This was the first assignment given in my “Networking
Fundamentals” class. We were asked to write a short fiction
story describing how we believe devices communicate on a
network. It was not graded but used as a way for the professor
to get a feeling of how much we know about networking before we
got into the course material. I perhaps took the assignment too
seriously, or not serious enough. You decide. The land of
Kinterneon exists apart from yours and mine. It is a world which
follows a strict yet completely foreign set of protocols. The
inhabitants are uniquely talented in the ways of multitasking
and optimizing their efficiency. With these skills they are able
to evolve and develop with astonishing speed. In-fact, their
entire existence has come to be and developed to what it is
today in just the last 40 years. Kinterneon is divided regions,
which are added and removed at to fast a pace to count. These
regions exist to allow their regional administrators preside
over their domains with better focus and g