Okay kiddo, let's imagine you have a bunch of toys that you want to share with your friends. You need a way to get the toys from your house to your friends' houses where they can play with them. You could ask your parents to drive you and your toys to each of your friends' houses, but that would be a lot of work and take up a lot of time.
Now, imagine instead of toys, we're talking about information. Information is things like books, videos, music, and even websites. It's important that people can share this information because it can help them learn and have fun.
So, how do we share information without needing to physically transport it everywhere? That's where free information infrastructure comes in. This is like a big network of roads that the information can travel on. It's made up of things like cables, wireless signals, and servers (which are like big computers that store and share the information).
Just like how we need roads for cars to travel on, we need this infrastructure for information to travel on. Without it, we couldn't easily share things like videos, music, or websites with people who aren't right beside us.
Now, you might be thinking, "If we need this infrastructure, why is it called 'free'?" Well, free here doesn't mean you don't have to pay for it. It means that anyone can use it to share information, no matter who they are or what they want to share. So, just like how you can share your toys with anyone you want, people can share information with anyone they want to through this free information infrastructure.
That's the basic idea, kiddo. Free information infrastructure is like a big network of roads that our information travels on, so we can easily share it with anyone around the world.