Hi Steemmates!
Let's talk about how Tor Network works, there are technical components that are going
to be missing, but they are omitted for educational purposes, so when you're on the
internet, you're usually connecting sever to server, but when you're on the
Tor network you're actually connecting to other people's computer, which are called nodes
or relays, now to become a node or relay, you just have to have the ability to run Tor traffic
and the process of connecting to Tor would look something like this:
Node is a connection point that can receive, create, store or send data along distributed network routes. Each network node - whether it's an endpoint for data transmissions or a redistribution point - has either a programmed or engineered capability to recognise, process and forward transmissions to other network nodes.
Source
You still have to connect your internet service provider, but it would first take you to a Tor relay lists, where it get a list of all the active nodes out there, in the whole entire world, that you can connect to securely, it then will connect you to that first node or a middle node and then we connect to the next node, which is a middle node and then it would finally connects you to an exit node after the exit node it would connect you to the website destination and that would finish it's path. As you can see, the line, is to indicate that the connection is secure and encrypted. Each node only knows enough information to send it to the next destination, but doesn't know exactly what it's saying. Every time your connection enters a node, it changes information, so it hides, who you are.
