What is the Internet? Really, what makes the Internet the Internet? It’s not just agreeing on a set of rules and protocols. It’s not just the equipment and connections. It’s the universal participation, we don’t have a hand full of large networks, we have one globe spanning Internet. The Internet is the prime proof of Metcalfe’s Law, that a network’s value is the square of it’s nodes. This week’s episode is about the Internet down to the packet, how it works…. and sometimes doesn’t.