Ask Derek Schlecht what he does for a living and he’ll tell you he’s an IBX site engineer. He may then hit you with a string of technical jargon about cooling units and backup power systems.What Schlecht’s job really is, though, is keeping the Internet running.Not the whole Internet, of course. By the very nature of the Web, there is no central control room. Schlecht’s responsibility is to maintain a small piece of it. And it’s thanks to thousands of people like him around the world that your home page shows up when you log on in the morning.
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