Did you know that the Internet works largely thanks to ... lava lamps? (2 photos + video)

Did you know that the Internet works largely thanks to... lava lamps? Yes, those same ones from the 60s, with bubbling wax inside. And this is not a joke! Now we will explain how it works.

Recently, the Internet remembered an explosive fact: in the office of Cloudflare, a large company that provides protection and acceleration of many sites around the world, there is an entire wall of lava lamps.

But this is not just decoration, but an important part of the security system. The camera records the wax moving in the lamps around the clock.





These random movements turn into random numbers, which are then used to encrypt millions of websites.

Why bother? Because a computer can't come up with a number "out of thin air" - it always needs something to rely on.

Even what is called "random" in games is just an algorithm that works according to certain rules. But in cryptography, real, unpredictable randomness is important.

While you are afraid of being replaced by AI, the security of a huge part of the Internet still depends on bubbles in glass tubes!