How the internet works, and why it’s impossible to know what makes your Netflix slow - Quartz

How the internet works, and why it’s impossible to know what makes your Netflix slow - Quartz: "For most of us, the internet is what you’re looking at right now—what you see on your web browser. But the internet itself is comprised of the fiber optic cables, the servers, the proverbial series of tubes, all owned by the companies that built it. The content we access online is stored on servers and transmitted through networks owned by lots of different groups, but the magic of the internet protocol lets it all function as the integrated experience we know and, from time to time, love."