It's in this chapter that Blum realizes the potential vastness of the project he's decided to embark on. He continues with an explanation on why, in hindsight, he probably should have known that the task on hand was quite daunting, quoting Inventing the Internet when he says "the history of the Internet holds a number of surprises and confounds some common assumptions".
Trying to find the origins of the Internet is like trying to figure out if the egg or the chicken came first, no one can really know. Blum uses this analogy because if the Internet is a network of networks, then it takes two networks to make an Internet, how could one have been first? A truly eye-opening comparison, this analogy really sheds light on how mysterious the Internet really is.
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