Protocol Foundations 002: Addressing
<p>Much like we assign addresses to buildings in the physical world, computers must keep track of the location for every piece of data they store. Similarly to physical constructions, smaller building blocks, called bits, are combined to create higher-level structures such as files or web pages. Unlike buildings, though, bits can be easily moved or copied. This means computers must use different addressing schemes for different use cases and ideally navigate frictionlessly between them…</p>
Authors: Mario Havel, Tim Beiko
Part of: Summer of Protocols
ISBN: 9781962872539