This little sitelet at Stanford is my favorite read on this subject. It’s help me re-find my way:
j-m-p-b-2018:~ maeda$ traceroute mit.edu
traceroute to mit.edu (23.4.118.176), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 fios_quantum_gateway (192.168.1.1) 0.950 ms 0.436 ms 0.578 ms
2 * * *
3 b3308.bstnma-lcr-22.verizon-gni.net (100.41.214.180) 4.361 ms
b3308.bstnma-lcr-21.verizon-gni.net (100.41.214.178) 6.694 ms
b3308.bstnma-lcr-22.verizon-gni.net (100.41.214.180) 2.785 ms
4 * * *
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6 0.et-5-0-2.br3.nyc4.alter.net (140.222.239.37) 7.890 ms 8.116 ms
0.et-7-1-5.br3.nyc4.alter.net (140.222.2.129) 7.812 ms
7 verizon.com.customer.alter.net (152.179.49.134) 7.597 ms 7.362 ms 6.957 ms
8 if-ae-26-2.tcore1.ct8-chicago.as6453.net (216.6.81.29) 24.222 ms 23.967 ms 25.846 ms
9 if-ae-22-2.tcore2.ct8-chicago.as6453.net (64.86.79.1) 24.039 ms 24.112 ms 23.970 ms
10 64.86.79.86 (64.86.79.86) 228.462 ms 192.876 ms 219.248 ms
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22 * *To this date I vividly remember in 1984 accessing the DEC-20 at Columbia University using Kermit. These days I feel so glad that in my later life I got to get close to the Internet again. Phew!
