| when i try to explain complicated topics to people not familiar with them, i try to simplify instead of going into detail. one thing that worked nicely for me in the past when explaining domains:
full domain name: actual internet address of a company, like a street address of a store.
google.com is equal to streetname.number if you know the number (eg tld) of the house, you just go there directly and enter the store. if you do know the street (google), but do not know the number of the house (.com) you need to stop and ask someone for the way, and this is what google.com is for. usually the big aha effect is that google.com is an address which leads you to a page that allows you to find other addresses. going to google.cn (or whatever country you like) might help too, explaining how google has both .com and .cn and .nz and so on, all different "storefronts" of the same company, catering to different countries. once that is understood, and if it was easily understood, maybe explain how the top bar (in most browsers) can be used for both searching for addresses and to input addresses directly,
then set the default search engine to duckduckgo. hope that helps :) |
Ok, thanks a lot for that, that part might work (I read all the rest but this might be the best foundation) => I might expand based on that - not a new idea, but to make it more explicit and more directly related to what is already known, it could work better than doing the usual abstract monologue which generates glassy eyes. Thank you! :)