Reddit reviews Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

For a while there I'd use the Wikipedia Book Creator to aggregate a bunch of articles on a certain topic and then download it to my eInk e-Reader to peruse in bed until I fell asleep.

One such topic was early computing up through the Microcomputing era and the 1977 Trinity.

At that point of history I was reading Empires of Light about the AC/DC war, Where Wizards Stay Up Late about the birth of ARPANET, Dealers of Lightning, about PARC, Commodore: A Company on the Edge (about the rise of Commodore through the PET, slaying TI, and faltering after the C64), and Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, which was enlightening, even though it was written for someone who couldn't tell a modem from a hub.

I love Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. It’s great in that it goes to physical locations that are important to the Internet, and described them. If you’re a Service Provider Engineer, many will be familiar but described through the eyes of someone fairly non-technical. If you’re an enterprise Engineer, some will be familiar, and some will be all new. Really fun, quick read.

Incredibly oversimplified, but not entirely inaccurate. Good job. You might be interested in a book I posted above, it's called Tubes.

http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-Journey-Internet-Andrew-Blum/dp/0061994952

Edit: I'm impressed that you were able to come up with such a clear explanation of networking given your age. You might have the type of mind that would do well in the networking industry. Do yourself a favor and seek out more information on the intricacies of network design and implementation.

Not too far off actually.

There's Tubes: A journey to the Center of the Internet.

check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/0061994952/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=the+tubes+internet

it explains the Internet and how it came to be. This will give insight into what it would take to build a 2nd one.

This was awesome, thanks. I work just a few blocks from 60 Hudson and 32 6th (My company gets their internet from Rainbow Broadband, streamed from the antenna on the top of 32 6th) and have always wanted to see what the data centers and switch infrastructure inside actually looks like. But I'm not holding my breath.

If anyone else is interested in this stuff, I recommend reading Tubes by Andrew Blum. He worked for years to get exclusive looks inside the workings of these exchanges, and then tells you all about it. According to his book, the main entrance for network cables into 60 Hudson is a hole a few feet wide in the basement that every tenant has to pay for space in, making it the most expensive tiny sliver of real estate in Manhattan.

There was an interesting book from a few years back called Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum (http://amzn.to/25pGbGG) which discussed a lot of this. interesting read.

Yeah, I’m quite sure you don’t understand how the internet works. I’d recommend the book Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061994952/

Andrew Blum's Tubes tries to cover much of the same ground for the physical layer of the Internet. I found it an interesting read.

For any of those interested in learning more about ISP's, Interconnects, Peering, and how the internet actually works, I've found Andrew Blum's book, Tubes, to be absolutely amazing. I've re-read it three times now. http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/0061994952

Great response, for those looking Andrew Blum has an interesting book [Tubes](Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet https://www.amazon.com/dp/0061994952/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_LkXMybX93FKGH) which is basically a full book ELI5 if anyone is interested in reading more. It looks like it can be had on amazon used for about $2.

http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/0061994952

http://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/news/article/pressure_on_for_western_connectivity432

> In a county with the highest median household income in the country - where more than 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic flows - a large area of western Loudoun is without any real broadband Internet connectivity.

I used to live in western Loudoun. I moved to get FiOS :)