{"id":22,"date":"2015-12-20T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2015-12-20T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T17:57:37","slug":"how-does-the-internet-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"How does the internet work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I often get asked difficult questions but this is a cracker: \u201cSteve, how does the Internet work\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most of the explanations I have read get very technical, fill with jargon very quickly and don\u2019t leave you with a picture of what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>I think it helps to have something to relate to and I want you to consider first of all what exactly what happens when you post a letter. but please note this relates to surfing the web not email which I will deal with later.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you write a letter to your insurance company requesting a claim form.<br \/>\nYou put the letter in an envelope.<br \/>\nYou address the envelope.<br \/>\nYou post the envelope.<br \/>\nThe postal service reads the address and transports the letter via road, rail etc to it\u2019s destination.<br \/>\nThe insurance company opens the envelope.<br \/>\nThey read the letter.<br \/>\nThey open their filing cabinet and retrieve a claim form.<br \/>\nThey put it in an envelope and post back to you using your return address.<br \/>\nYou receive the envelope.<br \/>\nYou open it and read the information.<\/p>\n<p>With that in the back of your mind here is how the Internet works in a similar way to the mail service.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet consists of millions of computers connected together by a network of cables. This cable network is so complex there is an information pathway from every computer to every other computer on the Internet just as there is a road connecting every house in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Each computer on the network must have a unique address. This is numerical and is called an IP address.<\/p>\n<p>There are two types of computer on the network, Clients and Servers.<br \/>\nThe client is you sitting at home requesting information. (like a claim form)<br \/>\nThe server is a computer storing websites and delivering pages to clients.<br \/>\nWhen you sit at home in front of your computer and sign onto the Internet you join this network and your computer is known as a client, you are a customer who requests information from the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>All the information on the Internet is stored on a different type of computer called a server. The server stores web pages and delivers them to clients when requested.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often get asked difficult questions but this is a cracker: \u201cSteve, how does the Internet work\u201d Most of the explanations I have read get very technical, fill with jargon very quickly and don\u2019t leave you with a picture of what\u2019s happening. I think it helps to have something to relate to and I want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/?page_id=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How does the internet work?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/23"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fixitsteve.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}