Addresses
The Internet
is a vast network of many different computers that are able to
talk to each other in spite of the fact that they may be separated by large
distances, may be very different computers built by different manufacturers, and
may be running many different kinds of operating systems. This is similar to
people in (say) Israel, Brazil, Japan, the United States, and Norway, each
normally speaking a different language, being able to converse almost
instantaneously with each other on very broad ranges of topics! The key to how
this remarkable communication is possible lies in the delivery of "packets" of
information electronically to addresses that have unique "names".
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