eli5 , How does a server receive thousands of requests at a time ?

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I always wonder how a server like google server receive thousands of request from people at once! I understand the signals are passed through fibernet cable, but won’t those signals collide ? Or how can some small wire handle soo many requests at once ? iin my mind a wire can only take one request at a time. I know these happens close to light speed, but still! its very hard to understand.

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Slow it all down to a single message, and an expected response, if we shared a bunch of homing pigeons and I had some of yours and you had some of mine we could exchange messages, the path of birds is irrelevant and where they land is somewhat irrelevant as long as when they land the message is taken off the bird and handed to you.

The sky can hold billions of birds each with their own messages going to their own destinations.

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