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Richard Tong

When you type an address like google.com into your web browser, DNS helps to make everything show up by pointing your browser to the right computer. DNS stands for Domain Name System and is a basically a big book of nicknames for computers. Normally, computers have really long names and also they're not in English. They look like 93.184.216.34 or 2606:2800:220:1:248:1893:25c8:1946 and are very hard to type. DNS has the long computer names next to nicknames so you can go to a computer by typing the nickname. Don't worry, you won't have to look up the computer names yourself. Everything happens automatically so you can just type nicknames to go places on the internet.