Cone-shaped paper filter und electrical telegraph: was sie gemeinsam haben
- Schritt 1. Cone-shaped paper filter — ist Teil von — Kaffeefilter. Pleats shaped like a funnel.
- Schritt 2. Kaffeefilter — funktioniert wie — Water filter. Filtering a liquid through a porous medium.
- Schritt 3. Water filter — ist hergestellt aus — Silica (sand). Slow filters are layers of sand and gravel.
- Schritt 4. Silica (sand) — ist Material für — Internet. The backbones are silica optical fibre.
- Schritt 5. Internet — nutzt — Packet switching. Data is sent in packets.
- Schritt 6. Packet switching — funktioniert wie — Electrical telegraph. An analogy: telegraph messages were passed from station to station with intermediate storage — a “store and forward” principle similar to packet transmission.