That rude reminder of the net's physicality sparked an interest in the infrastructure that makes the internet possible—the globe-spanning tangle of wires, cables, routers and data centres that most users take entirely for granted.

这个对网络实体“无礼”的提醒激起了他对互联网基础设施的兴趣，因为这些满世界绕在一起的电线、电缆、路由器和数据中心使得互联网成为可能，而大多数用户认为这些完全是理所当然。