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This is how the Internet works (in comprehensible Danish!)

Examples of protocols are hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), transmission control protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP). Your IP address is your address on the Internet.

Just like in the real world

 

the sender of a package needs to know your physical address in order to send a letter or package to you.

You want to read an article here on Netkabelt, so you open your browser and type www.netkabelt.dk.
The moment you press enter, your computer will send an electronic brazil phone number data request via your router and modem to your internet service provider (e.g. Fullrate or YouSee).

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Your ISP will now forward the request to a name server (DMS). Here it will search for the server you requested. In this case Netkabelt’s server, which is hosted at a web hotel. The time it takes to make the “call” is called the ping time.

Our server at Netkabelt will then accommodate your request to view our home page. Our server must have sent text and images back to your computer.

The data sent from our server is split into small packets and travels back through the network. The parcels can easily travel different routes – and will, as a general rule, take the route with the least traffic.

You can now read this article

 

All this happens before you can blink an eye – if the speed of your internet connection and computer allows it, of course.

Step 5 above is this property of the Internet that makes it as stable 5 best social media wordpress plugins and secure as the US military demanded in the 60s.

This means that information can arrive even though parts of the internet may be overloaded or down.

A good analogy for understanding the Internet is to see it as the powder data waiter in a restaurant.

Imagine that you are the customer who would like to order a certain dish (content on the Internet). Let’s say again that this content is an article on Netkabelt.

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