NextGenHacker101 owes me a new monitor

Because I just got soda all over my current one…

One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. 

 

And yes, I know that I’m being cruel here and I shouldn’t make fun of the kids ignorance, but he is SO proud of his new discovery and is so wrong in his interpretation of what actually is going on…

 

 

 

For my non net-savvy readers: The “tracert” command lists the route that packets take from the local computer to a remote computer.  So if I want to find out what path a packet takes from my computer to www.microsoft.com, I would issue “tracert www.microsoft.com”.  This can be extremely helpful when troubleshooting networking problems.  Unfortunately the young man in the video had a rather different opinion of what the command did.