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Jim Whitehead
27 Jun 2014

Please embellish on,"in the cloud / cloud storage."

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Cheryl
27 Jun 2014

Thanks, Bob, excellent explanation of a very complicated (and scary to mere mortals)subject. I've forwarded it to my 97 year old mother who doesn't know much about computers, but continues to try to learn.

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Michael
27 Jun 2014

What's the difference between the Internet and the WWW? With an internet connection can parts of the Internet which are outside of the WWW be accessed? With a browser?

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Tony
27 Jun 2014

I second Cheryl's comment and am particularly impressed by her 97 year old mum with whom I share an interest in learning for as long as I remain upright.

For me your detailed explanation of the internet was TMI (too much information) and also I think your comment that your subscribers are good looking is a generalisation if not an exaggeration :)

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Daniel
27 Jun 2014

Excellent. I would guess that part of the internet protocols is that the machines all agree to speak the same language. That way they understand each other just like we understand each other better when we speak the same language.

My question regards a quote: "Data blocks rarely follow each other in single file over the same path...." Does this change when using HTTPS and or a VPN?

My reason is trying to understand why my solutins to a problem worked. One of our banks will not allow a secure connection unless I turn off one of our ISP's at the router. My guess has been that the bank was recognizing some of the data packets was coming from two different ISP's. My solutions was to install a switch that allows me to disconnect one of the ISP's from the router and then reconnect when we're finished with that bank. Of course, if we were to upgrade our router to have connection tracking.

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tom mcdonald
27 Jun 2014

Thanks Bob,
A great and clear explanation. I'm going to save this so when my grandchildren ask me how does the Internet work I'll give them a copy of this article!
Tom

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RandiO
27 Jun 2014

I had always thought of the internet as the "Muhammed going to the Mountain" concept: Now you are telling me that it is more of a "Mountain coming to the Muhammed" corollary, which seems so inefficient. I will never again tell someone to "Go and Google it"! Argh!
Your next tutorial should educate us, the pretty people, on GoogleNow voice/speech recognition (in 52 languages) before I get that all screwed up at its current early stages!

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Rochelle
27 Jun 2014

Great, Bob! would you consider making a diagram of this, maybe 2 related diagrams, so we can have it handy? I would like to present it in a talk to my computer users' club.

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David
27 Jun 2014

OK, now explain how those packets get created, how the routers decide which is the best path, and how my computer puts them all into the proper order. Then explain how people write the code for all of this, and how the routers can do it all in 4.2psec while listening to everyone else. I can program a little bit, but I think magic is an apt description. Or perhaps Dr. Forbin is in a room somewhere.

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Peter Ballantyne
27 Jun 2014

Bob, I have been using the Internet since it first started, and I kinda know, in a general sort of way, how it all works. But that is the best straightforward and easy to understand presentation of it all that I have ever read. As I read your article it reminded me all over again of the incredible thing we all now take for granted so easily. Many thanks.

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Janet Slivinski
27 Jun 2014

That sure is a great article. I am not sure how much of it will stay in my brain but while I was reading it I thought I understood most of it or just some of it. Thanks for all you do.
Jan
PS I am not too good with the computer.

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Jim
28 Jun 2014

Thanks, Bob, very useful. I am also curious about how the internet is administered and financed. Who does the design, development, management, quality control, and who pays them/how are they paid?

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Nancy
28 Jun 2014

Bob, this was so helpful to read. Thanks for explaining it in such a simple, concise way.

Posted by:

Lloyd
28 Jun 2014

What a great explanation of such a complicated subject. Please ignore negative comments and follow through as asked by David.

Posted by:

intelligencia
28 Jun 2014

@Tony

Lighten Up a Bit!

Mr. Rankin always provides us with things that are not "TMI" in my book as there are plenty of us who enjoy any and all information given (as we absorb how the Internet works)!
This only works for our own edification and enlightenment on whatever topic Mr. Rankin chooses to share with us.

Also: I happen to be good-looking . . . And?

i

Posted by:

Gail
29 Jun 2014

Your answers are always so informational, interesting and fun to read. That's why I've been reading your articles for over 10 years. Thanks!

Posted by:

Kathi
30 Jun 2014

So where are the 13 ROOT servers and who controls them?

EDITOR'S NOTE: See http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=where+are+the+13+ROOT+servers+and+who+controls+them :-)

Posted by:

David
30 Jun 2014

Tony said, "your comment that your subscribers are good looking is a generalisation if not an exaggeration :)"

That is certainly not the case for all of us. :)

Posted by:

Thorsteinn
01 Jul 2014

Thanks Bob, very interesting
Thorsteinn

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Don
04 Jul 2014

Hi Bob, thanks for a good article. But I'm a little disappointed because I think you stopped just short of discussing the info that people like me really don't understand and are really curious about, once they know it exists.
DNS servers. Where are they, how many? And more importantly, who decides all that? Can anyone have a DNS server? and especially the root DNS servers. Who decided who would have them and where they would be?
I went to that cute little link you set up in someone else's question, and the first article I read said there are NOT 13 - its more like 130, and they are all over the world. Who authorized that? Who owns them? Who maintains them?
Is all this controlled by the US government or the defense department?
And perhaps most important of all, the same article I read said there is really only 1 master server that controls all the root servers. My god, that must ben the most important machine in the history of mankind!
Where is that and who owns and controls it? If it got nuked would that mean the internet would be dead, perhaps forever? I'll stop, because this is beginning to scare me.
Don

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