What is an "IP address"?

What is an "IP address"?

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Well actually, all these different locations on the world wide web can actually all be reduced to numbers. This number is expressed in something called the internet protocol. It's usually a series of four numbers separated by a dot. The URL, the Universe Resource Locator, is translated out there, somewhere in the mysterious world wide web. If you dial up Yahoo.com, there is a resource out there on the internet that converts that request into that series of digits, into that numerical address that is the translation of Yahoo.com.