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A full address: which method, which computer, which file. The part just before the first single slash is the real destination — the rest can be made to look like anything.

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The drawing that proves the sentence above. It is the same card that is in the book.

Think of it as

house number, street and city — for a page.

For example

A message says your package is waiting at a very long address. Read the bit just before the first single slash — that is where it really goes.

This is one card out of 275.

The hundred words you meet most are free — the whole set, animated, in one file that works with no internet. Volume 1 has all 275 in fifteen chapters, with Staying Safe the largest chapter on purpose.

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