How the internet has your movies

Robert Lac
Aug 28, 2017 · 3 min read

Dear Grandma,

I’m sorry most of your DVDs got too old and scratched up to play, but with this new computer you can watch almost all of them without the DVD. I was able to get all of our family videos onto here but I couldn’t save most of your movies. The good news is that they are available through the internet. You remember the Hui Brothers?

You can find all of their movies online. It might seem a bit crazy how the internet can have all their movies but it’s true it does. It’s also super easy to find them all. Here’s how

The internet isn’t just a place, it’s more of the roads between places and the places themselves. It’s very similar to a city in that regard. The first part of the internet is the server, it would be like the buildings. Each would have their own “Internet Protocol” or IP address much like a normal address, that would tell where the unique location of it is. This is so information knows where to get sent or be picked up from. You don’t directly connect to the server, you are connected to your service provider (Spectrum) who connects you to the place you want to go. Think of it like getting in their car to go to a building with the address you wanted to go to. The service provider is the car, but doesn’t control where you go, they just follow the orders you give them.

All information is transferred this way, from movies to words. But they are broken up because they are much larger than just a request. It is like how if your service provider drives you towards a destination you would be the only passenger and the only thing you’d have is your request. But for files they need multiple cars because each person carries a different part, and a car can only have 4 people. A movie for example would have to be broken up into parts like the sound, color, music, and video. Each of those categories would be broken down too, because an entire movie’s audio is too much for people to remember. those 4 pieces that ship together in the car are called a packet

That is the basics of how you can find all your movies online. You search up a request on the internet like what movie you want. This is like requesting a car to take you somewhere you wish to go. Your service provider takes you to the place you wanted to go like the car taking you to the address of the place you requested. When you are there you can see the movie, that is how the internet mostly works. One more thing… there will be times where you might end up on the wrong website, like if your driver got confused about directions. You should be careful and make sure that it is safe and what you were looking for.

Have fun,

Robert

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Robert Lac

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