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How does the internet know where to send you? James May answers explains how you can find him on James May's Q & A!
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[@Timocracy]

The Internet depends on a lot of protocols. I spent a semester in networking and can tell you for a fact that it would be entirely impractical for James May to list and describe every protocol. He covered the basics, and that's about as much as the average viewer will care to remember.

[@tahatwakkal6596]

im genuinely surprised this was uploaded in 1080p back in 2013, well done BBC.

[@terasestHammasratas]

I have heard, that youtube has upgraded the quality on some videos (even if it was uploaded as a 720p video)

[@Vakito227]

0:28 James May, on James May, on a screen, on a screen, on your screen :3

[@hi-fidude6670]

rip hammond. died of getting rekt. will be missed

[@jdog1949]

CaddyPro'59 he died Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@caboosemcgrief]

i was not expecting such savagery

[@FriedEgg101]

"Doctor Doctor" jokes are a genre of jokes I had completely forgotten about until now lol.

[@TheLeekSoup]

Sometimes I feel like I only watch these videos for this guy's voice.

[@ThiccBrows]

I laughed so hard at the Richard Hammond jab. James May is by far my favorite person on this channel.

[@Yukiyukiyukichi]

the video editing on head squeeze is one of the best I see on KZbin

[@max010113]

I just realized, I think they showed this in my IT lesson last year, pretty cool

[@danamsa]

MaxVidyStudios they did it in my class, and there’s a homework on it so I’m here again 😄

[@Taino21]

Also James May thanks so so much for being detailed. I appreciate that. Cause I like to be told everything like a child when I dont know anything about the subject. Its a very good way to teach.

[@MauricioAlsinaLee]

First Clarkson and now Hamster, that was great. But really, this video is the best Head Squeeze video I've seen this far. My congratulations to you people.

[@parillo12]

SLENDER GOT A JOB AS A TELEPHONE OPERATOR AHAHAHAH 2:50

[@BlackMagixFTW]

03:40 Loving the reference there :P

[@xandertheprofit271]

0:22 nah mate I'm watching this on a stone

[@rmartin1230]

Love what you are doing here ;) I found some MUCH needed info. Thank you for putting it out there!!!

[@Scottagram]

QUT crew comin' through

[@MrBigRedRanga]

Classic scoot thing to say haha to be fair the video doesn't have much on "the warriors of the net" :p

[@February54]

Underwater tunnel is easy - they make tunnel sections on land, then sink them, so when they land on the "ground", they align to the tunnel shape. Then they just seal it up, and suck the water out.

[@micahgrauel8770]

I love this. this man gets, and keeps, you interested.

[@makeanotherleftturn]

On February 3, 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in the U.S., in order to pay for its war. Massachusetts was a truly pioneering colony when it came to money. They were also the first to mint their own silver coins in 1652, despite a British law against it. The paper money created in 1690 was called a bill of credit, and represented the colony's obligation to the soldiers. The soldiers could spend/trade the colony's IOU just like silver and gold coins.

[@colbertkid1]

I'd rather watch him drive cars or make houses out of legos

[@lordprismarine9641]

I eat cheese

[@davidchapm]

racecar backwards is still racecar

[@cheesebugergurl]

Cluck cluck CLUCK CLUck

[@danamsa]

The actual answer to the title starts at 3:13

[@AndrewMeyer]

It means your connection is encrypted using a public/private key encryption technique, and that a trusted third party server has verified via a SSL certificate that you really are connected the website that you think you're connected to, and not some other server. This stuff is insanely complicated, we're going to need a lot more than one video to explain it. ;)

[@desertfox2020]

The movie "Rain Man" is about a sevant with an incredible ability to remember things.

[@Khodrism]

Hilarious how he can just make fun of Hammond!

[@supernick345]

0:07 - Challenge Accepted

[@hewanderedalone324]

Glad I finally installed my AOL disk I got in the mail from 1995. This internet is great. The dial tone takes a little getting used to though.

[@Vakito227]

0:25 A screen.....on a screen......on a screen. Screen-ception-ception?

[@wakomaniac45]

LOL because James may says so. I click the subscribe button for every video he does here

[@hedgehog3180]

Already knew this just wanted james may to explain it

[@rollingpuck]

James May is this generations James Burke. Keep on informing us in a grown up smart persons way. Thanks, James.

[@EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME]

god i miss the old VHS tapes. they were the best

[@WildNorWester]

Um, IP addresses have 12 digits, not 11 - four sets of three.

