[cormacrelf]

I think the idea is that people who have had done their Computer Networks homework at the college coffee shop with their friends Tim and Liz can identify with the article. It's a niche audience but it's the only reason the author can imagine anyone would be interested in it. It's unappealing to me because despite having (re-)imagined this whole scene himself, the author can't really imagine why the reader would want to know, why I would want to know. If he could, then he would have motivated it that way instead.