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Whenever any application in one computer sends data to another application of a different computer then it sends using IP Address and MAC Address but how does our computer know that this data is for a specific application and this data is sent by any specific application? There comes the concept of Port. For instance, imagine your MAC Address or IP Address as the PIN code of the nearest Post Office and your house address as a Port. Whenever any parcel is sent to you it gets received by the nearest post office and then it is identified by your address where to deliver that parcel. Similarly in a computer data is first received using their IP or MAC address then it is delivered to the application whose port number is with the data packets. Port is a logical address of a 16-bit unsigned integer that is allotted to every application on the computer that uses the internet to send or receive data Now every time any application sends any data, it is identified by the port that which the app...

  Origin Cricket is believed to have begun possibly as  early  as the 13th century as a game in which country  boys bowled at a tree stump or at the hurdle gate into a sheep pen. This gate consisted of two uprights and a crossbar resting on the slotted tops; the crossbar was called a   bail   and the entire gate a   wicket . The fact that the bail could be dislodged when the wicket was struck made this preferable to the   stump , which name was later applied to the hurdle uprights. Early manuscripts differ about the size of the wicket, which   acquired   a third stump in the 1770s, but by 1706 the pitch—the area between the wickets—was 22 yards long. The  ball , once presumably a stone, has remained much the same since the 17th century. Its modern weight of between 5.5 and 5.75 ounces (156 and 163 grams) was established in 1774. The primitive  bat  was no doubt a shaped branch of a tree, resembling a modern hockey stick bu...