Last modified January 4, 2001. The World Wide Web is a service of the Internet. It is not the Internet. Communication protocol of the Internet. Unique physical address on the Internet.
Every host has a different address.
Each byte is one number. 166.122.70.79 is an address in the Computer Lab. No other machine in the World has this address. Networking equipment that stores and forwards data packets from one LAN or WAN to another. Routers keep track of addresses and send Internet packets to their intermediate and final destinations.