POV: I'm on my third coffee and you just asked me how the internet works

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Contents

00:00 Sponsor disclaimer
00:04 Intro
01:53 Part 1: The Miracle of DSL
03:05 Part 2: The Loopback Network Interface
05:14 Part 3: IPv6
08:20 And now a message from our sponsor
09:55 Part 3 Episode 2: IPv6 (again)
11:03 Part 4: IPv4
12:32 Part 5: DHCP
14:28 Part 6: NAT
19:02 Part 7: Carrier-Grade NAT
20:18 Thanks

References

Home Page Documentary Trailer Directed by Doug Block (Passion River Films):    • Home Page Documentary Trailer Directe...  

asdfmovie4 (TomSka):    • asdfmovie4  

How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables (Bob Dormon for Ars Technica UK) https://arstechnica.com/information-t...

Windows 95 Dial-Up in 2024 (NostalgiaWindows)    • Windows 95 Dial-Up Internet in 2024 #...  

Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet (Cloudflare blog) https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2...

ARPANET & Logical map of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

ZOOM 56k External Serial Modem Overview and Demo (dosdude1)    • ZOOM 56k External Serial Modem Overvi...  

How Broadband ADSL Works (Computerphile)    • How Broadband ADSL Works - Computerphile  

Hampster Dance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampste...

Web Design Museum: Old versions of YouTube https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/galle...

Ievan Polka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ievan_p...

Trippy: traceroute & ping tool in Rust https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy

Geoipsed: Fast, inline geolocation decoration of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses written in Rust https://github.com/erichutchins/geoipsed

SDV's BGP map graph tool: http://bgpmap.sdv.fr/

Nautilus: A Framework for Cross-Layer Cartography of Submarine Cables and IP Links https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/36...

Wireshark: GUI packet sniffer https://www.wireshark.org/

Dominique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique