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How the internetworks 互联网如何运作 Mapping the tubes; 绘制网路全景; Contrary to expectations, the internet has aheart of cable and steel 和预期不一样，互联网有一颗由电缆和钢铁组成的心脏 Tubes: A Journey to the Centre of the Internet. By Andrew Blum. 《网路：通往互联网中心的旅程》，作者安德鲁布朗姆。 Goverments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come fromCyberspace, the new home of Mind. So begins John Perry Barlow, once a lyricist for theGrateful Dead and now a cyber-libertarian, in a tract he penned in 1996, entitled, ADeclaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. It is a poetic summation of the commonimage of the internet as an ethereal, non-physical thingan immanent Cloud that is at onceeverywhere and for ever on the far side of a screen. 此书开篇引用了约翰佩里巴洛于1996年写的一篇文章中的一段话：工业世界的统治者们，你们是由实体和钢铁组成的乏味巨物，而我来自思想的新家园网络空间。他曾是死之华乐队的作词人，而今则是一位网络自由主义者。他还称此书为网络空间的独立宣言。这是对互联网的普遍印象饱含诗意的总结：飘逸、虚无的东西如一朵浮云，可以即刻无处不在，而又永远在电脑屏幕遥远的另一端。 | 
