Imagine you're sending a letter to your friend.
To make sure it gets to the right place, you write their address on the envelope.
Now, think of the internet as a giant postal system.
When you want to visit a website or send a message online, your device needs to know where to send that request.
That's where IP addresses come in.
An IP address is like a unique address for every device connected to the internet.
It helps data find its way from your computer, phone, or tablet to the right destination, whether it's a website, a server, or another device.
Just like how each house has its address, each device has its IP address.
It's a way for everything on the internet to find its way around, kind of like a digital GPS!
I hope I was able to explain the topic to you in the simplest of the language.
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Resources to learn more:
- https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/what-is-ip-address
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address
- https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/what-is-an-ip-address
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-an-ip-address/
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