Internet
The plumbing behind everything online.
Internet
Why do websites need cookies?
The web was designed to forget you between every click, so a cookie is the note the site hands you to carry back, because it has no other way to know you are the same person.
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Why does Wi-Fi get slower through walls?
Walls absorb and reflect part of the radio signal, and rather than simply arriving quieter, a weakened signal makes your router switch to a slower, more repetitive way of encoding data so it can still be understood.
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Why do websites have names instead of numbers?
Machines route by number, people remember words, and the domain name system is the enormous distributed directory that translates between the two on every click.
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