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In part one we saw that just as a letter moves through the postal system (or imagine successive rounds of Six Degrees of Separation) your message to my website moves one router at a time, getting ever closer to its destination. It’s now hit a router that recognises the IP address as “local”. Under our postal analogy, the letter has reached a delivery office. Let’s continue with the postal analogy to understand what happens next. Continue reading “Unravelling the Web – Part 2”

The internet is an amazing technology that most of us use every day but relatively few understand. There are plenty of guides out there on the internet so how is this one different? Well, I believe that if you can follow the process of how a letter in the post gets from A to B then you can understand how the internet works. By using the postal system as an analogy, I hope to make the machinery of the internet accessible to a wider audience. Continue reading “Unravelling the Web – Part 1”