The Internet: Key Parts
The Internet: Key Parts
TCP/IP
With all the people using acronyms instead of spelling out their (mostly internal) laughter, you'd think that sending information was more expensive than sending a person in a chicken suit to sing...
IP Addresses
When you're working with millions upon billions of computers, you usually need something to tell each one apart. That's where IP addresses come in. They're actually almost exactly like street addre...
Domain Name System
If you leave them outside, phonebooks are pretty good at predicting the current weather. They're also pretty similar to the weather: they aren't the most exciting thing to talk about, but sometimes...
Packets
There comes a time when you realize that maybe your entire wardrobe won’t fit into your carry-on suitcase—roughly around the third body slam, in our experience. Instead, you’re going to need...
Routers
It's 2 am, most people are asleep in their beds, and you have a to catch a plane at 5. You decided to stay awake (because that's probably how late you would've stayed up on a weekend anyway), but n...
Servers and Data Centers
The cloud sounds great in theory: keep things off your computer to save space and you'll be able to access it anywhere you have internet access. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.Maybe. Jus...