Alright, time to delve into my memory banks to post these two entries of the past, which I apparently never did. The sensor walk I wrote in my sketchbook, but it seemed to have never made its way onto the blog. For that, I'm gonna blame the sketchbook. It should have transcribed itself.
Anyway, I just listed the different sensors I saw: streetlights that automatically go on at light, and sometimes turn off when I walk under them at night when it's spooky; parking gates that activate once you submit a parking ticket, door locks that keep out bad peoples, hearing aids, ear buds, cell phones, walk signs, cash registers, printers, copiers, vending machines... I noticed most sensors I saw fell under two categories. First were the ones that allowed humans to access their daily lives, whether it be assisting them with functioning, like the ear buds, or allowing, or disallowing them access to certain places, like all the door sensors. The other function was the distribution of goods, paying a machine to provide you a service, like a printer or a vending machine.
Alright, and now, the stupid description about how something commonplace but complicated works; I'm pretty sure I posted this way back when, but I can't be bothered to look.
The Internet consists of a series of electronic impulses connecting a series of computers. Each connection has an Internet protocol, or IP, which allows access to certain other bits of information provided by other computers, whether that be websites, files, or other information. Every site is hosted by a server, and your IP allows you to get to that site.
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