Since you are on this page, you're presumably lost. That's ok. I don't really get all this stuff either. Let's start with some easy stuff.

You're on the Internet. Known to some as a series of tubes, but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. The way you get here is through a device you have at home called a router, which literally does what the name implies--it routes signals to where they need to go to make things go beep. In the 60s and 70s, routers tended to be people-based and would spend their time plugging cables into and out of ports so calls could connect.

Fortunately, we figured out that was dumb and made robots do the job for us. Internet companies, governments, and anyone else with enough money and influence bought huge routers and hooked them all up to talk to each other. Then they convinced us all to go out and buy a router from our ISP of "choice" so we could all send cat pictures to each other seemlessly. We got rid of phones, replaced our phone with our IP address and email, just to ironically end up back at phones again. All of our devices serve, or at least can serve, as a router in some way, and all these little robots talking to each other makes it so you can get lost on some person's home page.

In a way, you could say you've made it to my router. Not my home router of course--that one sucks. I'm mooching of someone else's, also known as a Virtual Private Server. These companies run whole bunch of servers, hook them up on a bulk connection and rent them out for people to run blogs about cats and porn sites.

Precisely speaking, you are in a chrooted web server running on rented virtual machine in a server farm located roughly in New Jersey browsing the "about" directory on the "whereami.html" page.

Less precisely, all that means is you're looking at some files I left in a directory at this address, and paid some people to host for me since local ISPs tend to be ridiculously expensive if you want to do anything besides host some private servers for you and your friends and family.

A helpful tip, CRTL+W will close any webpage you don't like. Not that you wouldn't like this page... you did read all the way here through all that pedantry didn't you?