BACK FROM THE DEAD

摘要

Peals of laughter rippledrnthrough the ether in April when hundreds of thousands of people clicked on YouTube.com to watch comedian Will Ferrell's short video, The Landlord. It's pretty hilarious, after all, to see a tiny 2-year-old girl in a party dress playing the part of an irate landlord, squeaking, "I am tired of this crap...I want my money!" at Ferrell, her distraught, bushy-haired tenant.rnWhat chuckling viewers couldn't see was the sprawling framework that companies have cobbled together to zap millions of clips like this one around the Internet every day. After a student, say, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., clicked on The Landlord, one of hundreds of thousands of computer servers in Google's numerous California data centers pushed the video through Web networking gear from Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks.