
The Great Splice
Today we had an Internet outage. People from AT&T Fiber told us it’s a big one. They said their had to repair a large backbone cable. I imagined how it might look like: two ends of a large cable with hundreds of fiber lines from each end, and they had to splice all them together. What would happen if they made a mistake and I started receiving somebody else’s Internet feed? I would see different movies and TV programs, my Facebook and Instargam feeds would show me different pictures and articles. etc. What else could go wrong? ...