Pretty sure I’m still going on Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes” metaphor.
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A good analogy to understand the internet is by comparing it to mailing letters.
You send a letter to a place requesting content. Maybe you send a letter to Sears asking for a catalog of all they have on sale. Your letter is delivered by your internet service provider (ISP) instead of the postal service. It gets sent to Sear’s IP address instead of their street address. Instead of someone opening your letter, reading your request, and responding by sending a catalog back to you, Sear’s servers do all of that. They send your requested information to your IP address instead of your street address, in the form of a web page your browser knows how to read rather than a letter.
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