when you send out a tweet about a new video card you can't afford or how great
the last episode of tech quicki was have you wondered what happens I mean sure we
all know that it goes out onto the internet but much like flushing a toilet
most people don't know exactly what happens to their chunks of uh data after
they post something so where exactly does it all go well to understand the
answer to this question it might help to keep in mind that the internet is not
owned or even governed by any one group of people I said not owned by any one
group of people but rather it works as a
distributed system made up of lots of smaller computer networks owned by
various isps universities governments and other organizations that are linked
together through what are called peering agreements but lonus hold on a second if
no one's really running the internet then how does it stay working do we even
know where it goes there are organizations that help coordinate and
direct internet traffic so that compatibil is maintained everywhere from
Ottawa to Oman probably the most well-known of these groups is I can
which maps IP addresses to Internet domain name so when you punch in let's
say Linus tips.com in your web browser
that actually isn't enough information for your computer to know what website
to show you so what happens is your ISP or Internet service provider directs it
to a DNS server which matches what you typed to the IP address that corresponds
responds to it so you can connect and keep consuming the awesome videos we
create but once you do that then how does the content itself get to your PC
one of the internet's most defining features is that it is Packet switched
meaning that all data is broken up into
little well packets and then reassembled
once it arrives at your computer and while the idea of shattering and then
reassembling something every time you need to move it won't make much sense
for things like oh I don't know human arms the advantage of this approach for
computer data is that it allows each packet to take the most efficient route
possible so if everyone in the town next
to you where your traffic would have normally been routed through start streaming Game of Thrones at exactly the
same freaking time congesting any nearby nodes causing some of your much more
important My Little Pony packets to slow down the remaining ones can be easily
and dynamically rerouted via another path mid file so your internet speeds
stay high and because packets contain in
addition to the actual content identification information that ensures
they are being sent to the right place and that they can be properly recombined
later on normally none of the data ends up as a corrupted jumbled mess either
speaking of jumbled messes if you've ever tried to do something as simple as
copy of file to an external hard drive on a Mac and then carry it over to a PC
and open it you're probably wondering how users on different operating systems
on different machines from different parts of the world all manage to use the
same internet standards bodies come to the rescue here again they make sure
that the same fundamental languages and Technologies are used throughout the
globe including w3c which is in charge of things like HTML and CSS the
languages that your web browser will interpret into something your computer
can understand so I hope this helped give you some idea how the world pulls
together without a single guiding force to give us this awesome tool for arguing
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