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What if, instead of running a process-data program on this machine, we want to run it on another machine? No problem. We make a TCP connection to a process-data server on the remote machine. On the local machine, we have generate-data writing to the TCP connection, and consume-data reading from the TCP connection…
Each computer on the Internet has its own public IPv4 address, similar to a phone number: for example, 131.193.178.181. The target of each packet of data is identified by a public IPv4 address.
The sender's ISP, rather than the receiver's ISP, is the always-online post office from which the receiver picks up the message.