Intro to Networks

That thing you take for granted

until the internet goes down.

Tod Hansmann

• I have been a network engineer
• Netware certified, so you know it's legit
• No really, I know what IPX/SPX is
• I used a null modem
• Oh god my career is a sham

Contact via Todpunk everywhere

CEO of PhoneJanitor.com

What's a network?

Networks everywhere

Obligatory GIF

as is the new tradition

• Throw a ball back and forth
• Call Jeff something
• Paint a picture
• Make someone else paint

Networks are made of:

• Medium
• Audiences
• Messages
• Protocols
• Idiots with cats

Obligatory GIF #2

Medium

It's not a psychic

Audience

What the hell is Multicast?

Messages

Sometimes we call this data

If we're nerds.

and we are....

Protocols

How rude!

EVERYTHING!

... is a network

at least in computers.

This is code!

We will now draw things

• Wifi!
• What the hell is the internet of things?
• TRICK QUESTION!
• But no, seriously, what the hell is it?
• Simpler times.
• Sexy GIF time!

Obligatory GIF #3

the head bob (that's a blue man ref)

What did you think this would be?