Does anyone share a suspicion that these myriad of anachronisms and bits of weirdness creates unnecessary complexity that swim through the system like a goblin in the machine? And that, if with 20/20 hindsight we just simplified things a bit, that many of our systems would be much more resilient and easy to manage?
I feel that we hacked the internet together, and in the impending rush to build more and more on top of it, we just resigned ourselves to the mess.
None of this (well, most of it) should be inherently hard. If we 'did it with foreknowledge' I wonder if all of these IT level networking issues would be pedantic, i.e. something you read a few quick docs and away you go. Everyone an expert pretty quick.
Merely looking at the options for my DSL device, my god man, even after all these years in tech, I'm still a bit bewildered.
Even at the consumer level, if I go over to someone else's house, I can't 'change the channel'. No idea what I'm watching, or the abstractions behind how it got to the TV.