[@gtx970videos3]

***** An ipv4 address can be as small as 4 digits actually it can range from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255

[@GraveUypo]

+gtx970videos it's always 12. 0.0.0.0 is actually 000.000.000.000 10.1.1.1 is actually 010.001.001.001

[@mrrdelorenzi8478]

But not 10^12. It is 2^32 ≈ 4×10^9

[@relaxingrainsounds6367]

Listen here u monghole theres 11 digits look it up b4 u start chattin fam . #Yeet

[@ALLTHEDRUGSFORCREATIVITY]

I’m so sad one year ago someone didn’t reply because this was made 6 years ago the first reply 5 then 4, 4 again and 2

[@TheKaneDestroyer]

I've just realised. You only need to subscribe once. They tell you to subscribe on every video so you can click the subscribe button to watch all the videos on your favourite channel, otherwise you'd never be able to see it again.

[@Fraxxxi]

I am looking at the individual frames printed out with subtitles, conveniently stored in four ring binders.

[@jakobe328]

i do, i live in Warnbro (near Rockingham, also kinda close to mandurah if you dont know where that is google it)

[@FattyGood]

I meant 12 numbers as in total of 12 numbers. only 1-254 can be used in the host bits while 0 and 255 are reserved for network address and broadcast address.

[@craigneeson8366]

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure, it just means that regular "internet transmissions" are encrypted while they are being sent to you, you will often see paypal, ebay and some parts of facebook encrypted with h.t.t.p.s to make it difficult for hackers to steal your personal data. Hope this helped :D

[@derangedband]

the mention of hammond was so cheeky! it had me laughing for ages xD these are brilliant! a good fix whilst im waiting for more Man Lab ^_^

[@Raskoflinko]

2:50 That either reminds me of the Slenderman or Kamaji from Spirited Away :P

[@oliviagenco6634]

His voice is so relaxing.

[@pixelsoul]

That is not correct. You don't "share" the IP address, rather a DHCP server issues an IP address to your device from an available pool of IP addresses that it keeps. When the IP address expires it is either renewed or it goes back into the pool of available addresses which at that time may get issued to another device upon request. TCP/IP for Dummies is a really good book to read up on basics of networking.

[@SteakBarker]

You got my subscribe, but only because i love James May, and he made a joke about Richard Hammond.

[@jakobe328]

most sections are pre-made and dropped down into the water, they are just moved into place by dive teams and such

[@devfuse]

Loving the Richard Hammond joke!

[@TheGeordish]

I have had a look and I can't find any solid prof that it is either one, so I think you are right.

[@cyruzcyruz]

Great visuals again!

[@jim191185]

I hope I get to use that internet thing one day, it looks like fun.

[@LittleBigChina]

Technically, the IP is a 32-bit field, which is conveniently converted into four batches of 8-bits, or octets. Each octet is then converted (for ease of use by us puny humans) into decimal, and each field could vary from one digit to three digits (0-255). So, there could be anything from four digits in an IP address up to twelve - but I agree with you - eleven is not 'the' answer to how many digits in an IP address. That's lazy on Captain Slows part.

[@TheGeordish]

TCP is Transmission Control Protocol not Transfer Control Protocol. Great video!

[@u33frame]

5:19 is the coolest part

[@DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables]

Love the dig at Richard Hammond in this video. XD

[@jackdavies5148]

You have made a bit of a mistake... Although there are no dejure standards regarding Protocol Data Unit (PDU) descriptors at the various stages of encapsulation/ decapsulation, the defacto descriptor of a TCP PDU is 'Segment'.

[@davehorner2845]

The graphics are pretty brilliant on this one!

[@fadetounforgiven]

Wow, I found a mistake... IPv4 needs up to 12 digits to express an IP address (in decimal), not just eleven. Also, the same number may express two or more IP addresses because there are periods to care about. Thus, 11.11.11.11 and 111.1.1.111 have the same digits but are different IP's. I loved the salt pot metaphore, though inexact an incomplete, but beautiful and good enough, but this thing with IP's is quite important.

[@axem.8338]

Get James May back!!!

[@Krofzky]

This must be his dream. Explaining things to people who are listening

[@Taino21]

I had this question before. But never asked it. But im so happy that u did. Thanks so very much. I am sort of very very bad with all this technology. I dont know much about it.

[@HakitoCZ]

Make a shirt with you own on it. Achievement unlocked.

[@stevehazelton6878]

Anyone else notice that at the 2 minute mark the screen starts tilting back and forth?

