The TL;DR
Houses have street addresses, and computers have IP addresses.
IP addresses are the way that computers on a network know who’s who, just like on your block at home
IP addresses are usually only unique within a local network, but there are tons of networks out there
IP addresses are mostly IPv4 (32 bits), but the internet is outgrowing that standa…
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