Here I am at my desk, pecking away at the keyboard, hopping from website to website, wondering what to look at next.

Millions of people round the world are doing the same. Yet how many of them are wondering what makes all this actually work? How does it happen that one types a phrase into Google and within less than a second hundreds of thousands of possible references appear on one’s screen?

Here is the answer, a wonderful analysis of the systems running the Internet – and the fascinating issues of how it is all powered.

Read and be amazed.