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Stomata

Can you explain DNS to a 5 year old kid?
Asking for a friend 🙂

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Winfried Angele 🇺🇦🇪🇺

@Stomata Unfortunately not, because 5-year-olds nowadays no longer know what a phone book is

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Dźwiedziu

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There is a “Contacts” app/functionality on any mobile phone…
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Kyle Gaywood

@winfried @Stomata I was thinking the same thing haha. Contact list maybe?

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John Kristoff

@Stomata The farmer is the DNS resolver.

Classic Fisher-Price See N Say toy. Pull tab turns the arrow with a picture of a farmer that spins to a random farm animal.
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Random Tux User

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I'll give it my best shot.

DNS like a book that has the addresses to all the websites on the internet. Whenever your browser goes to a site, it checks this book to check the address of the website. Then it visits the website and brings back the content. But since this happens in computers, it happens really quickly.

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Luc

@Stomata It is a list of servers on the internet, so that your computer can ask where to find <example website/app that they know of, like Youtube>. Then it connects there and asks for the content you've tapped on

If they ask how "connecting" works, say that it sends electricity down the right wire (or that it tells the router to do so, if they're aware of that device in the house)

Rate my attempt on a scale from understandable for 1 to 10 years old :D

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