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when you send out a tweet about our new video card you can't afford or how great the last episode of tech wiki was have you wondered what happens I mean sure we all know that it goes out onto the internet but much like flushing a toilet most people don't know exactly what happens to their chunks of data after they post something so where exactly does it all go well to understand the answer to this question it might help to keep in mind that the Internet is not owned or even governed by any one group of people I said not owned by any one group of people but rather it works as a distributed system made up of lots of smaller computer networks owned by various ISPs universities governments and other organizations that are linked together through what are called peering agreements but Lynas hold on a second if no one's really running the internet then how does it stay working do we even know where it goes there are organizations that help coordinate and direct Internet traffic so that compatibility is maintained everywhere from Ottawa to Oman probably the most well-known of these groups is ICANN which maps IP addresses to Internet domain names so when you punch in let's say Linus tech tips comm and your web browser that actually isn't enough information for your computer to know what website to show you so what happens is your ISP or Internet service provider directs it to a DNS server which matches what you typed to the IP address that corresponds to it so you can connect and keep consuming the awesome videos we create but once you do that then how does the content itself get to your PC one of the Internet's most defining features is that it is packet-switched meaning that all data is broken up into little well packets and then reassembled once it arrives at your computer and while the idea of shattering and then reassembling something every time you need to move it won't make much sense for things like oh I don't know human arms the advantage of this approach for computer data is that it allows each packet to take the most efficient route possible so if everyone in the town next to you where your traffic would have known been routed through start streaming Game of Thrones and exactly the same frickin time congesting any nearby nodes causing some of your much more important My Little Pony packets to slow down the remaining ones can be easily and dynamically rerouted via another path even mid file so your internet speeds stay high and because packets contain in addition to the actual content identification information that ensures they are being sent to the right place and that they can be properly recombined later on normally none of the data ends up as a corrupted jumbled mess either speaking of jumbled messes if you've ever tried to do something as simple as copy a file to an external hard drive on a Mac and then carry it over to a PC and open it you're probably wondering how users on different operating systems on different machines from different parts of the world all manage to use the same internet standards bodies come to the rescue here again they make sure that the same fundamental languages and technologies are used throughout the globe including w3c which is in charge of things like HTML and CSS the languages that your web browser will interpret into something your computer can understand so I hope this helped give you some idea how the world pulls together without a single guiding force to give us this awesome tool for arguing on Twitter and reading half-baked political opinions speaking of things on the internet that are way better than arguing on Twitter fresh books it's designed for freelance workers or small businesses and the whole idea behind it is that instead of spending all of your time drawing up invoices and logging your hours as you move about from place to place working on jobs you spend it doing jobs and getting paid it's an online tool to allow you to get your accounting done quickly while 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