This is how the internet works… get ready….
Copy an paste by Jors Truly:One click downloads, say, a picture from a cloud server. The request is picked up by your computer, stuffed into a packet (a cluster of electrical pulses), stamped with the address of the cloud server; and blasted out of your house, or wherever you are. Along with trillions of packets all around it, your request reaches hub computers that can read the address and pass it from hub to hub along the least congested route, until it reaches the sea.
Here, a landing station illuminates an underwater fibre optic superhighway cable, transforms your request from electricity to pulses of light, and fires it off. Your download photo request travels under the sea on a 10 gigabyte per second wavelength of light along with 10,000 other download requests, video streams and emails. In the same fibre are up to 70 other message wavelengths, and there are eight fibres in each cable.
Thanks to this, your requests can travel several thousand kilometres in a fraction of a section. Their destination is one of over 100 million server farms, found anywhere from Sweden to the US Midwest. These servers would quickly heat up as they crunch numbers, so they use around 1.5% of the world’s electricity just to keep our data cool. A digital picture is around 5,000 times the size of a data packet, so to send it back the server has to smash it into 5,000 pieces which will then travel back to you in little bits before reassembling itself. Simple, really.
Comments (35)
Yet ALS and cancer can't be remedied yet.
Mind boggling just the same Luke.
Good morning from my side of the world.
REALLY it would take me to read your blog few times, BUT, I feel lazy right now for reading again
THANKS anyway for telling me,.....amongst others ........
lots of comments that what you need
as you notice I am in a playful mood today,
Life is too short to bother about the finer detail at this stage. As long as my ol lap top is humming I'm happy, even if I can't by a pill to cure the common cold..
Late afternoon here, have a great day ahead.
if I leave out the megabites, thank you
great movie
that is why music is so attractive, to produce, to be able to be categorize in so many terms that people enjoy..
trance, house, electro. pop, post modern, classical............
I WONT INSIST NOW, cheeky
I let you be, did enjoy the chat, hope you have a good day
NZ You’re welcome, hope you have a good day too.
Have a great evening...and thanks for sharing all that data info
But I am sure the technical geniuses on here will appreciate it all...
Kitty, I loved the pic... so cute and apt..
So that's how it works!!...never thought about it...how amazing it is technology...who knows what else will be possible in our life time...it is hard to keep up!!
Now which was the yellow butterfly ......