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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): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RkSg4opPM
asdfmovie4 (TomSka): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYNdUM2gRsg
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables (Bob Dormon for Ars Technica UK) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-the-internet-works-submarine-cables-data-centres-last-mile
Windows 95 Dial-Up in 2024 (NostalgiaWindows) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvuyiUw2DJw
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet (Cloudflare blog) https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
ARPANET & Logical map of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
ZOOM 56k External Serial Modem Overview and Demo (dosdude1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1LKAp71XUA
How Broadband ADSL Works (Computerphile) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwtGfyna62I
Hampster Dance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance
Web Design Museum: Old versions of YouTube https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/youtube-2008
Ievan Polka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ievan_polkka
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/10.1145/3626777
Wireshark: GUI packet sniffer https://www.wireshark.org/
Dominique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique