- Tue May 01, 2001 11:00 am
#97674
oO(GIT!!)<P>oO(Canada?? lucky $(£(£*(")_$)%" )<P>OK - IP address - hmm :)<P>Imagine that every computer online at once lives in a big street. Every computer would then be like a house. Each house on a street has a number. This in computing terms is an IP Address - your address on the Internet. <P>Each time u connect to the internet, you are assigned a new IP address, unless you are on a Cable or DSL connection, as they are connected to the internet all the time and very rarely change addresses.<P>Each Internet Provider is allocated a block of addresses. I may be wrong, But i`m assuming Gaspode is with BT Internet. as you will see - his IP address is 62.7.51.62 and mine, taken about 20 minutes later was 62.7.55.28 - the 62.7 will signify BT Internet. Freeserve have their own numbers, as do AOL, and so on.<P>This is how basic online paging systems like ICQ and AOL IM work - they work out your IP Address and send messages to that address.<P>The reason that the IP addresses are shown on this board are many. <P>1 - It looks professional for Chris to have IP addresses from all over the world logging into the board (although he seems to fix that fact single handedly as it is).<P>2 - Most, if not all, ISP`s (Internet Service Providers) will have a log of when such and such a number was allocated to such and such a person (this is why most ISP`s insist you do not caller id hold your number when you call), so that, if someone is up to mischief, they can be traced (Yes Tom - that does mean that the authorities are watching you view the Chaka Demus and Pliers website!).<P>3 - There wasnt anything to go in the bottom right hand corner of the box and it looked prety :)<P>If u want further clarification - Ask Chris the globetrotting webmaster when he returns.<P>oO(Is it too late to ask why Chris travels the world all the time? Maybe we now know where he gets the money for such a kickass website :) )
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