Jon and Mel dive into the question of the day: "When I open the weather app on my phone, how do today's weather get my screen, and where did it come from?


Timestamps:


0:00 - Intro


0:18 - Question of the day


1:48 - Defining the endpoints? Client and Server


2:43 - Mental picture for information traveling across internet: Skateboard ramp.  Swimming pool


5:00 - Defining some terms: client and server


5:36 - Defining request and response 


6:28 - Everything is binary


7:53 - Application Layer


8:55 - Physical layer 


10:33 - Defining a 'session’


11:00 - Transport layer. TCP


12:00 - Network layer. IP.


12:44 - Each layer is distinct and independent


14:05 - What type of requests can I make?


16:55 - Looking at the POST and GET requests


18:00 - Packets


20:45 - TCP & IP roles 


21:40 - Each device has its own IP address 


22:40 - Review of the path of a request from client to server


23:40 - Short hops along the path


25:30 - More about packets and network layers


26:30 - Encapsulation


29:00 - Terms for the data at different network layers


29:45 - Real-time routing


31:20 - Internet travel is like note passing in class



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