IP address und railway track: was sie gemeinsam haben
- Schritt 1. IP address — ist eine Art von — TCP/IP. Part of IP.
- Schritt 2. TCP/IP — wird verwendet in — Router. IP routing.
- Schritt 3. Router — nutzt — Packet switching. It forwards packets.
- Schritt 4. Packet switching — funktioniert wie — Electrical telegraph. An analogy: telegraph messages were passed from station to station with intermediate storage — a “store and forward” principle similar to packet transmission.
- Schritt 5. Electrical telegraph — wird verwendet in — Time zones. Synchronizing time by telegraph.
- Schritt 6. Time zones — wurde inspiriert von — Railway track. Introduced because of railway timetables.