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 item.
The word “it”, in the last sentence of the text, refers to
“bubble gum”, mentioned in the prior sentence.