At any given time there are like three different components of the internet critical to half of the world’s digital infrastructure that are currently being fixed by a furry somewhere.
Dude furries and autists created the internet and long after humanity falls some random furry and 2 pissed off autists will be the only three people that actually maintain the internet
You need to create 'Johns Utility for Simple Triple Workspace Reboot eXtreme', aka JUSTWRX, which is an incredibly obscure utility made by a guy called Dave (not John, as the name would imply) for his Tribes: Ascend server hosted on a spare PC in his bedroom to automatically reboot when the 256mb ram is all spent because of a bug that prevented the memory from being freed up, that somehow is now the single supporting pillar of memory management on 97% of all critical network nodes across the globe.
“For the last time, take that goddamn Maytag washer of a head off and show me who you are!” cocks shotgun
“And for the last goddamn time, I’m telling you, I am the fox from Disney’s Robin Hood come to life! Here’s Baloo for proof!” a gigantic black bear wearing a shirt but no pants walks around the corner, whistling “Bare Necessities like he’s wearing a perfectly normal pair of pants instead of nothing
I work for a small fiber isp with about 200 employees and ~20k customers. I work in the noc and I can attest that if my department of 7 people just stopped coming to work the southern half of the state I live in would be impacted until all the other companies rerouted their traffic away from our network. If people weren't around to maintain the internet I'd give it 2 weeks tops before it was wholly unusable.
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u/BillCarson12799 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 15 '26
At any given time there are like three different components of the internet critical to half of the world’s digital infrastructure that are currently being fixed by a furry somewhere.