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This is awesome, a long time ago I had a series of conversations with a friend who took the time to help me connect the dots all the way from "why are magnets bad for computers?" to the Internet, mapping everything in between. Very nice of you to share your gift with the rest of this, I definitely have some family members who will enjoy it.

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So glad you enjoyed it! :) Would love to know any parts you'd like to see further expanded or ways this could be improved.

This is really well done. :) Textbook hierarchical explanation.

I had a conversation with some family members recently in which I explained (in much less detail) how the web works, and I found that they were having trouble grasping exactly what web pages are.

After some hemming and hawing, I was finally able to construct a simple analogy that rang true with them: web pages are files a lot like Microsoft Word documents, the major difference being that you usually use one particular kind of program to read them (browsers) and another kind of program to create them, whereas with Word, the reader and viewer are the same thing.

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