Pretty sure I’m still going on Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes” metaphor.
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The Internet is one big giant game of pass the parcel, really.
Your computer writes a message and puts it in a data packet, then it looks around to see if anyone knows how to get the packet where it needs to go. If nobody does, your computer sends the packet to the next higher level, and this process repeats until either there is no higher level, or it gets somewhere that knows where to send it. Then, it walks back down until it gets to the computer you wanted to reach.
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