That at least gives us a place to start. [Because she's pretty sure Thorne will jump in and out of this conversation - it's less stressful than the one about Stockholm syndrome.]

Computers were originally designed to do a lot of math really fast, and it turns out when you have that much math going on you can use it to do all kinds of stuff - play games like the stuff in the arcades, write things down, store your pictures, the possibilities are pretty much endless. The Internet is a network that lets computers share all that stuff with each other across long distances.

What Jules and I just set up is similar, but the network only works within Liminal Space, so it's an intranet. Getting actual internet access going in here would take dimensional hole-punching I'm not sure even our hosts could manage, or if they can they don't see why we'd want them to.