What is VPN?

Now simple definition would be VPN is Virtual Private Network, but what does that mean? basically it allows a user to browser the internet a bit more safely. What it does So VPN allows user to access contents of say a website they don't have access to or if you don't trust the internet itself it helps you to browser the internet without giving away your IP address How it works Now assume you want to search a website called us_only_website.com. now if you try to search it then you will not be abl