@cynthiarose @ryanhoulihan True story,
ME: (to Gen Z coworker 1) ...and that's how recursive DNS queries work.
GEN Z 2: Hey what are you guys doing?
GEN Z 1: (shaken) He was just showing me the terrifyingly fragile house of cards the entire internet depends on.
ME: ...
ME: Well, I don't know if I would say *terrifyingly* fragile, exactly,