An IP address is usually a numerical label assigned to a device in a computer network that uses the internet protocol for communication. IP stands for internet protocol, so IP address is also referred to as an Internet Protocol address. The IP address was designed to allow one computer to communicate with another using the internet.
Today an IP address consist of four numbers, ranging from 0 to 255. This is the numbers that you as a user will see, and they are often stored in text files in this format, but they are used as binary numbers. They were originally defined as a 32-bit number by the designers of the internet protocol, but in 1998 a new system, the IPv6, was standarized. Both the old system, IPv4, and the new system, IPv6, are in use today.
What you are probably most interested in when it comes to IP addresses however, is that it can be used to locate you when you are browsing the internet using geolocation. If you reveal your real IP address to the websites you visits, the webmasters of these website can use that information to find out where you are located, at least down to the location of your internet service provider. There are lots of different types of software than can locate you pretty easily using your IP address, just check out http://www.ip-adress.com/ for instance.
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