• Matt The Horwood
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    5 days ago

    I know, should have just left it. but there is an amazing amount of information already out there

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      5 days ago

      Yes, but that’s not the point.

      ELI5 means Explain Like I’m 5 [ys/o]. It’s not meant to be an info-dump, it’s meant to be a basic explainer for someone who is interested to know about a specific thing, but has no knowledge of the surrounding subject matter.

      Would you point a 5 year old to a wikipedia article and tell them to read up about DNS’s. No, you’d explain it to them in terms they understand.