On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 06:41, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > But, as has been pointed out previously "if there is internet" is too > vague a question to have an answer. > > If all you have is proxied access to outside HTTPS servers, then I > would consider the answer to be "no", but most people would say "yes" > they have internet.
Some day, we'll have people on Mars. They won't have TCP connections - at least, not unless servers start supporting connection timeouts measured in minutes or hours - but it wouldn't surprise me if some sort of caching proxy system is deployed. On the other hand, it also wouldn't surprise me if we do everything at a high level instead - have a Martian PyPI mirror, Debian package mirror, etc, etc, etc - and then build a mirror synchronization protocol that uses UDP. Either way, though: would a person on Mars "have the internet"? Yes, but not the internet as we know it... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
