How the internet actually works, and why nobody is in charge of it

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You open a video and it starts playing in about a second.

Somewhere between your thumb and that first frame, your request crossed maybe fifteen different companies' equipment, possibly an ocean, and came back. Nobody coordinated it.

That is the part I find genuinely strange about the internet, and it is the part most explanations skip.

They tell you the internet is "a global network of networks", which is true and tells you nothing. So let's actually take it apart.