From mouse click to string theory, hop on board for a surreal journey of infinite complexity. In 20 minutes. By Brendan Humphreys and Matt Quail

1. Everything at the
Click of a Button
Brendan Humphreys & Matt Quail

2. “What happens when you
press submit on a web form?”

3. Browser Internet Server

4. HTTP Request Database
Browser Internet Server
HTTP Response

5. HTML
OS HTTP Request Database
Browser Internet Server
Mouse HTTP Response HDD
DNS TCP/IP

6. Man month Python Transactions
Linux Mac C Java XML Table
Backups
Virtual Memory Smalltalk
C++ Frontpage Join SQL
Stack Windows NPN Junctions Software Ruby
HTML Javascript
USB IO Bus CPU Field Effect Transistors TLS/SSL X.500 2 Phase Commit ACID
PC Register
Device Drivers OS HTTP Request Database
Browser Internet Server
Monolithic Mouse HTTP Response NIC SATA HDD
Hub
Micro Kernel Fragmentation IP Collision Backoff LAN Token Ring Frame SMD IO Bus
tubes
VPN
IO Interrupts LOLcats
Virtual Machine
DNS Packets
Ethernet
OSI Model
Pipelining
IEEE 802.11 TCP/IP
RAID
RAM
Switch DHCP Router IPv6 Parity ARP SMTP Parallel Processing 1000BaseT WAN

8. Man month Python Transactions
Linux Mac C Java XML Table
Backups
Virtual Memory Smalltalk
C++ Frontpage Join SQL
Stack Windows NPN Junctions Software Ruby
HTML Javascript
USB IO Bus CPU Field Effect Transistors TLS/SSL X.500 2 Phase Commit ACID
PC Register
Device Drivers OS HTTP Request Database
Browser Internet Server
Monolithic Mouse HTTP Response NIC SATA HDD
Hub
Micro Kernel Fragmentation IP Collision Backoff LAN Token Ring Frame SMD IO Bus
tubes
VPN
IO Interrupts LOLcats
Virtual Machine
DNS Packets
Ethernet
OSI Model
Pipelining
IEEE 802.11 TCP/IP
RAID
RAM
Switch DHCP Router IPv6 Parity ARP SMTP Parallel Processing 1000BaseT WAN

9. Man month Python Transactions
Linux Mac C Java XML Table
Backups
Virtual Memory Smalltalk
C++ Frontpage Join SQL
HTML
Ruby
Stack Windows NPN Junctions Javascript
USB IO Bus CPU Field Effect Transistors TLS/SSL X.500 2 Phase Commit ACID
PC Register
Device Drivers OS HTTP Request Database
BrowserSoftware Server
Internet
Monolithic Mouse HTTP Response NIC SATA HDD
Hub
Micro Kernel Fragmentation IP Collision Backoff LAN Token Ring Frame SMD IO Bus
tubes
VPN
IO Interrupts LOLcats
Virtual Machine
DNS Packets
Ethernet
OSI Model
Pipelining
IEEE 802.11 TCP/IP
RAID
RAM
Switch DHCP Router IPv6 Parity ARP SMTP Parallel Processing 1000BaseT WAN

11. • OS: 40-80 million
• Browser: 4 million
• Web server, container: 6 million
• Web app: 1 million
• Database, HDD, IO Bus, CPU, switches, ...

12. 100,000,000

18. Man month Python Transactions
Linux Mac C Java XML Table
Backups
Virtual Memory Smalltalk
C++ Frontpage Join SQL
Stack Windows NPN Junctions Software Ruby
HTML Javascript
USB IO Bus CPU Field Effect Transistors TLS/SSL X.500 2 Phase Commit ACID
PC Register
Device Drivers OS HTTP Request Database
Browser Internet Server
Monolithic Mouse HTTP Response NIC SATA HDD
Hub
Micro Kernel Fragmentation IP Collision Backoff LAN Token Ring Frame SMD IO Bus
tubes
VPN
IO Interrupts LOLcats
Virtual Machine
DNS Packets
Ethernet
OSI Model
Pipelining
IEEE 802.11 TCP/IP
RAID
RAM
Switch DHCP Router IPv6 Parity ARP SMTP Parallel Processing 1000BaseT WAN

19. Man month Python Transactions
Linux Mac C Java XML Table
Backups
Virtual Memory Smalltalk
C++ Frontpage Join SQL
Stack Windows NPN Junctions Software Ruby
HTML Javascript
USB IO Bus CPU Field Effect Transistors TLS/SSL X.500 2 Phase Commit ACID
PC Register
Device Drivers OS HTTP Request Database
Browser Internet
HDD Server
Monolithic Mouse HTTP Response NIC SATA
Hub
Micro Kernel Fragmentation IP Collision Backoff LAN Token Ring Frame SMD IO Bus
tubes
VPN
IO Interrupts LOLcats
Virtual Machine
DNS Packets
Ethernet
OSI Model
Pipelining
IEEE 802.11 TCP/IP
RAID
RAM
Switch DHCP Router IPv6 Parity ARP SMTP Parallel Processing 1000BaseT WAN

20. To most people:
This is the And this is the
screen “HARD DRIVE”
(or ocassionally
the “computer”)
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36. x7

38. “What happens when you
press submit on a web form?”

39. http://dougt.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/what-is-a-reflow/