DNS (Domain Name Service) makes it easier for you to remember what you’re looking for on the internet. If you’re unfamiliar with what DNS is and how it works there is a great example that I will continue to lay out for you! Pick up your phone and without turning it on, name a person you like to call and talk to. Get that person in your head, visualize them, think about all the good times you’ve had, wonderful conversations you’ve had, great laughs, parties you’ve been to together, life changing memorable moments and then ask yourself, “what is this persons phone number?” If you can’t answer then you’re a normal person in my opinion.
You don’t know their number but you know their name, so you can pull up your contact list, search for their name and press dial. Did you even for a moment consider looking at the number to try and remember it… the answer is no. Why would you? Then you would need to start remembering everyone’s phone number and how many do you have in total in your contact list? If the answer is more than 5, well, I wouldn’t want to remember more than 5 phone numbers. We would do that back in the 80’s, 90’s, and then we had to learn two numbers per person, phone and/or pager, those were seriously the dark days of technology, the closest thing you had to a DNS server was a rolodex.
Now we don’t care, we go on the internet, type “google.com” and don’t even think about the 12-32 possible numbers and letters required to make a connection just to Google’s website alone. That is what DNS does, it turns a name request into numbers so you don’t have to remember the numbers. One of the best innovations of our time, now I have more room in my brain to remember more important things like what the current meta build is in League of Legends or what I need to do to beat Minecraft.
That is my explanation into what DNS is and what it does. Has this helped you at all with understanding one more piece of the internet and how it works?
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