The internet 🌎 is a vast, powerful, invisible web of connections that link our lives together. Like all marvels, it carries with it a hidden frailty, a delicate balance between function and failure. 🚨The internet is as nebulous as the proverbial house of cards. One wrong move, one bad command, and huge chunks of the web can vanish.🫨
GW Leibniz invented the modern binary number system. 🔢 Today this methodology is necessary and fundamental – in a word: critical – to computing. ☀️ In 1703 it reflected the duality of existence. Fast forward to German engineer Konrad Zuse, the ENIAC, and John von Neumann’s architecture in the 1930s and 1940s and we can't live without it.