The Internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine. It’s a messy patchwork that has been assembled over decades, and it is held together with the digital equivalent of duct tape and bubble gum. Much of it relies on open-source software that is thanklessly maintained by a small army of volunteer programmers who fix the bugs. Internet: <www.nytimes.com> (adapted). Considering the previous text and its linguistic aspects, judge the following items. The author suggests that the Internet is, metaphorically speaking, a malfunctioning machine.
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