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He was relentlessly mocked for his "1337 hacker" persona, but he also gained a strange kind of respect for the sheer confidence he displayed while explaining a network utility as if it were a digital weapon.

The comedy—and the reason the video went viral on sites like Reddit —came from his explanation of how tracert worked: Nextgenhacker101 Tracert

The tracert (trace route) command is actually a basic diagnostic tool used by IT professionals to see the path data packets take across routers (hops) to reach a destination. He was relentlessly mocked for his "1337 hacker"

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