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...secreted chemicals of encoded information. An animal need only push a button, and a pheromone was released at lightening speed from one machine to another. In this way, elder animals who traveled the farthest reaches of the swamp could relay their findings instantaneously to colleagues and pupils at the hub of the swamp; they need only use their pheromone machines. Pupils could likewise relay scholarship and last-minute questions to elders; they need only use their pheromone machines. This, and other services, was provided gratis by the turtle...
...transit; elders researching in obscure parts of the swamp got lost forever because their pheromone cries for help were never received (many elders who had refused to use the system from the start were spared this fate, but they had been, by wide consensus lost already); in short, the hub began to dissolve...
...immediate destination of this Ethernet wiring is your friendly neighborhood "hub", a device usually located in the basement of your house or dorm. The hub concentrates the data from 100 or so users in your physical area, and plays "traffic cop" for the packets coming into and out of your area...
Each packet is then whisked along over fiber optic lines to the router nearest you. There are six of them on campus, including one for the river houses, one for the Yard and one for the Quad. Think of a router as a "hub for hubs," taking all the packets from thousands of users and sending them along once more to the Science Center...
...router dance continues from here, as your packets are passed from router to router via telephone lines, fiber optics and even satellite links until they reach their destination. In response, packets are sent back to your computer, back to the Science Center and out to your router, then your hub and finally the computer on your desk...