What is an IP Address?
Filed under Web Technology
If you’ve been using computers on the internet for a while, you’ve probably heard mention of an IP address at some point, but what is it?
Telephone Numbers
The internet is a massive collection of computers, all interconnected via a multitude of different computer networks, hence its name, internet, derived from inter-network. In many ways the internet is like the existing telephone network, where individual telephones are interconnected worldwide between countries individual telephone systems.
For the global telephone system to work, every telephone in the world must have a completely unique telephone number. Such a number is made up from three different groups, your local number, your area code and your international country code. Using this system you can dial direct to any telephone in the world if you know its number.
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