permacomputing

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Author: Ville-Matias Heikkila <viznut@low.fi>
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+The **Internet** is the global network of computer networks that use the
+[[TCP/IP]] protocols to communicate. Sometimes, even wider definitions have
+been used; for example, any computer that is reachable by Internet [[email]]
+could be said to be "on the Internet" even without an IP address.
+
+The Internet routing technology was originally based on military
+requirements, i.e. nuclear attack survivability. The possibility for
+non-hierarchical and decentralized routing makes the network quite
+resilient.
+
+However, many other key aspects of the Internet are somewhat centralized
+(e.g. the tree-like way of dividing the global IP address space or
+coordinating the DNS hostnames). The currently dominant resource access
+technology, the [[WWW]], is particularly oriented around centralized servers
+and thus lacks the resilience of the underlying network.
+
+## Matter and energy
+
+The energy and material requirements of the Internet-related infrastructure
+are of particular concern to permacomputing.
+
+TODO: Include information about research on the energy requirements of data
+transmission etc.