How to Break the Internet
Ever wondered what it would take to bring down the Internet? Well, not much. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow...
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There's a giant network of machines that contains the sum of all human knowledge and connects us as a species that we have become quite reliant upon. We call it the internet. and it is actually, and upsettingly, kind of fragile, and there are plenty of ways to break it. Actually, you might not have noticed but there were widespread internet outages just last year thanks to a glitch in what is known as the Global Routing Table, which is basically a map of the internet. Every device connected to the internet has an address, and when you use the internet, you need to send data back and forth between those addresses. But to get to its destination, that data needs to be bounced around to a few different places along the way. And to make sure it gets...
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There's a giant network of machines that contains the sum of all human knowledge and connects us as a species that we have become quite reliant upon. We call it the internet. and it is actually, and upsettingly, kind of fragile, and there are plenty of ways to break it. Actually, you might not have noticed but there were widespread internet outages just last year thanks to a glitch in what is known as the Global Routing Table, which is basically a map of the internet. Every device connected to the internet has an address, and when you use the internet, you need to send data back and forth between those addresses. But to get to its destination, that data needs to be bounced around to a few different places along the way. And to make sure it gets...
