Twitter, the spine of the internet
The Internet is a messy affair. When you think about how it works – pictures and text are broken into tiny little packets of data and are passed between switches and routers and they all find their way to the place they’re destined for, it’s nothing short of black magic and it’s a wonder that it even works at all. It’s all spread out, with bits poking out here and there, it’s been modified over years, hacked, built in layers, different parties have come up with new standards while old standards have been left for dead in the web’s gutter. It’s a right mess. A big beautiful mess riddled with imperfection.
It was never intended to be a nervous system for humanity.
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