How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes

[EastCoastRiot]

say you make a website is it saved on your isp's server?

[YesIDidYourMom]

So, when I visit a porn site, it's giving my computer its packets? But what if the site has some contagious STD! Its packets could infect my computer! :(

[youtubian2500]

I think it would've been worth mentioning the huge fiber optic cables bundled in a huge tube on the ocean floor connecting the western continent with the east.

It's funny because it sounds like such a crude solution, when it's actually the best solution, considering the options.

[purplehaze2250]

so wait, where are the tubes?

[darccole]

What is sopa is it sope :D cause I need some explain

[KaleemNiz]

Greate Man...!

[mimarcu]

You would have to shell out allot of cash to be connected directly to the Internet or have access to faster speeds. Also fiber optics and cable are faster than satellite.

[AKSoapy29]

I want a direct link to the Internet so uploading video to YouTube would be faster.

[ErectopiaServer]

@AKSoapy29 impossible :P

[SteakOfAnger]

How deep is the wire? How do you get on the internet in the middle of nowhere?

[Mr2018TV]

why do we use internet over phone lines to satellite would they be any benefits over satellite

[bsblthrwr88]

So what about people who run servers from their homes? Are those servers bypassing the ISP and connecting straight to the internet?

[sauceyboy]

Thanks Aaron, has your brother Hepa uploaded any videos lately?

[CROCOJAW47FILMS]

@sauceyboy: Agh, that was a really bad pun.

Still moderately funny though...

[DarrenConnelly]

nice video!

[AnonymousElder]

This is not making sence, how come i can make my computer a server on minecraft?

[Deicidead]

@AnonymousElder

I think you confused two different things, an application server with an internet provider.

[drew2794]

Why are your routers square? Everyone knows that routers look like hockey pucks!

[thedudewhoiskickass]

@SHILOHH8R Sopa

[AaronTitus]

@thedudewhoiskickass ...SOPA is dead.

[thedudewhoiskickass]

@AaronTitus im sopa moahahahahahahaha

but It seems quite clear to a lot when 7970, according to the same page, drag the "System wattages with GPU in FULL Stress = 355W" while running rounds around the GTX 580 and also have time to eat lunch, walking the dog and water the plants in between.

[SHILOHH8R]

@thedudewhoiskickass lmfao @ sopa

[tmarpe]

internet is a wire or a protocol?

[AaronTitus]

@tmarpe The Internet is a wire. Protocols are like languages computers use to communicate over the wires.

[SHILOHH8R]

WHERE DOES THE LINE COME FROM???

[AaronTitus]

@SHILOHH8R Mostly private companies and telcos like AT&T, for example.

[SHILOHH8R]

@AaronTitus where does their wire come from?

[MirackiMiracky]

Aaron, did you do the voice for Microsoft Sam?

[AaronTitus]

@MirackiMiracky Ha! Nope. But let me know if you want me to do any voice-over work for you.

[wildhorse1986]

You didn't explain DNS servers ;)

[AaronTitus]

@wildhorse1986 You're right. DNS is its own discussion. I did mention the concept of naming servers (IP address vs. "google.com"), but wanted to keep it straight-forward.

[wildhorse1986]

@AaronTitus Makes sense. :)

[SalahAlsunaidi]

thanks Aaron Titus

[AaronTitus]

@SalahAlsunaidi My pleasure. Didn't expect that this would get so much play.

[McBishop02]

Like if you entered one of the example ip address into your web browser only to find out nothing happened!

[XboxGamerKidd]

@816bigbear dont ya mean ctrl w

[Debinator307]

I wanna learn how life works in '10.

[AaronTitus]

@Debinator307 Good luck with that. Let me know what you find out.

[BLUELASERPOINTER]

Is there away I can conect directly to the Internet

[XboxGamerKidd]

@BLUELASERPOINTER yeah i wanna know if there is a way to directly conect to the internet

[lorderon84]

great explanation!



[AaronTitus]

@lorderon84 Thanks.

