Remapping the Internet

The internet is composed of computers connected by servers and routers (which are also computers). To find another computer, the internet uses a system of nameservers, DNS domain name system, and IP addresses. It all works as an addressing system to route information.

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Here's a different system.

Components:

1. NameServer - Matches a ComputerName to an InternetAddress. NameServers will operate in much the same way that DNS does. Names will be resolved from left to right.

2. ComputerName - A ComputerName will be written from left to right, starting with the Top Level Domain (TLD). Instead of reading "famousnews.news.com/livenews", names would follow the format "com.news.famousnews/livenews". From left to right a ComputerName would provide more detail. Com would tell your computer to go to the Com NameServer. The Com NameServer would direct you to the Com.news network which would send you to Com.news.famousnews. This could continue until you reach the slash which means the information you want is hosted on that computer. ComputerNames could resolve as far as needed as in "edu.harvard.business.law/documents/2012"

3. InternetAddress - An InternetAddress is also written from left to right. The first number