the.com/ip address
the internet's version of a home address, except your house can teleport.
means a numerical label assigned to every device on a network so data knows exactly where to deliver itself.
from born in the 1970s with the internet protocol, part of the tcp/ip suite designed so packets of data could find their way across a growing web of connected computers.
ipv4 limitonly about 4.3 billion possible addresses
ipv6 fix340 undecillion addresses, basically infinite
dynamic vs staticmost homes get a new one periodically
vpn trickborrows someone else's address to hide yours