[TICTaCSMAK]

i thought this would be funny :(

[mandaltby]

I found this video awesome Erin Titus, All hail Titus Maximus

[GlupGlup1998]

Me and my friends are studding this in our high school in Spain. It´s a stupid thing to study -.-

[emmobinda]

you are far by all means

[RKDisDumb]

By far the best video on this subject!

[AaronTitus]

@RKDisDumb Thanks for the compliment. Glad you found it helpful.

[MultiIaccept]

@AaronTitus Why can't i connect to internet without an ISP?

[lukashcfc]

Wrong, the internet is wizardry

[booMexe]

bro .!. suck it .!. my volume was in 50% and when u started to talk you scared me :(

[totopoo123]

me no understands this black magic.

[soodamncolddisabled]

@totopoo123  LOL !

[carboy48]

Ctrl+W enables a special switch in your computer that makes the internet go faster (credit to 816bigbear)

[KingDragon75]

Ok i got a five minutes of learning and i will thank you Intel core i5 proccesor rules

[mrIpodmagic]

this was really interesting!! thanks for uploading this video!!

[Snipermansnipedu]

so basically if i dig up the wire i can destroy the internet or get free internet?

[hippiechickie18]

@Snipermansnipedu no, it is like a web. if get rid of one connection, the rest still stays together. you'll have to dedicate your life to digging if you want to get anywhere near achieving that.

[Juilkca]

@Snipermansnipedu Yep, if you dig up your wire, you can destroy YOUR internet. Try it. It's fun.

[BurritoBazooka]

@Snipermansnipedu yeah, but you'll probably get arrested. A woman in Georgia, Europe, did by accident and disabled Armenia's internet for half a day.

online.wsj com/article/SB1000142405274870­4630004576249013084603344.html

Put a dot between "wsj" and "com"

[Fetcha200]

@Snipermansnipedu I'll join you.

*1 week later*

*This Account Has Been Terminated*

[wikitay]

It helps me a lot. Thx, well done~

[shantanurajpatil]

good thanks

[kumaresan29]

its really helpfull thanks...



[boarding5401]

Don't listen to "816bigbear" unless you want your computer to self-destruct.

[twilli811]

That is a exampl of a quick internet lesson

[Erde04]

Still wrong missing allot of components that make up the "Internet" actually the word "Internet" was simply made to name the whole process of how you connect from one client to another even servers are "Clients" there no server or computer directly connected tot he internet since the internet isn't a thing.

[gyro71]

@Erde04 nah your wrong there, the internet is essentially a huge computer network, and any device with a public IP address is connected directly to the internet

[Erde04]

@gyro71 Sorry to say but your wrong the internet isn't a "thing" its simply the term used to describe the whole network, your right in the sense that its just one huge network but nothing is directly connected to this network as you still have to pass threw many components. Did you know there are 7 Root DNS server in the world all of witch are controlled by the united states and all responsible for identifying names "ex: Youtube com" Remove any website name from one and that site is gone forever

[c4ke333ter2]

The internet isn't just something you dump things on, the internet is tubes

[Eushawn20]

thanks

[Zaid200able]

thax real;y helped



[alitou001]

great video.

[thebluecat343]

Quick Press "Ctrl+Delete+Alt" it's a sick mod

[thebluecat343]

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[thebluecat343]

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[thebluecat343]

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[gabyblabla74]

I just decided that I had to understand how the internet works. THANK YOUUUUUUU :D

[leisurelydinner]

Could you bypass the ISP and connect your computer directly into the internet giving you free access?

[johnny111666]

@leisurelydinner Yes; no. You could connect your computer "directly" to the Internet. I assume by directly you mean to a tier 1 network. In this case you wouldn't be paying an ISP, but "peering", building connections to other computers on the network (usually fibre optic cables), which is usually a huge cost.

[HamsterAtDawn]

The internet is not a fuzzy cloud. It's not something you just dump something on...

[standinstann]

IT'S A SERIES OF TUBES!

[grThetrojan01gr]

the internet... is TUBES!

[misy49]

does anyone know who else uses this style? That is, paper on whiteboard?

