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Computers communicate with the outside world via specialized hardware. The hardware numbers are engineered to be unique (manufacurer etc.) To bridge the hardware (which changes ) to something symbolic there is a system of numbers. The default number for every computer is 127.0.0.1 and refers to the localhost the machine you are working on.

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