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Stick-figure style comic of a tall, precarious stack of uneven gray blocks. A bracket over the top reads "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE". One thin block at the bottom holds up everything. An arrow points to it with the text "A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2003".

All Modern Digital Infrastructure Rests on One Nebraska Guy

xkcd's "Dependency" comic shows the whole internet balanced on one thin block, an open-source project a lone Nebraskan has maintained since 2003. A joke for anyone who watched the web grow up.

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Stick-figure style comic of a tall, precarious stack of uneven gray blocks. A bracket over the top reads "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE". One thin block at the bottom holds up everything. An arrow points to it with the text "A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2003".

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