Week 7 Readings - How Internet Infrastructure Works

I thought this article was very well written. I never knew why IP addresses are considered 32 bit numbers until I read this. This article made a complicated subject easy to understand, and interesting, too. Like the author, it amazes me how powerful the system is behind the scenes, but I also find it amazing at the initiative taken by entities such as the University of Wisconsin to create the DNS system, and how quickly these concepts are accepted world wide.