Month: October 2011

Theres a lot more to how the internet works, but for a few posts I want to talk about a few side topics which sort of underly everything about computers and the internet. The topic for this post is binary and bits. So the first question is, what is binary? Binary is a base 2 … Continue reading How the Internet Works 5: Bits and Binary

My last few posts have been about names on the internet. I talked about domain names and urls, and today I’m going to talk about IP addresses.. IP Addresses continue the very interesting series of names that we find on the internet. For us, they are sort of the end of the line when it … Continue reading How the Internet Works 4: IP Addresses