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Maybe I'll find it later but this reminds me of the reddit thread from last year where a GenZ kid made a post asking people how his desk phone worked, what all the buttons did, and so on.
No one told the poster how it worked at the time they were hired. They didn't want to admit to coworkers that they had no idea how it worked.
I think this extends way beyond just work though. People just don't know how anything works. They buy phones and have no idea how they work, cars, computers, everything is a black box to most people.
This isn't entirely their fault; the makers of these products have deliberately made them harder and harder to tinker with and learn from over the years.
But even the people who are supposed to know how things work don't know how they work - my experience hiring people is that basically anyone who grew up with home wifi, cell phones, online gaming instead of LAN parties, etc. doesn't know anything about how networks or computers actually function, no matter what degrees or certifications they claim to have.
I've asked people applying for network engineer positions to explain how the Internet works, and they thought I was being philosophical. Like, woah, man, how does the Internet work? The conceptual map just isn't there, even if I try to gently lead them through it.
how does the internet work tho?
It's a series of tubes
Magic blue smoke