The Internet Toaster started out as sort of a partially practical joke and partially a way of demonstrating some things you could do with SNMP and computer networks that most people didn’t tend to think about.
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It’s kind of like we could have the Congress of the United State pass a law with regards to time travel, but let’s face it you know, no one has a time travel machine so what’s the point of it? You can’t change physical laws by making administrative policy. Why should you think you can standardize complicated technology without understanding it?