Let's do an experiment! If you're *not* a professional or habitual programmer, I'd love to hear what you know about what happens between typing a web address like "example.com" into your web browser and actually seeing the page show up. Whatever level of abstraction and verbosity you're comfortable with.
Tech folks: absolutely no making fun of people for being wrong, okay? People are allowed to not know stuff!
Boosts appreciated, but only if you're interested in frivolity 💜
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@noracodes Assuming there's no cache available, the web address you typed (stripped of anything after the first / i think?) gets sent to your configured DNS server, which sends back the IP address associated with that web address, and then your browser sends off a request for the page to that IP address, which then proceeds to serve the page to you
then the browser reads in all the HTML and (insert web programming languages here) and feeds it into its rendering engine which works its magic
For reference on our tech level: we do hardware design, particularly power supplies and analog electronics (lately learning how to do RF stuff), and we actively avoid any programming whenever possible because it sucks, and web/network stuff is *so* far outside our area of understanding that it's just really intimidating and we never want to touch it
-F
