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title: Intertubes
date: 2013-10-19
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![Mario](/images/mario.jpg)\

You may have noticed the picture of
[Mario](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_(character)) on the [frontpage](/).
The picture was taken a few years ago. It was the door to the office I shared
with a few fellow students.

You may also have noticed what happens when you click on the picture. A sound is
played - a man saying "it's- it's- it's a series of tubes!" If you've been
visiting the site from multiple devices you should have heard the sound from all
of the devices!

One day I was thinking: "Hm, Mario is a plumber. A plumber fixes the tubes. The
internet is a series of tubes!"

[Intertubes](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Intertubes)