Contemporary Examples. 1  Some of the images are very poignant, like the one of a boy searching for lice in his clothes. 2  If you have dead bodies, pestilence, lice, with a 90 temperature--mosquitoes, flies--then you have serious problems. 3  All of us become covered in lice and insects, which became maddening.
'IP' stands for Internet Protocol-it decribes the way information is sent and received over the Internet. An IP number is a 32 bit number assigned to any device that wishes to communicate over the Internet. Typically the IP number is represented as a set of four numbers in the range 0-255 - an address is usually written as these four numbers separated by dots. It can also be shown as one big number in decimal or hexadecimal.
A network address, or IP address, is a series of numbers that a computer or other device uses to connect to a network, like the internet. An example of an IP (or network) address would be 192.168.1.100. IP addresses are individual and differ between devices and networks. An IP address is separated into two parts. The first part is the network address, which is the first three series of numbers (192.168.1 as shown in the example.) The last number or series of numbers (100 in the shown example) is the host address.