Understanding Internet Connections: A Simplified View

Your internet connection is basically a massive hallucination. You think you have a direct line to

a website, but it’s actually just an abstraction called a socket. It works two ways.

You have the Client-Server model, where you beg for data and the server decides if you get

it, or Peer-to-Peer, where everyone shares the load like a chaotic group project.

Then there’s the delivery style. TCP is the anxious perfectionist checking every single byte,

while UDP is the chill friend just yeeting data and hoping it arrives. It’s a miracle your

memes actually load.