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Working of Internet

A brief description.

By Ha Le SaPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
Working of Internet
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Nobody can imagine a life without the internet; the internet has become the fifth element of life in today's technology world. Although it is a thing that we use daily, several people do not know the exact working of the internet. It is necessary to understand the operation behind it.

What is the internet?

Many individuals believe that the internet resembles mists swinging in the climate, and to understand its working is like testing the cleverness of an individual. In reality, the working of the internet is too easy to comprehend. Because it is only a network comprises on an elongated piece of cable linked with various devices that makes it possible to connect a gadget in one country to another gadget in some other country.

Working

It is being used billions of times daily to share data through that long cable across the world. Here are some computers with an internet connection and have a much special task to do; these computers remain online for all 24 hours a day, every day. These online machines help people every time with delivering the required data; by fetching through different websites. The machines performing this task are known as servers: the machines that any user can utilize to access the internet, and the user who accesses the server is called the client.

A web server is like a large library available to clients 24 hours a day. So anyone can use it at any time of the day for various purposes as to see Google's home page, or watch the latest Youtube video. Moreover, you can access all of the files and data that you wish to see; no matter what website did you request. Now, if you take it as a huge library with all the information in the form of data, then how is it possible to collect the information of your choice?

An extremely challenging task is to find the thing you suddenly need from this library. So how is this issue fixed on the internet? Imagine you are chilling in your room with your computer, you type in google.com in the search bar because you require to go over to the main Google homepage, and the homepage is shown. But wait, see behind the scene: your browser transmits a notice to your internet service provider which are the individuals, you pay to be capable to access the internet; now the information that you are sending the internet service provider is I like to visit google.com. They will then transmit that message to the domain name system server (DNS).

A DNS server is fundamentally similar to a telephone directory that follows when you play out that solicitation through your program. The DNS server will look into its data set regarding what is the particular IP address of that site that you are attempting to get to. Each and every machine that is connected to the web has an exceptional IP address which resembles a postal location of your machine, so that when somebody needs to move or acknowledge records on the web, each machine can be found by its one-of-a-kind IP address. When that DNS server acquires the IP address, it moves that back to your program.

The web is made out of enormous rambling bits of wires connecting the world's all web clients as you can see below.

Image Courtesy: ExtremeTech

As you can assume, internet is a convoluted world out there. Presently, assume you are sitting in your home and you want to visit a site that is facilitated in the US or some other country. Then, at that point, your program would need to play out a call that goes inside one of these links to arrive at that country. Additionally, when those machines accept your solicitation, they will send back every of the connected information again through these huge links to explore these submerged or above-water wires. You should simply have an IP address, maybe you are sending a letter halfway across the world, and the main expect the letter to arrive at your companion is that postal location on the face of the envelope, so when you have the IP address of your desired site to arrive at, then your program moves one more message through the network access supplier through these links to the server that is situated at some area.

In addition, the machine that is reconnecting at the location is, obviously, the google server. The server then, at that point, moves every one of the records back to you, so you get to see the google landing page in your program. These means occur in a question of a couple of milliseconds. Just to ponder the excursion that your information has continued going through the world a great many times consistently. As now you know the particular location where you can find the google landing page, how about you try it out, open your program and type in 216.58.210.46 then hit enter to see the google landing page is being served, depending upon you through the web.

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  • Mariann Carroll3 years ago

    Hearted very informative 😻

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