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[ELI5G] People keep talking about "the internet". What's that?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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Explain Like I'm 5 (Goblins in a Trench Coat)
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You've explained it to a 5-year-old, now explain it to a bunch of small green maniacs!
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it's a bunch of goblins too lazy to speak directly, so to speak to a far away place they use metal machines that can speak louder, but they speak through a chain of metal and glass tubes, basically, the internet is a series of tubes