Okay so i was visiting some stuff on google or you might say googling (i like the former as the latter has a striking appearance to googly). Anyways so i came upon a link en-gb.facebook.com As an avid facebook fan or you might say facebooker, i found it intriguing. As i dug deep i discovered i could show my facebook page by the same name. Earlier it was facebook.com/kunalbansal17. Adding the en-gb prefix it changed to en-gb.facebook.com/kunalbansal17. Though the content matter was exactly same, what i noticed was some changes in the css layout. En-gb facebook was well covering my whole mozilla screen while simple facebook had some space to share on both left and right side. I decided against in opening the css of both and checking the layouts. Instead i googled further more for information. What I found was that the en-gb is the short code for English language, that was fine but then why not more of these special facebooks to the other languages like hin-facebook for hindi. I didn't get the answers but i didn't stop here. i had to know the secrets and i stumbled onto something never seen before.
facebook.com/peering some pretty advanced stuff there, look for yourselves.
The first column was simple about origin of facebook and blah blah and again blah.
The second column had an autonomous system number AS32934
I googled this number and found out this autonomous system number is been used in routing on the internet. A quick whois of this number solved some of the doubts. whois
But then again peering itself was a new term. A wiki catch of peering showed
"By definition, peering is the voluntary and free exchange of traffic between two networks, for mutual benefit." Thus facebook works on the public peering method, in addition to this I realized that how less we all know even after graduating from computer science. The peering page showed 16 locations of internet exchange point, that is huge.
Another link on the peering page took me to the Merit RaDb website, This website is just a registered database of peer users which use routing. Its facebook page there was as normal as any Db page Facebook RaDB but what was intriguing was that it showed its previous website address Thefacebook.com, yup with a "The". The social network and Sean Parker was back in mind. It also had zuck@thefacebook.com.
It also featured one more celebrity company level3.com, a telecommunication and ISP that uses fibre optics. How this is related to fb, my guess is it was the first Internet service provider for thefacebook then Mark Zuckerberg started his own routing and peering stuff then eventually changed the name to facebook and in its final listing just fb.
My next research took me to PeeringDb website. This project is all about peering stuff, it represents all the interlinked connection peering the internet packets and maintaining such synchronism, it is absolute marvellous. The facebook peeringdb link is Facebook peeringdb.
And at last one more unconventional way to open facecbook, use V6 (used for the ipv6 users). v6.facebook.com.
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