[@danamsa]

Steve Hazelton Yh i think it’s meant to do that

[@IsmailPbx]

day before computer science gcse, extremely helpful

[@ArborealOreo]

Yeah, I'd like to know about underwater tunnels and structures. Wouldn't the ground sink in once the tunnel is dug up?

[@ianclark001]

Thought this was a really well explained answer. Sure the thing about cache servers was perhaps a bit much at the beginning, but then you don't get trolls (such as myself) picking you up about it. Also, I suppose you forgot to mention that I don't simply connect to B directly, but through C, D and E etc - again, maybe a bit much!

[@mikedftv]

thats why they put reinforced concrete in it. has no one ever seen a picture of an actual tunnel before?

[@stephen2876]

The World Wide Inter-Web can tell me everything I ever needed to know about Richard Hammond. It tells me, for example, that R.H. was born in a mythical place, called Solihull, and that he was born in the same year that Apollo 11 didn't land on the Moon. But this is all quite clearly bunk because R.H. hasn't got a grey hair on his head, and those teeth are far too white...

[@BryonLape]

They more you learn about TCP/IP and the OSI layers, the more amazing the Internet is as quick as it is.

[@man_on_wheelz]

most importantly, the engine and transmission, I bet that would entertain some viewers, I bet a lot of people don't know there are a bunch of mini explosions going off under their hoods

[@Izzie2445]

Thanks

[@R7Mok]

GOT A QUESTION!!! How do people build underwater tunnels/build a bridge that stretches over the sea?!

[@Antworkk]

I'm counting this as revision for my computing exam

[@gadgetwhore2]

I've seen the US version (being American) a few times and the UK version is waaayyy better. Better cars, better guests, even the banter is better. and despite a strange taste in music to drive to, the Stig.

[@saturnxvi8737]

Please do Q&A on how steath planes work?????

[@thomasson951211]

Last Week: Clarkson This Week: Hammond Next Week: Stig, maybe...

[@7GGonzalez]

Transmission and Transfer mean the same thing so it doesn't really matter. Some people say transmission others say transfer, doesn't really matter.

[@blossomz8253]

James you bring me back to the computer networking class,fall asleep

[@man_on_wheelz]

lol I seen the one where Hammond went to a nascar event in the US and nobody knew who he was

[@ecorico22]

@2:51 kamaji the boiler mans first job

[@jarnMod]

I'm pretty sure RFC documents call TCP = transmission control protocol is that transfer control protocol at 4:25 a misreading?

[@TheBenenene10]

2:50 this realy creeps me out

[@omglawld]

Or you can search for "hamster eating cardboards", so you'll find tons of pictures with Hammond.

[@benJ432]

about time you got your own back on Richard and Jeremy

[@ComputersAreRealCool]

How are youtube videos played? Does it download a video then play it, or does it ask for the information frame by frame wile you are playing it?

[@razorlikeblue]

Better, less obvious reference. You win.

[@zer001]

Wow, well done!

[@ayashmaxx]

Good work. .....

[@wufongtanwufong5579]

I got about half way through this video and realized i don't give enough of a shit about how the internet works to watch the other half

[@Timocracy]

Hammond was a surprise though!

[@gadgetwhore2]

IP address is 4 numbers separated by dots. each number is 8 bits for a total of 32 bits. each number can be from 0-255. total number of digits in address not a set number, could be 9, 10, 11, 12. These numbers are then converted to binary to be read by the tubes. then there's IPv6...

[@debbiethemadbee]

Also as it warns you if you don't see that especially when you click on an email link then the link will be a spam link, normally with the aim to steal your personal info such as credit card details.

[@musandiaye9231]

Oh I like James!

[@Izzie2445]

Thanks, it really did help! :DD

[@MikeDragon]

MAY 9000... O God, I lost it at that. XD

[@jakobe328]

yes

[@Nezza80]

Bug Bear. It's; DNS: Domain Name System (Server) TCP: Transmission Control Protocol

[@CoolDudeClem]

My internet allways works perfectly ... untill I start browsing!

[@Izzie2445]

Thank u :)

[@Jordie389]

I don't know about you guys. But I am watching the VCR version

[@Natatattatification]

Thank god he's finally changed his shirt

[@jessechen998]

You missed out ospf, eigrp, bgp, rip, and IS-IS. :P

[@shr229850517]

I went on the internet , and i found this.

[@lontongtepungroti2777]

what a really nice channel bro