Imagine this, my love…One morning, you wake up, your computer is ready, the network is running, but there’s only one gateway to the internet.All the devices in your home — computers, phones, IoT gadgets — want to send messages to the outside world at the same time. You don’t want to lose any packets, and […]
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Imagine, my love… your computer is trying to connect to the internet, but it just won’t. You’re probably hitting the modem saying, “The modem is broken!” (classic Turkish method 😅), while the innocent hero, the NIC, might just be sulking at you. NIC, or Network Interface Card, is the gateway of your computer to the […]
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Imagine, my love… You’re at home, scrolling through TikTok on your phone, your brother is in his room playing an online game 🎮, your mom is watching a börek recipe on YouTube 🥟, and your dad is streaming a documentary on Netflix 🦁. And do you know who’s managing all this traffic? The router! The […]
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💻📡 “Who am I? A device without an IP… but not alone!” 🎬 Scene 1: The Awakening of a DeviceMorning breaks…The laptop opens its eyes (a.k.a. BIOS finishes), the operating system wakes up…And the first thing it does?“Is there LAN, LAN?!” 😄As a newly awakened device, it has one concern:“Where is my IP address?? Who […]
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