I was hoping somebody would challenge and explain it. I just copied it because it struck me as a bizarre claim.
it's not the physical devices themselves that define the Internet it's the TCP/IP protocol that exists on them that defines it.
It really doesn't matter, but I think it's well accepted that the term Internet refers to hardware. That would weigh nothing anyway. A protocol is abstract and can't be touched, or have any physical properties like weight.
Protocol exists as read only memory on the physical devices and as data packets in transit both of which are formed from atoms which have a weight... Which physical devices do you define the Internet as? Isp switching? DHCP servers? Any device?
The physical devices I would define the internet as is whatever pieces of hardware around the world are the servers that contain everything that exists on the internet.
It doesn't need to. He's right. It's pretty much everything, not even limited to servers but the clients you and I are using now are part of it and so are our routers, Ethernet cables and phone lines. Doesn't matter if it's DHCP or whatever, no idea why you asked that unless it was just to demonstrate that you know about those things.
All of these devices and servers serve a purpose without been Internet enabled. Internal networks been an example of that. It seems pretty bizzare that you would define them as the Internet so vaguely when they might not be used for the Internet at all.
I don't see the problem. Why can't they be more than one thing? I'm a member of mankind, but I'm also a member of not606, and several other groups and demographics, they aren't mutually exclusive.
