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Only us engineers still see the internet as the internet.

To most of humanity, what it really is is the media, a communications medium, and a few other things. We sw engineers are the roofers, plumbers, and drywallers keeping this invaluable, rickety, incumbent-infested, ethically iffy edifice upright. Of course the work is grim, if you look at it in this (IMO correct) light.



Yup, I often joke about this, with colleagues too! Hack upon hack, paid for in chocolate bars and coffee, the internet is what it is.




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