The internet is often considered to be an open environment where no one really controls anything.

A company or a person might have control over a particular website,

but in the big scheme of things you can set up whatever websites you want without anyone's permission.

This is mostly true, but not totally true.

If you keep going up the chain of control on the internet, you'll eventually reach the

top where there sits people who hold seven keys. Those keyholders are ultimately

the ones who control the internet. Learn more about the internet's Key Masters on this

episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by the Travel Photography Academy.

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The idea of seven keymasters holding the keys which control the internet

may sound a bit like something out of the Lord of the Rings or maybe a game of

Thrones and I get it but as you'll soon see, it's quite literally true.

There are even ceremonies involved, but it doesn't involve the sacrificing of goats or chickens.

Before we get to the Key Masters, we need a bit of backgrounder on how the internet works.

Let's say you're at the computer and you want to go to a website.

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