[her209]

This is wrong. The Internet is not "a wire buried in the ground". Its a bunch of networks interconnected to each other using TCP/IP as the communication protocol with BGP as the routing protocol.

[dubya13207]

and what allows those protocols to work?

[grThetrojan01gr]

@dubya13207 certain software that operates hardware concerning networking. (software in your PC, in your router etc.). eg. the operating system of your computer, your router's software...

[dubya13207]

@grThetrojan01gr sorry my question was actually @her209...a question in response to "this is wrong". the point of the post was the fact that TCP/IP isn't actually THE INTERNET but rather something more like...the vehicles/regulations by which we navigate the internet. the "wire" analogy is VERY accurate to explain exactly what physical object best represents the internet as an idea :)

[Luisxzxz1]

@her209 then why did u look this video up if u already knew what the internet was??

[RandomDirectors]

I will never complain about the internet being slow ever again in my life.

It is so fast I can put my head around it. I am seriously mindfucked by such a simple video.

[RandomDirectors]

I clicked like...

My computer send a packet to my router which contacted the telephone exchange line which went to my ISP which is connected to the internet which located the youtube server which located and edited the files on its system and then replied back travelling all the way back through the same route which was noted down on a list created as it made its way to youtube.

So it came back to my PC and the the youtube server let me know you know how 67 likes.

All in under 1 sec

[N4tush]

nice, thanks

[ArtFoodPhilosophy]

Extremely clear explanation that makes it understandable for anyone. Thank you!

[Vix847]

That was wonderfully informative.

[bmxstreetwill]

this is the best video so far

[insensitiveclod]

I love the visual part of this presentation; but i must point out some flaws here.

The one that sticks , however, is the part at the end where it's explained that each 'router' adds it's own 'layer' or 'wrapper' around the packet on it's way, containing that router's IP-address. And , going back, these layers are stripped off again.

This is false. Routers use a different mechanism to figure out where the packet has to go. The author is confused with so-called 'protocol-layers' ..

[asda110knm]

Really nice and helpful tutorial! :) Thank you!

[Tsk221]

i really like turtorials like this one. Simple and easy to understand. This helped me to finally understand the internet :) Im going for electricity now :D see ya

[joncortese]

thanks man. And smokenfly! their are huge wires under the ocean that connect diffrent contenents. how do u think u call people in other nations.

[empireravenshadow5]

wow, this musta taken a lot of effort to produce

[smokenfly514]

If the Internet is basically a wire, then how am I able to send and email to someone in Europe from Canada, or access a website hosted in China? (America and Asia are not connected, therefore there are no wires running between them).

[firefucker110]

@smokenfly514: there are cables on the ocean ground connecting the continents....

[Sanvarlan]

@smokenfly514 I think when he says "wire", he means more to accentuate the "connectivity" that the the internet represents. He further expresses the myriad of ways this connectivity is manifested literally by "fiber optics, copper, satellite or cellphone networks". There are however large wires that travel under the ocean called Transatlantic telecommunications cables and/or Submarine communications cables in addition to massive satellite dishes for global connectivity.

~Tse

[smokenfly514]

@Sanvarlan Thanks a lot, that's really helpful

[iamdozenist]

Correctly and Funny

[OKGrannyPeg]

Greatly informative vides.  Good job.

[tefade2009]

EXELLENT VERY NICE

[elinackerman]

So, how CAN you connect to the internet directly?

[daganliberal]

Well thanks for showing us a 30 second introduction telling us what we are watching...because we didn't know...even though it was in the title >:O

[jeromine1174]

VERY NICE AARON..............THANKS

[artistphilosopher]

thanks Aaron!

[kylemorean]

I am tech teacher and this video has been extremely helpful for my students to make sense of the Internet. Thank you.

[myradioheadmind]

This was very helpful. Best explination I've seen so far too.

[AeroMagico]

Best video I've seen so far. Great work!

[ieatsynthesizers]

pretty good sir! i like that tid bit about osi layers at the end

[Jeancamenzuli]

amazing vid :)

[medicaldud]

You are VERY smart.

Ur baby is in my prayers.