You may also be thinking "Okay, but I don't ever indicate the IP address of anything I want to connect to, like a website. I just type in the website name itself". You can imagine that trying to remember billions of IP addresses is difficult - that's where a service called "Domain Name Service" (DNS) comes into play. DNS, at its core, translates IP addresses to names (kind of similar to how a phone book works). DNS is a huge technology of its own that I won't go into here, but may later!
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