Have you heard the terms IP, DNS, HTTP, and HTTPS before?
if not, then this article will help you grasp a piece of basic information about them.
let's imagine that the internet is like a district that's filled with houses, each house has a mailing address in case someone wanna send you something, they write your mail address and the mailing company takes care of it. You check your mailbox the next day and there is the present that your sister told you about.
So the company here is the internet, it helps you to send and receive data online.
The mailing address here is the IP or the internet protocol, each device that logs on the internet has a unique set of numbers, these set numbers are the numbers that define your location on the internet so anything you do on the internet like simply logging in to Dev community's website, you send a logging message with your numbers ( IP ) to their server and they respond with letting you in.
What about HTTP and HTTPS?
HTTP stands for hypertext transfer protocol and what it does is to monitor the transfer of information between you and the other person or service.
But how?
It's called protocol for a reason right? So, for each connection made on the internet, its job is to check whether both parties are following a set of rules to allow the transfer of information between them.
But wait what's HTTPS?
I guess most of us heard this quote
no system is safe
so what it does is to encrypt the connection established between the parties to be more secure.
As for DNS?
It's called a domain name server, so when you want to google stuff like any normal person, you simply type youtube but no the IP address of youtube if you do then you are a weirdo man.
So, What DNS does is basically lookup in its information and convert the domain name into IP and then you will be redirected to your desired destination.
Thank you and good luck <3
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