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  • A spider sees a web differently to a fly. For a spider, the web is an intricate piece of work that leads to food. For a fly, the web represents certain death. A spider uses the web, a fly is trapped in it.

    Further afield, someone cleaning their house sees cobwebs as dirt that needs to be removed. For a photographer, a web covered with dew is surefire hit on Instragram.

    What other perspectives might there be of physical spider webs?

    Does this tell us anything about the metaphorical application of this idea to computer networks?

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