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Daniel J. Summers

Explain what about Node.JS? :) Not trying to be a smart-aleck - there are so many ways to take that question. Here's my take if I interpret the question as "why does it exist?"

Remember in Mexico, after the earthquake, when we saw the people who were searching for kids at that school? It was hard, but sometimes it was even harder because there were people there who didn't speak the same language. (You remember the translator - you asked me what that was.)

Computers can be like that; when we use the Internet, our computers ask questions, and the other computers answer. Even though the Internet translates them, the computers usually speak different languages. Node.JS let the computers use the same language to both ask the questions and to answer them as well.