Who runs the internet...

I tend to post links more often than I probably should, but what the hell.

This article in Wired talks about how the internet essentially only works because of 13 computers run by the US government…and the government just announced that they were changing their mind. They’re not planning to relinquish control of those computers, ever.

What are they? They file every url extention for every site on the internet. Every time you point your browser to a web address, the browser checks these 13 supercomputers for what IP address matches the site you typed in or clicked on. Now that’s power.