Best way to check if there is internet?

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 09:31, <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-02-08 at 06:51:20 +1100,
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Either way, though: would a person on Mars "have the internet"? Yes,
> > but not the internet as we know it...
>
> By current definition, they *can't* have the internet as we know it.
>
> Wikipedia,¹ Mirrian-Webster,² and TechTerms.com³ (the first three that
> came up in my search engine, which is admittedly Earthbound for now) all
> use words like "global" and phrases like "across the world" or "around
> the world," all of which arguably exclude Mars, or at least a network
> that covers both Earth and Mars.
>

Yes, well, globally-unique IDs are probably going to be
universally-unique IDs too, but we're not hugely bothered by that.
Remember, you can get targeted advertising on the ISS too...

https://xkcd.com/713/

ChrisA