"most humans find it easier to remember words, rather than numbers. if you tell someone to go to they can probably remember that. if you told them to go to 192.0.32.7, they would have a difficult time remembering an ip address. computers process in numbers. dns is the process of translating words into numbers. there is a second translation that takes place. humans think in base 10 numbers. computers process in base 2 numbers. the base 10 ip address 192.0.32.7 in base 2 numbers is 11000000.00000000.00100000.00000111 . what happens if you cut and paste these base 2 numbers into a browser? "