The Internet isn't virtual it's physical

The Internet isn't virtual it's physical.

there's no virtual, its an abstraction

are there any countries that have got no internet and internet users at all?
I think some South-East Asian and Central African countries may not have

Cool

You are just a file on my computer I downloaded and cached you somewhere on my hardisk.

>doesn't connect to my country
mfw

*saves your post for later use*

So much points of connection to Libya

North Korea

oh, yeah, i've forgotten about them

These are just Internet backbones not landlines.

the boys at Centro Nacional de Computacion told me that we were connected to the brazilian backbone. i guess they lied to me since there's no line from Brazil to here

traffic can be routed to whatever backbone, they're not direct links

some of russia's traffic can go to europe thu chinese link/backbone etc

they work like a mesh

The network should optimize traffic for the shortest route, tho.

its not optimal but sometimes used as far as i know

also links may have different loads

They sort of do but only for foreigners and high up officials. The common people use and intranet.

Yes but these government officials use Chinese Internet. There's no such thing as North Korean Internet. Just a national network of computers (intranet)

>americans probably think internet is better than intranet

its not
well at least intranet was always much nicer

I think the Earth is large enough so that traffic from, say, Moscow, through China - Pacific Ocean - America - Atlantic Ocean - Europe will introduce noticeable latency. Circumference of Earth = 40,075 km, so let's say 30,000km for that route, 1/10th of second at the very least.

Sup Forums servers are hosted in California

you can sent torrent traffic there where latencity is not important

or maybe use it as a reserve route

i just know that such routing is used periodically

interesting

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