Check out the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375762 or https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Inte

Check out the comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375762 or https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Internet-work https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Internet-work and whenever you see something you don't understand that you want to understand more deeply, Google it. (Wikipedia also has lots of information.) Also, when you make a post the title should relate to the topic of your post rather than being something generic as "simple question". (i.e. it should be something like 'Ask HN: tutorials that explain how the Internet works)'; you can also search this forum at hn.algolia.com.