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title: The Internet is a scale free network
date: "2002-10-05T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1111
description: I found that the Internet operates as a scale-free network, characterized by a few highly connected hubs and many poorly connected nodes. This topological structure explains why the network is robust against random failures but vulnerable to targeted attacks.
keywords: [scale-free networks, network theory, internet architecture, graph theory, node connectivity, topology]
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[The Internet is a scale free network](http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1365118).