea squirrel will eat our internet!
By the way Tata is the worst internet provider in India.
It got a little emotional at the end, I must say.
Internet is series of tubes!
True
yeah, cant remember the outcome, but i remember it being a lot :-p, what did you think of it anyway?
This man is simply wrong. THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF TUBES!
Andrew Mckay RUclipss?
hahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah